DSGN08104 2024 Interior Architecture Studio Office: Spaces for All
In this module, students engage as practitioners in a simulated Interior Architecture Office, responding to a design brief, client needs and an existing building in the context of sustainability and social inclusion. Students engage in a design project that develops a clear understanding of user/ client's requirements, taking the project from initial stages through to specification, costing and production drawings. This module affords students who have not secured a work placement an opportunity to address equivalent discipline specific learning outcomes. The student engaging in this module will also complete a selection of elective modules from across the Yeats Academy of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Interior Architecture and Design Studio Office: Spaces for All aims to offer the student the following opportunities:
- To engage in Interior Architectural or Interior Design projects within a design practice modelled setting, participating in work practices, procedures and organisational structures that might typically be encountered during an Interior Architectural work placement.
- To explore, learn and apply the principles of inclusive design and focus on sustainable design solutions.
- To apply the knowledge and skills gained throughout the course in a relevant workplace modelled setting (including design, representational, procedural, technical, budgetary, legislative knowledge and skills);
To develop their organisational, collaborative and design skills necessary to function as an effective team member in an Interior Architectural design - office setting.
- To foster their interpersonal skills, problem-solving skills, teamwork, practical skills, self-confidence and self-reliance, commercial awareness, and maturity.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module the learner will/should be able to;
Collaborate or witness the identification and development of a design brief in response to a design problem that addresses client needs, social justice and climate emergency.
Collaborate and negotiate design ideas and production methods professionally, within a multidisciplinary group including users, manufacturers and suppliers
Demonstrate an awareness of specification, materials resourcing, costing and production techniques relevant to design proposal.
Integrate sustainable practices and related technical knowledge, as well as legislation, codes of practice, and health and safety requirements into the proposed design solution.
Communicate design ideas (and procedural, technical, budgetary and legislative knowledge) in a comprehensive, clear and accurate Interior Design production package.
Integrate systems of form, elements, furniture, surfaces, materials, colour and light in the design of functional and aesthetic spaces.
Integrate response to social justice and climate emergency issues in your design
Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between people and spaces they inhabit, in the context of interior design.
Manage the design research process and apply artistic and design principles with regard to climate emergency and social inclusion..
Teaching and Learning Strategies
The module is delivered using a combination of briefing and explanatory sessions, tutorials, presentations of work, discursive meetings, individual and group review of ongoing work. Through discussion, work-based research, critical evaluation, visits to craft-oriented practices and conversations with craftspeople , the student develops their design and production package. An experiential and student-centred approach promotes personal, reflective, and active engagement with learning, fostering confidence and competence in the communication of ideas. Clearly defined learning outcomes are constructively aligned with assessment criteria.
Module Assessment Strategies
A range of continuous, performance assessment techniques are used in projects including portfolio; reports; presentations; and a reflective logbook. Moreover, tutor, peer and self-ratings are utilised to assess skills formatively, including effort, self-directed learning and group cooperation. Students are provided with relevant and informative feedback during interactive dialogue including comments on stated objectives at the end of each stage of a piece of the design project and this includes feedback from peers as well as tutors.
Two staged submissions, a portfolio of work and a logbook are graded summatively at the appropriate stages of the module and design project.
Repeat Assessments
Repeat assessment will be dependent on failed components.This will be confirmed at formal exam boards.
Indicative Syllabus
The student engages reflectively in simulated work-based learning. The student produces a reflective portfolio of work and keeps a work log that is signed regularly by lecturing staff. In this module, students engage in developing a clear understanding of clients' needs through the generation of a design brief for an interior design project, that is then taken through to detailed production drawings, specifications, costing documents, and production of prototypes, samples, fragments and other as appropriate. Each student is expected to submit an individual, collated, and organised portfolio of work for formal workplace-typical review, with summative assessment at the end of the module. This portfolio must include research, awareness of fit-out methods, making of prototypes and sampling of materials, costing and sourcing, specifications, drawings, models and sketches of tasks outlined in briefs. The portfolio must demonstrate that learning outcomes for the module have been met.
The module includes the following:
- In office briefing from lectures, including meetings with real/simulated client.
