Undergraduate Course: Interior Design 3C: Externality (ARCH10052)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will build upon earlier knowledge to advance previously developed skills in material specification and awareness of construction detailing. Working with material specification, and/or manufacturing, construction and detailing, students will test their conceptual design ideas in a rigorous and realistic manner through a series of technical detailing exercises. |
| Course description |
Through in-depth investigation and analysis of properties, usage, installation and detail, construction methods and costs, students will develop an enhanced understanding of the appropriate selection and use of available materials.
Students will research building products and materials, through analysis of case studies, explored through model making and drawing. Research gathering will include samples and detail models, alongside written and drawn observations. This body of research will result in a group resource of shared knowledge, to inspire and provoke individual subsequent bespoke detail design solutions.
Working on a singular object, or series of small interior elements, students will explore interior construction through modelmaking at differing scales, as they work through a creative process investigating planes and surface, junctions and fixings. Ideas will develop in tandem through technical drawing and detailed model, to express form, materiality and construction.
Students will learn to use professional terminology, and practice annotation, use of dimensions, and graphic sensibility, to produce a body of work, which will demonstrate specialist technical skill, material understanding and professional practice.
Course Outline
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Basic model making materials (cardboard, glue etc.) and general printing for interim and final submissions, model making materials for sketch and final scale models as required, approx. £55 (note: this may not cover all students own generated printing/model making during design stage) |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Only open to Visiting Students admitted direct to the Interior Design 3rd year as part of that department's portfolio of existing exchange agreements. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 30 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 2,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 4,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 14,
Fieldwork Hours 2,
External Visit Hours 2,
Formative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
170 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% weighting for:
A digital portfolio of work to include -
Research and sketchbook blog (as evidence of Sketchbook & Research Journal work) - Documenting precedent research, material ideas and process.
A graphically presented visual & textual informative document of approx. 10 pages to include construction drawings and photographs of model(s) exploring detail study.
Final Design Proposals - As a set of Illustrative & scaled technical detail drawings & photographs of 3D exploratory models.
Relationship between Assessment and Learning Outcomes:
All three Learning Outcomes are equally weighted in the components of assessment. |
| Feedback |
Formative feedback and Assessment:
Group tutorials will include verbal and/or written feedback from peers and staff on a weekly basis. Mid-semester, students will submit a self-evaluation form, and be given written formative feedback on their formative submission and work to date.
Summative Feedback and Assessment:
At the end of the course students will submit a final edited portfolio of work and a self-evaluation form, and be given written feedback and grades on their work submitted. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Initiate and evaluate a response to research findings which demonstrate knowledge of current material specification and use within Interior Design.
- Explore the scope, defining features, and boundaries of Interior construction detailing, in two and three-dimensions, to externalise ideas.
- Apply specific construction knowledge, communicate this approach through specialist drawing techniques and development models to evidence 3d exploration, in the realisation of a detailed bespoke element.
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Reading List
Booth, S/Plunkett, D. Furniture and Interior Design. Laurence King. (2014)
Brown, R & Farrelly, L. Materials & Interior Design (Portfolio Skills). Laurence King. (2012)
Kula, D & Ternaux, E. Materiology. Frame Publishers. (2013)
Plunkett, D. Construction & Detailing for Interior Design. Laurence King. (2015)
Wilhide, E. The Interior Design Directory: A Sourcebook of Modern Materials. Quadrille Publishing Ltd. (2009) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Construction Detailing, Specification, Model Making, Costing, Graphic Presentation |
| Keywords | Detail,Construction,Materials,External Manufacturing / Construction Process,Technical Drawing |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Andrew Siddall
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Course secretary | Mr Daniel Jackson
Tel: (0131 6)50 2309
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