Overview

This unit develops students’ design skills and creativity working on abstract and/or real architecture projects. This unit encourages students to research, explore and experiment with different design techniques and tools using a range of visual communication and design techniques. This studio uses a philosophical and a research approach in order to explore different environmental, sustainable, cultural and social interior architectural issues relevant to an interior architecture project.

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Analyse environmental, cultural and social issues relevant to interior architectural issues
  • Represent how a person may experience an interior space in response to key sensorial qualities
  • Evaluate the living conditions of different cultures as they relate to interior architectural and sustainable objectives relevant to an interior design project
  • Create a successful interior architectural project that reflects conceptual design thinking
  • Apply key qualities of space and design tools within the design project through designing, sketching, model-making and graphic composition
  • Justify the key design ideas that are developed within the project both visually and verbally

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Studio		3.00 12 weeks 36
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning		9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Project 1Individual 30% 1,2,3,4,6 
Project 2Individual/Group 20% 1,2,3,4,5 
Project 3Individual 50% 1,2,3,4,5,6 

Content

  • Sustainability
  • Sustainable issues in interior architecture
  • Design thinking
  • Interior architecture movements and philosophies
  • Abstract design thinking and experimentation
  • Design and composition 
  • Exploration of different cultures 
  • The nexus between theory and interior Architecture
  • Sense of scale and the sensory experience.

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.