Master in Interior Design

Module 1 - Projects

Module 2 - Workshops on space

Module 3 - Materiality and conditioning

Module 4 - Representation

Module 5 - Communication

Module 6 - Master's final project

Module 1: Projects

The project as a key tool in professional design practice.

During this Master's course, a total of four projects will be completed, three of them in this module. In addition, this course will deal with project methodology as a tool (project intentions and strategies), the transfer of formal and conceptual references to project practice (imaginaries), and historical practice (history and culture of interior design applied to the realisation of current projects).

During project development, students will incorporate all the contents and tools that will be used simultaneously in the other modules.

The development of projects is hybridised with visits to designers’/architects' studios and visits to relevant centres/institutions. It is also complemented by the possibility of participating in competitions with a consolidated trajectory.

• (PI) Projects and spaces of privacy: homes, hotels, health and care spaces.
• (PII) Projects and spaces of interaction: work spaces, exhibition spaces, educational spaces, public spaces, cultural spaces, ephemeral architecture.
• (PIII) Projects and spaces of exchange: commercial spaces, gastronomic spaces, leisure spaces.

Students will also be able to propose projects for current hybrid spaces: home-workshops, home-offices, education-culture, etc.

Module 2: Space workshops

The workshop as a key methodology for exploration and the acquisition of knowledge through practice: learning by doing.

In the workshops that will take place in this module, students will carry out activities and practical exercises of short and medium duration with the aim of acquiring knowledge and incorporating it into the various projects that they will carry out simultaneously.

Space is inhabited: it transmits sensations, emotions, and is the container and wellspring of experiences. Exploring, knowing and harmonising materials, proportions, scales, light or people's movement, among others, are determining factors in the production of people-friendly spaces.

• Identification and representation of non-tangible attributes and tangible dimensions of space
• Perception: light and illumination, colour, sound, texture, movement. The inhabitant in space
• Atmospheres: material and sensory coherence and harmonisation
• Space and experience: emotional design, user-experience
• Space and time: flexibility, adaptability, evolving spaces
• Sustainability (social): empathy maps, co-design, relational design
• Space, context, and culture (place)

Module 3: Materiality and conditioning

Matter, technologies and energy as basic components of space.

Spatial design is a discipline that works with knowledge, materialities and technologies which are specific to it and which differ from place to place (material culture). Exploring them, getting to know them and mastering them is key to the realisation of design projects.

This module is completed with visits to works in progress by active professionals and makers of recognised interest (designers, artists, craftsmen and women).

Construction processes, spatial elements (walls and partitions, flooring, cladding, carpentry), and installations (sanitation, electricity, plumbing, gas, air conditioning).

• Space and objects: furniture design, product and space design, elements (sanitary ware, taps, kitchens...).
• From the project to the building site: regulations, technical documentation, measurements and budgets, planning and management of the work.
• Bio-construction, healthy spaces (comfort and well-being) and sustainability (energy and space, ecological footprint, recycling, reuse).
• Introduction to restoration and rehabilitation
• Material innovation

Module 4: Representation

Graphic expression as a fundamental tool in the process of a project and communication of spatial design.

In this module, different languages, tools and techniques for the representation of space will be explored and applied with the aim of enabling students to master different means for the development of design practices by discovering, establishing, designing and communicating through expressive processes.

• Two-dimensional graphic representation (drawing, CAD, Autocad), and three-dimensional (virtual models, renderings, 3ds Max)
• Models: strategies, materials and techniques for the elaboration of communicative and conceptual models
• Conceptual graphic representation: image post-processing (Photoshop) and atmospheric Moodboard
• The diagram as a graphic tool for projects and communication (Miro)
• Introduction to advanced graphic representation: BIM (Revit)

Module 5: Communication

In the current context, mastering graphic and audiovisual communication tools is key to any design practice.

In this module, communication projects will be designed and carried out within the framework of spatial design, applying appropriate, coherent and innovative tools and technologies.

• Elaboration and communication of project narratives
• Dialogue with the client and/or inhabitant: communicative strategies and techniques
• Audiovisual media as a tool for the communication of spatial design proposals
• Platforms and websites
• Interactive media and mapping as a communication tool

Module 6: Master's Final Project

The Master's Final Project is a tool for synthesising everything studied during the Master's course, and is also a vehicle for exploring and determining the personal identity necessary for developing professional practice.

In the Master's final project, a project oriented towards professional practice will be developed. Students will decide on the programme of uses (living spaces, cultural and leisure spaces, etc.) for which they wish to develop their proposal, including those aspects related to innovation dealt with in the master's degree.