Interior Architecture & Design Facilities
Studios
Interior Architecture & Design students have a dedicated, purpose-built studio space in our award-winning building, Broadcasting Place based at the City Campus. The light and airy studio provides a creative hub and a flexible learning space for our students to design, draw, make and socialise.
The studio is based on the creative and practical nature of our courses, emphasising personal exploration and development, and recognising the value of peer learning. The flexible and vibrant working space is where most of the teaching and learning takes place on the course, as well as providing an impressive venue for exhibitions.
Students are encouraged to see the studios as a professional workplace. They can work on individual projects as well as using the space to meet and work collaboratively on projects. Staff are located nearby, with offices just down the corridor.
The studio has a combination of:
- Studio tables
- Parallel motion drawing boards
- Flip-top drawing boards
- Ceiling projectors with full AV facilities
- PC and Apple Mac desktops with up-to-date specialist software
- Wi-Fi access
- Printers with the ability to print from sizes A4 to A0
- Sinks with hot and cold water for art work
- Screens and exhibition areas for displaying work
Workshops
There are a number of practical workshops available to our students. On the ground floor of Broadcasting Place there is an impressive multi-functional workshop with substantial equipment supporting the following processes and materials:
- Woodworking
- Metalworking
- Fabrication
- Plastic forming
- Vinyl moulding
- Glass reinforced plastics
- Welding
- Plasma cutting
- Model making
- Lazer cutting (with Epilog Laser Cutter. Helix)
- 3D printing
- Sculptural processes
Students are provided with heath and safety induction training prior to using the machinery. Learning Officer staff have offices within the workshop area where they are available to provide support and supervision as necessary to students.