- Research, analysis of clients' needs and design problem (and related ethical, legal, technical and contextual issues, opportunities and limitations). Research for the design includes desk research concerning sustainability, material resourcing, appropriateness, technical, budgetary and contextual issues related to the brief, as well as research of new, sustainable materials and sourcing or design of fittings in consultation with suppliers and manufacturers.
- Collaborative Development of a simple brief (in response to all the above)
- Development of a plan of action (in response to the above)
- Development of a design response, in cognisance of sustainable crafts and making practices
- Design realisation as individual/collaborative development and completion of production package
- Reflective compilation of a work-based logbook signed regularly by lecturer.
The module is supported by demonstrations, briefing and discussions relevant to concurrent design challenges, stages and processes.
Coursework & Assessment Breakdown
Coursework Assessment
Title | Type | Form | Percent | Week | Learning Outcomes Assessed | |
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1 | Portfolio of Design and Production Package. | Project | Assessment | 85 % | Week 15 | 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 |
2 | Log Book Submission | Coursework Assessment | Assessment | 15 % | Week 12 | 2 |
Full Time Mode Workload
Type | Location | Description | Hours | Frequency | Avg Workload |
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Tutorial | Studio | Practical, tutorial, workshop and practice based research engagement | 6 | Weekly | 6.00 |
Independent Learning | Studio | self-directed study, research and practice | 8 | Weekly | 8.00 |
Required & Recommended Book List
2017-03-14 Work Placements - A Survival Guide for Students Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 9781137081919 ISBN-13 1137081910
This book is an essential guide for students contemplating or embarking upon work placements. Using comments from students, employers and tutors, it includes guidelines on how to find an appropriate placement; audit skills; construct a strong CV and application; prepare for an interview and derive maximum benefit from the work placement experience. The book identifies common problems facing students, together with remedial strategies, and offers suggestions for tackling written and oral assignments. Finally, it shows how to create and implement a successful job-search strategy.
2008-12-22 Becoming an Interior Designer John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 9780470114230 ISBN-13 0470114231
If you're embarking upon a career in interior design, here's a highly visual overview of the profession, with in-depth material on educational requirements, design specialties, finding a job, and the many directions a career in interior design can take. Featuring informative interviews with working designers, this Second Edition includes updated educational requirements and a list of accredited interior design programs in the United States and Canada.
2022-07 Designing for the Climate Emergency Riba Publishing
ISBN 1859469647 ISBN-13 9781859469644
We are in a climate emergency. Architects must be part of the radical change needed. This book guides architecture student to create truly sustainable designs. Demonstrating holistic design approaches through 10 key themes, it guides students through the different stages of the design process in five illustrated chapters. Reflecting the years of study, it provides step-changes towards eventual architecture practice. Unique features include key checklists, case studies, student examples and an extensive glossary.
2016-08-30 Sustainable Lina Springer
ISBN 9783319329840 ISBN-13 3319329847
This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability. It concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardis late adaptive reuse projects and works from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting her themes, technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury as sustainability.The edited book charts how Lina Bo Bardi invented her own version of sustainability, introduced this concept through her landscape and adaptive reuse designs and through ideas about cross-cultures in Brazil. The book offers a critical reflection, exploration and demonstration of the importance of adaptive reuse in the landscape and related themes for researchers and provides researchers and students new material on sustainability for further study. In the context of the plurality of revisions of Lina Bo Bardis work, this book brings about a refreshed interpretation of her integrative approach to adaptive reuse of buildings and landscapes as a significant contribution to the sustainability debate. It offers new insights into the construction of discourses about sustainability from the perspective of one of the key architects in the period to operate in the interface between modernity and tradition. Dr Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth (UK) Adaptability is one of the most important words in sustainable architecture today. From this perspective, this book looks at the work of a master of Brazilian modernism with lessons to be learnt on how to qualify indoor and outdoor spaces in social, environmental and architectural terms. Adaptive strategies as those seen throughout the work of Bo Bardi are key instrument/tools/concept to sustainable buildings and cities. Professor Joana Carla Soares Goncalves, FAU, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) The year 2015 marked the centenary of Lina Bo Bardi. This book is looking at Bardi's work through the perspective of adaptive reuse. Bringing together specialists on sustainability with specialists of Lina's work, the book generates an interesting new layer of discussion on the work of an architect that was never shy of controversy. Associate Professor Fernando