BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Reuse

• Retrofit design through the adaptation, repair and transformation of buildings
• Interior design, including lighting, furniture and materiality
• Architectural, interior and social history, theory and context
• Digital craft, fabrication and design methodologies
• Business, enterprise and regulatory frameworks
• Problem solving and critical thinking through iteration, testing and experimentation
• Climate knowledge and fundamentals for human-centred spaces

The Integrated Foundation Year is a chance to ask big questions, explore remarkable architectural projects, and develop the skills you need to thrive on one of our spatial design courses. You’ll be part of a dynamic group, learning and collaborating with peers across our built environment courses in a creative studio environment. 

Modules include: 

• Design, Media and Representation I
• Introduction to Professional Context: Spatial Practices
• Exploring: Culture and Context
• Design, Media and Representation II
• Introduction to Professional Context: Cross-Disciplinary Practices
• Influencing: Culture and Context 

Your first year introduces the fundamentals of architectural representation through drawing and making. It’s hands-on, studio-centred, and focused on learning to collect, create and collaborate. Design is underpinned by histories, theories, technology and professional skills. 

Modules include: 

• Specialist Study 1: Structure
• Specialist Study 2: Introduction to Construction
• Specialist Study 3: Introduction to Environment and Services
• Architectural Theory and History
• Introduction to Professional and Business Practice 

Second year shifts focus to urban contexts and the spaces between buildings. You’ll explore how cities are shaped by history and theory, investigate branded environments and community participation, and integrate sustainable strategies into your design work. 

Modules include: 

• Urbanism: History and Theory of the City
• Urban Intervention
• Market Factors: the New Commercial Paradigm
• Sustainable Design: Rehabilitation and Re-use 

The final year is the culmination of your research, experimentation and design development - and an opportunity to take full ownership of your project. You’ll lead a speculative design and building technology proposal for the adaptive reuse of an existing building, drawing on a range of drawing techniques alongside digital and physical model-making. 

Your portfolio will demonstrate broad thinking around conservation, adaptive and creative reuse, interior design and architecture. You’ll graduate with strong critical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills - and a professional portfolio ready for your transition into the built environment. 

Modules include: 

• Negotiated Brief
• Major Project
• Dissertation
• Preparing for Professional Practice 

At Ravensbourne we accept a wide range of qualifications for entry onto our courses, whilst also considering the context in which they were achieved. For this course, we would usually require a GCSE Grade 4 or above in English in addition to any of the below;

• Three A Levels at grade CCC or above
• BTEC Extended Diploma at grade MMM
• UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma
• T Level (pass or above)
• Access to Higher Education Diploma
• International Baccalaureate at grade 24 or above
• Other/Mixed qualifications equivalent to 96 UCAS Tariff points

At Ravensbourne we take a flexible approach to admissions, as we want you to know exactly what you need to achieve in your exams to guarantee a place on the course. We still think exams are important and look forward to hearing about your successes, but we place just as much importance on the work you will share with us as part of our portfolio process.

Interview and portfolio requirements

This is the start of your journey. We want to understand how this course will help you develop your professional voice. Show us why you want to join our vibrant, creative community. 

Your portfolio can showcase your creative interests through drawings, sketches, design work, photography, video, fashion, sculpture or any other media that reflects your diverse creative impulses. 

This page offers great tips for completing your portfolio/showreel.

At Ravensbourne we accept a wide range of qualifications for entry onto our courses, whilst also considering the context in which they were achieved. For this course, we would usually require a GCSE Grade 4 or above in English in addition to any of the below;

• Two A Levels at grade CC or above
• BTEC Extended Diploma at grade MPP
• UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma
• T Level (pass or above)
• Access to Higher Education Diploma
• International Baccalaureate at grade 24 or above
• Other/Mixed qualifications equivalent to 64 UCAS Tariff points

At Ravensbourne we take a flexible approach to admissions, as we want you to know exactly what you need to achieve in your exams to guarantee a place on the course. 

Interview and portfolio requirements

There are no interview or portfolio requirements for this course.