Program Overview

Interior Architecture BA Honours

Why choose Interior Architecture BA at Middlesex?

Middlesex University's Interior Architecture BA course is highly regarded, with 97% of students positive about the teaching on their course (National Student Survey 2024). The course is led by Jason Scoot, an award-winning Architect, Interior Designer, and design educator with over 20 years of experience.

What you will gain

This course helps you to reimagine the urban environment through architectural interventions. You will explore the potential futures of structures and environments as they near the end of their current lifecycle. We embed United Nations Sustainable Development Goals within all learning and teach you to think empathetically, creatively, and independently.

What you will learn

Interior architecture is a well-established, multi-faceted alternative to interior design. Though the two disciplines are intrinsically linked, interior architecture degrees typically focus on the adaptation, remodelling and sustainable reuse of specific existing buildings, where structure and architectural consideration will empower you to reconfigure sites to dramatic effect.

On this course you will:

• Learn to reimagine the urban environment through architectural intervention
• Design new civic spaces that promote social cohesion including libraries, museums, educational settings and healthcare facilities
• Learn to design incredible interiors, that respond to their context and the local community
• Transform a variety of public and private spaces where you will have the opportunity to design future interiors, that respond to the character and history of your host building and create new hybrid alternatives
• Explore strategies to unlock new potential and promote innovative ways inhabitants will reconnect with the ‘interior’.

Modules

The curriculum focuses on seven core learning strands which are developed progressively throughout the course. You will study four compulsory modules in each year of study. Your work will be divided into credits. Each credit is equal to 10 hours of study time. You will complete 120 credits per year of study, which are broken down into modules of typically 30 credits.

Year 1

• Design Thinking and Communication (30 credits) - Compulsory
• Studio: Spatial Design (30 credits) - Compulsory
• Studio: Exploring people and place (30 credits) - Compulsory
• Studio: Designing for people and place (30 credits) - Compulsory

Year 2

• Interior Architecture Studio: Explore Public Spaces (30 credits) - Compulsory
• Interior Architecture Studio: Design Public Spaces (30 credits) - Compulsory
• Interior Architecture: Context & Construction (30 credits) - Compulsory
• Interior Architecture Studio: Re-imagining Interiors (30 credits) - Compulsory

Optional sandwich year

• Interior Placement (120 credits) - Optional

Year 3/4

• Interior Architecture: Research for Design (30 credits) - Compulsory
• Interior Architecture Studio: Practices of Reuse (30 credits) - Compulsory
• Interior Architecture Studio: Explore Community (30 credits) - Compulsory
• Interior Architecture Studio: Design for Community (30 credits) - Compulsory

Teaching and learning

For much of the course you will be working on design projects, where you can apply various aspects of your learning, as well as your individual creativity and originality, to specified design tasks. Your ideas and proposals will all be tested and explored in regular tutorials and reviews, in which critical evaluation and guidance is provided through discussion and feedback, from which you will be expected to develop and improve your work.

You will also have access to dedicated design studios which replicate the commercial environment, including desktop computers loaded with specific software, and also to the 24-hour library building, sample materials room, 3D workshops (general, metals, ceramics), 3D printing studio, digital media workshops, and photography studios.

Facilities and support

Our Sheppard Library provides a wide range of resources and support to help you to succeed in your studies.

• Over 1,000 study spaces including rooms for group study and over 500 computers available.
• We have one of London's biggest and best university campuses with everything you need in one place.

Careers

Graduates from our Interior Architecture BA course often fulfil design roles in interior design and architectural practices, specialist studios and consultancies, building and property companies, advisory agencies, and the design departments of public and commercial organisations.

Possible careers with a degree in Interiors include:

• Interior designer
• Interior architect
• Interior decorator
• Exhibition designer
• Space planner.

Entry requirements

• UCAS Tariff Points: 112 UCAS tariff points
• A-level: BBC-BBB
• BTEC Requirements: DMM-DDM
• Access Requirements: Overall pass: must include 45 credits at level 3, of which all 45 must be at Merit or higher
• Combinations: A combination of A-Level, BTEC and other accepted qualifications that total 112 UCAS Tariff points

Fees and funding

• UK students: £9,535 (full-time), £79 per taught credit (part-time)
• International students: TBC (full-time), TBC (part-time)

Scholarships and bursaries

We offer a range of scholarships and bursaries to help make uni affordable, including:

• MDX Excellence Scholarship: up to £2,000 per year for UK students
• Regional or International Merit Awards: up to £2,000 towards course fees for International students
• MDX Student Starter Kit: up to £1,000 of goods, including a new laptop or iPad.