Year 0 Interior Architecture & Design at Canterbury School for Architecture

Year 0 Interior Architecture & Design gives you the opportunity to discover, develop and experiment drawing and making skills particular to spatial design yet more importantly explore what it means to be a spatial designer. As such our year 0 is not just a technical course where you get to grips with drawing standards and ways of modelling space. Our year 0 is a place where you experiment and learn how to use instruments such as drawings and models as thinking tools; tools by which you explore spatial possibilities and great design ideas.

‘Surface Operations' 

In this unit students design a spatial module through the treatment/editing of surfaces. A step by step procedure is established engaging simple rules such as push, pull, rotate, wrap, knot, weave, compress, stretch, etc.

‘The Drawing Unit' as a tool for thinking

The drawing unit is the first of a series of exercises where we teach you not just how to draw but how to use the drawing to think, to imagine, to freely associate possibilities and ideas.The unit starts with ‘slow’ drawings where you explore edges and boundaries. We don’t ask you to draw objects in space such as tables and chairs but to draw around the objects to explore the edges separating the object from its surrounding space.
This exercise develops into you exploring the relationships between objects and their surrounding spaces resulting in an exercise about the perception of relationships through the building of an ‘imaginary machine’.

The Perception of Relationships,

In perception of relationships, we study the relationship between chair and table, between light and floor, between paper and pen, between electrical plug and computer, between window and radiator and to exercise this further; all sorts of machinery, bits and pieces of mechanisms or appliances, tape, strong glue, screws, working tools, torches…  to construct a fictional machine