Master in Interior Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology
Chalmers University of Technology launches a new Master’s programme in Interior Architecture that will provide advanced knowledge in the design of architectural space. Focus is set on enriched spatial experience and the human interaction with space as well as health and environmental issues and knowledge in physical and technical conditions – acoustics, light, colour, materials, indoor climate and construction.
The programme will start in the autumn semester 2009. The aim is to develop abilities to form high quality spaces in an interior art that can organize functions, acoustic atmospheres, lighting and colour, indoor climate and supporting structures to an artistic entirety.
With the course Research by Design as a starting point, the programme uses a creative, investigative approach where design projects are the main educational form. Projects will focus on themes like Space and sound, Space and climate, Lighting and colour, Space, material and construction, and Extreme environments. Public and collective spaces stand at the centre of the studies. The second year course on Design for Sustainable Development will develop deeper knowledge on energy efficiency, materials and emissions, work climate, ergonomics and ‘design for all’.
The programme is hosted by the Department of Architecture, in collaboration with Civil and Environmental Engineering, the IT University and the Lighting Design Center in Alingsås. Through this co-operation, the education generates a diversity that responds to current and future labour market demands: the need for a professional competence that can move between architectural and interior design; deal with the shaping of spatial sequences, indoor and outdoor spaces, general spaces and spaces for specific use, and take part in teams of advanced, integrated design tasks.
Thirty students will be admitted each year. Prerequisites are a Bachelor degree in Architecture, Interior Architecture or Interior Design. Admission will be made by ranking portofolios. Depending on Bachelor profile, the education will give the degree Master of Architecture (in Swedish, ‘Arkitektexamen’), authorised by the Swedish Association of Architects, or Master of Science (in Swedish, ‘Teknologie masterexamen’), with the specification ‘Interior Architecture’.
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