托伦斯大学

Walk into a small shop or a whole shopping center, a bar or café, and if you like what you see, it’s probably the work of a smart, experienced and imaginative interior designer. This course will give you those skills and bring out your creativity. Then you’ll have the know-how to design the ever-changing features of our commercial environments, such as retail channels, hotels, bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and workspaces. You’ll even learn to design online virtual commercial environments, as digital technology is a strong focus of this cutting-edge course. You will engage with contemporary theory and discover how to represent spatial environments.

In today’s connection economy, brands want to create appealing and unique environments that connect with their consumers. Throughout the course, you will explore the theoretical and practical elements of designing and making commercial interiors – branding, lighting, sustainability and materiality ¬– to create environments that meet your client’s needs. You will discover how commercial interior-design strategies are developed and assessed. You’ll gain practical industry-based management skills, such as documentation, contract management, professional design practice and cross-disciplinary interaction. And you’ll apply theory to practice by creating a range of commercial interior-design solutions for real clients. Using industry standard software, you’ll build the skills to communicate information that’s relevant to designing, costing and constructing interiors, and find out how to represent spatial environments. You’ll engage with contemporary theory and gain an overview of the leading interior-design trends of the past that still have a powerful influence today, as well as those of the present and look towards the future. During the course, you can apply for an internship with one of our industry partners, giving you real-world experience, contacts in the interior-design industry and material for your professional portfolio. Our graduate, who have the creativity, skills and experience to create state-of-the art, attractive and appropriate commercial interiors are in demand with the leading interior-design firms, nationally and internationally.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Skills to work with the ever-changing drivers of commercial environments
• Theoretical and practical elements of commercial interiors
• Make commercial environments a reality
• Understanding of spatial environments.