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Year 3 Interior Architecture & Design at Canterbury School for Architecture

After completing stage 1 and stage 2, this stage of your interiors education will allow you to perform more and more as an independent designer. In the design studio you’ll have the opportunity to choose and develop your own design program and link this to your dissertation. As such design projects produced in year three are research driven and can deal with wider socio, cultural or technological issues. This work in the studio is supported by 3 additional units; ‘Management and Practice’, supporting your professional development, ‘Technology’, supporting the development of large models and prototypes and ‘Media and Communication’, supporting your presentation techniques.

Below are images from student work at different moments during the academic year illustrating how projects can develop over the course of a 15-week semester.

‘Interior-Loci’ 2010 - a stage 3 Interior Architecture & Design project

By Ephraim Joris, Course Leader IAD and stage 3 Design tutor, January 2010

Interior-Loci (from Genius-Loci as defined by Norberg-Schulz) explores the boundaries of “Interior Space”, investigating the occurrence of an Inside, the moment in space where Exterior becomes Interior.

With this project, students perform on three main levels. All students start with the formulation of an Interior Manifesto describing a set of intentions enchaining these with a critical academic view on different notions on ‘The Interior’.

Based on their Interior Manifesto students explore graphical and spatial explorations of the ideas described in their Manifesto. These negotiations can be site-less in order to accommodate the generation of an abstract but potentially applicable Interior Prototype in direct relation to the Manifesto. When students reach a point of crystallized manifestos and prototypes they insert their ideas in a particular site deploying a particular program to develop their ideas as contextual and programmed spatial interventions/proposals.

This is the second year we deploy 'Interior-Loci' as a research project. Students are currently developing their own research agenda in relation to the research question; "Where is the Interior?"

'Interior-Loci' 2009 was exhibited at the 9th annual Free Range at The Old Truman Brewery, London, in July 2009. For more information on 'Interior-Loci 2009 and the projects by the people below go to InsideOpen.

Anna Baranowska on ‘Domestic Superimposition’; July 28th 2009…read more
Lilly Drolsum on ‘Trace Space’; August 4th 2009…read more
Mark Croft on ‘Displacement’; August 13th 2009…read more

‘Interior-Loci’ 2010; The Interior Prototype

by Ephraim Joris, unit leader and design tutor for this project. Technology support by David Fern. Media support by Jodie Hancock

'Interior-Loci' 2010; The Interior Manifesto

by Ephraim Joris, unit leader and design tutor for this project.

‘Interior-Loci’ wants to negotiate the interior freed from a market economy; freed from standardisation, optimisation, economisation…

‘Interior-Loci’ wants to erode standardised consumable form and re-instigate a research in conceptual space freed from the clutter of stylistic components free from ready made solutions.

‘Interior-Loci’ wants to take nothing for granted and consider the redesign of everything!

‘Interior-Loci’ 2009 Exhibition

June 2009

An exhibition at Free Range, London exhibits work from graduates from Interior Architecture & Design.

“With this exhibition, 5 graduates/practitioners negotiate implicit concepts on the notion of interiority and seem, through this exercise, not only engaged with the question ‘where is the interior’ yet simultaneously seem to question the location of Interior Architecture & Design, as a discipline, within an academic and professional setting…”

To continue to read the articles go to InsideOpen

Interviews with the graduates exhibiting work at Free Range can also be viewed on InsideOpen

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Interior-Loci 2009 site studies and programmatic developments

Crit event 09.04.2009

Students present initial studies on particular site analysis to implement their interior prototypes. In line with their Interior Manifesto new programmatic arrangements are developed in correlation with the site.

Members of the panel;

Katherine Nolan Currently pursuing PhD at the University College for the Creative Arts, Surrey

Ephraim Joris from Canterbury School of Architecture and Course Leader of Interior Architecture & Design

^ Mark Croft: Urban Displacement-Replacement, April 2009

The adaptation of a domestic program in a transferable/transportable unit. A telephone box is subjected to a de-trans-formation process as a form finding process in order to accommodate selected domestic functions.

^ Laura Goodger: Trans-programming Space, April 2009

Interested in the notion of event space as described by Bernard Tschumi the trans-programming of a retail shop and a nightclub is studied. Both spaces exist on opposite sides of the road. Specific programmatic overlaps are studied/designed integrated in the urban fabric through the development of transformable/performative components.

^ Laura Platts: Interior Manifestations, April 2009

The spatial occupation of a church is renegotiated by exploring different performative seating-layouts. Through the adaptation of intrinsic hierarchies between congregation and priest new programmatic opportunities are explored potentially serving a larger spectrum of functions vis a vis a wider urban context.

^ Daniel Tollady: Deconstruction of the Ordinary, April 2009

The program of a university entrance is purged with the program of a library. Both programs, through the notion of the overlap, are in state of transformation. The physical output is the ‘peeling’ of walls to accommodate furniture, protrusions and obstacles.

^ Caroline Grant: Historical Stratifications, March 2009

What she calls a ‘secret garden’ in Canterbury is studied through inhabitation and meticulous observation. The conception of place is negotiated through the notion of historical contextualization. Different historical layers (through research) are re-combined to generate an ‘Interior-Loci’.

The Interior Prototype

Crit event 29.12.2008

Students present their Interior Manifesto and Prototype and explain concepts of interiority during a crit event with international guests at Canterbury School of Architecture.

Members of the panel;

Stefaan Onraet, Course leader Interior Architecture from St Lucas Brussels and Gent

Joris Pauwels from Zaha Hadid Architects

Nanci Diniz from Canterbury School of Architecture

Ephraim Joris from Canterbury School of Architecture and Course Leader of Interior Architecture & Design

The Interior Prototype

Crit event 11.12.2008

The further explorations of the Interior Manifesto through series of drawings and models addressing the notion of serial progression and transformation.

The Interior Manifesto

Crit event 23.10.2008

The devise of a declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives in relation to the research question through writing, drawing and making.

Students manifesto is a critical and polemic response to the chosen source (particular text(s) or book(s)) in order to formulate an answer to the research question “Where is the Interior”. During the project this manifesto undergoes continuous revisions and adjustments in relation to the production of design work produced.

The images below are taken at the first crit event where students present their Interior Manifesto.

Members of the panel:

Riet Eeckhout from Architecture Project

Ephraim Joris from Canterbury School of Architecture and Course Leader of Interior Architecture & Design