Luiz Lara, University of Texas at Austin (USA) This collection of essays makes a very important and engaging contribution to suggest that to take Lina as an inspiration is to deal with her contradictions and to evaluate the stakes of what she struggled with in a 21st century world. What the authors gathered here and have laid out is a very timely invitation to discern Lessons from Lina in relationship to todays pressing issues of architecture and environment, sustainability, recycling, and developing an ethical design position in a world of diminishing resources and escalating challenges. -Prof Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University and MoMA, New York (USA) The book features a Foreword by Barry Bergdoll. Winner of the Curtin University Humanities Research Award 2017 for Best Book of the Year (Oct. 2017). Here the judges appraisal: An elegantly conceptualised and carefully crafted volume that represents the work of the twentieth century Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi through the lens of urgent contemporary questions of sustainability, adaptive re-use and ethical design. The book brings together a multidisciplinary and international collection of authors and addresses a global readership. It is beautifully presented and intelligently edited. (Jury, Book Award 2017) Winner of the Curtin University Humanities Research Award 2017 for Best Chapter of the Year (Sept. 2017): Annette Condello. Chapter 3 Salvaging the Sites Luxuriance: Lina Bo Bardi Landscape Architect. Here the judges appraisal: A richly textured investigation of Lina Bo Bardi, a complex, fascinating and important Italian-born Brazilian architect, designer and co-founder of the magazine Habitat. [...] This chapter is a thoughtful and respectful but also critical piece, combining thorough research with deft analysis and carefully selected images, and the publication has been highly recommended by leading academics and curators. (Jury, Book Award 2017)
2014-04-30 Perspectives on Social Sustainability and Interior Architecture Springer Science & Business
ISBN 9789814585392 ISBN-13 9814585394
This book argues that interior architects have a responsibility to practice their profession in collaborative ways that address the needs of communities and of to be the agents of social justice and cultural heritage. The book is divided into three sections, based on three pivotal themes community engagement, social justice and cultural heritage. Each section has chapters that put forward the principles of these themes, leading into a variety of fascinating case studies that illustrate how socially sustainable design is implemented in diverse communities across the world. The second section includes four concise case studies of community housing issues, including remote-area indigenous housing and housing for the homeless. The third section offers two extensively researched essays on design and cultural heritage a case study of the development of a redundant industrial site and a historical study of gendered domestic interiors. The book appeals to a wider audience than the design community alone and challenges mainstream interior design/interior architecture practitioners nationally and internationally to take a leading role in the field of socially responsible design. The issues raised by the authors are relevant for individuals, communities, government and non-government organisations, professionals and students. In the twenty-first century we seem to have entered into a new world of knowledge discovery, where many of the most exciting insights come not from the authority of a traditional discipline, but from the dialogue that happens at the hubs and intersections of thought the arenas where different disciplines and approaches, different schools and habits of thinking, come together to collaborate and contend. This collection is a good example of this, and I hope the book will be widely read and its lessons learned and applied. Tim Costello, Officer of the Order of Australia, Chief Executive, World Vision Australia.
2013-10-24 The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design A&C Black
ISBN 9781472539045 ISBN-13 1472539044
The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design offers a compelling collection of original essays that seek to examine the shifting role of interior architecture and interior design, and their importance and meaning within the contemporary world. Interior architecture and interior design are disciplines that span a complexity of ideas, ranging from human behaviour and anthropology to history and the technology of the future. Approaches to designing the interior are in a constant state of flux, reflecting and adapting to the changing systems of history, culture and politics. It is this process that allows interior design to be used as evidence for identifying patterns of consumption, gender, identity and social issues. The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design provides a pioneering overview of the ideas and arrangements within the two disciplines that make them such important platforms from which to study the way humans interact with the space around them. Covering a wide range of thought and research, the book enables the reader to investigate fully the changing face of interior architecture and interior design, while offering questions about their future trajectory.
2020-06-01 Radical Housing Routledge
ISBN 9781000033458 ISBN-13 1000033457
Radical Housing explores the planning, technical, financial, health-based and social background for developing multi-generational homes and co-living. Abundantly illustrated with case studies and plans from projects across the UK and abroad, this book inform sand inspires the delivery of alternative approaches to affordable and flexible housing, and is an essential text for architecture practitioners, students, and community groups.
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