STUDY PROGRAMME
Design

AFAM CODE
ABPR17

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Design

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Design

CREDITS
12

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course leads to the full development of all the necessary skills to manage an interior design project for complex public spaces. The students acquire the ability to manage the entire design process, from concept to executive design, including the strategies to present the project in all of its phases. The integrated didactic module provides in-depth study on specific research and project topics, to be determined according with the project theme.

This teaching is made of a single module of 12 CFA credits.

Successful students will be able to:

• Lead and manage the development of a complete interior design project

• Apply and reconsider the methodology according to the personal project objectives

• Rework and reorganize the project brief

• Carry out research to generate new knowledge and/or identify new meanings to be activated through the project

• Create a flawless visualization of space and create successful communication for the project

• Acquire thorough and comprehensive knowledge of materials and technologies that are used in specific areas of interior design

• Acquire skills and methods to accurately lead the project in the areas of decoration and/or architectural details

• Complex public spaces

• Display areas, symbolic spaces, places of high historical value

• Concept, moodboards, references, inspiration

• Hybrid methods of space representation

• Aesthetic techniques and codes for advanced rendering, photorealism, mixed realit

• Decorative aspects of objects and surfaces

• Analysis of architectural and/or structural details

• Representation techniques for architectural details

This is a theoretical/project based course. Over the course, the students will carry out didactic activities that are functional to achieving the learning goals, that in both modules may include:

• Classroom lectures

• Exercises and revisions

• Field trips

• Development of individual projects

• Individual study and research

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools for detailed study

Assessment is based on the final project presentation and may include:

• Oral exam

• Complete projects

• Assessed revisions or mid-term tests

The assessment criteria consider the quality of contents, methodological consistency of the project, maturity in the acquisition of design tools and quality of the space representation.

• Yelavich, S. (2007) Contemporary World Interiors, Phaidon.

Further bibliographic recommendations may be provided by the professors during the course. A lot of the referenced material, to-gether with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.