Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Kadir Has University
About this program
Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
The Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department aims to train professionals who can conceptualize their designs through critical inquiry within contemporary theoretical frameworks, and prepare graduates who are equipped with the knowledge and technical skills required for realizing their designs at the level of universal standards, who have the confidence of designing and working independently, yet at the same time who have the ability to be a team member that are aware of their professional and ethical responsibilities. Along this path, materialization of the act of designing spaces, environmental analyses and identification of user needs and preferences through particapatory processes as well as their reflections on designs constitute the unique emphasis in the educational vision of the department.
The curriculum, which is developed with a contemporary and interdisciplinary approach, is structured around the interior design studio as its center. Technical courses are given through hands-on applications within small group projects whereby computer aided design techniques and presentation techniques are encouraged. Department targets training designers who have the skills of questioning and perceiving the phenomenon of designing a wide spectrum that ranges from individual industrial product to architectural and urban scale, who have the sensitivity towards historical contexts and who can convert these sensitivities and awareness into creativity.
The graduates are not only accepted to qualified master’s degree programs of prominent graduate design schools, completing their education; they are also employed in national and international design offices, furniture and construction companies or running their own design offices.
The languages of instruction for this program are English and Turkish.
Admission requirements
In the framework of the regulations set by Higher Education Council of Turkey (YÖK), student admission for this undergraduate program is made through a university entrance examination. Following the submission of students' academic program preferences, Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) places the students to the relevant program according to the equally-weighted score they get from ÖSYS.
For more information about admission requirements, please visit the website.
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Year 1
- Principles of Atatürk and History of Turkish Republic I
- English-I
- Basic Design Studio I
- Visual Communication in Design I
- Introduction to Design
- Introduction to Interior Architecture
- Turkish Language I
- Keywords in Architecture
- Principles of Atatürk and History of Turkish Republic II
- English II
- Basic Design Studio II
- Visual Communication in Design II
- System Thinking
- Social Responsibility
- Turkish Language II
Year 2
- History and Theory of Architecture I
- English-III
- Interior Architecture Project I
- Computer Aided Design I
- Interior Architecture Design Systems I-Building Components
- History and Theory of Architecture II
- English-IV
- Interior Architecture Project II
- Computer Aided Design II
- Interior Architecture Design Systems II-Building Components
Year 3
- Internship I
- Exploring Istanbul
- Interior Architecture Project III
- Interior Architecture Design Systems III-Buildind Services
- Architectural Survey and Restoration
- Interior Architecture Project IV
- Interior Architecture Design Systems IV-Installation
- Environmental Analysis Methods
- Elective-II
- Elective-I
Year 4
- Portfolio Design
- Interior Architecture Project V
- Graduation Seminar
- Elective-IV
- Elective-III
- Internship II
- Interior Architecture Final Project
- Professional Practice and Ethics
- Elective-V
- Elective-VI
Elective courses
- Architectural Experimentation
- Furniture Design and Production
- Advanced CAID
- Designing User Experience in Interior Architecture
- Architectural Discourse and Theory
- Contemporary Architectural Discourse and Criticism
- Human Behaviour & Environment Design
- Design and Health
- Design Methods and Praxis
- Understanding Space
- Furniture Design and Production
- Advanced CAID
- Designing User Experience in Interior Architecture
- Architectural Experimentation
- Contemporary Architectural Discourse and Criticism
- Design and Health
- Design Methods and Praxis
Scholarships & funding
For more information about scholarship options, please visit the website.
Tuition
$12,000 per year
Qualification
The students who successfully complete the program are awarded the degree of Bachelor of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. (Level 6).
Program outcomes
- Combines the theoretical and technical know-how on design methods and techniques in an integrated architectural design process.
- Has the ability to develop current urban, social situations and legal regulations, to develop programs at different scales including future predictions, to prepare projects and to apply them in communication with relevant institutions and individuals.
- Has the ability to express abstract, systematic and critical thinking, reflection of ideas in the design process and appropriate representation tools (drawing, model, digital technology, etc.)
- Has knowledge about architectural approaches, practices, discourses and theories at historical and contemporary, global and local scales and has the ability to evaluate historical and interdisciplinary relations, oral and written presentations.
- Take responsibility for various roles within the team during interior design and / or research processes; share knowledge, skills and competence.
- Interior design and environment design has the understanding of approaching to user's rights, social justice, sensitivity to professional ethics and responsibilities, considering design principles for all.
- Being aware of the current problems related to the natural and built environment, and having the responsibility to make sustainable and respectful designs for the natural and cultural heritage.
- Have a basic knowledge and competence in urban and architectural design, and have the ability to relate this knowledge to current urban and architectural problems and discourses.
- Has the ability to relate the behaviour of the structural systems and the knowledge about the production of contemporary structural systems to the interior design.
- Has the skill of designing interior components, building systems and understanding the basic principle methods of building details and associating them with interior design.
- Has the ability to understand the basic principles of building production techniques, and to relate this knowledge to interior design, production, use and application of building materials.
- Has the responsibility to apply the knowledge of professional practice related to architectural design, social responsibility and ethical values.
Continuing studies
The students graduating from this program may apply to graduate programs.
Career paths
Graduates of the program can work in every possible area of interior design such as interior design offices, construction firms, furniture industry, government institutions or municipalities, academic institutions or research centers.
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Kadir Has University
Kadir Has University, one of the oldest foundation universities in Turkey, is located in the heart of Istanbul. The university with 5 Undergraduate faculties and School of Graduate Studies, is dedicated to becoming a leader in Turkish higher education and...
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