Interiors, Buildings and Cities MSc 1 Design Project

Interiors Buildings Cities

Interiors Buildings Cities focuses on buildings and interiors that accommodate the different scales and gradations of public life within the city, from the street to the public interior. It addresses how people within or affected by the scenes made by architecture can be situated in relation to place and conditions, time and the historical moment, and social and material culture.

Thinking beyond individual students and courses, Interiors Buildings Cities considers its educational programme as a collective and reflective space of study and discourse: an attitude that is intended to encompass the work of both students and staff. Interiors Buildings Cities engages in common questions concerning the city and its territories, public space, the public interior, questions of interiority, and relations within the social and physical fabric of the city. It does so with the well-being of the entire environment shared by people and other living beings as a central concern.

MSc1 House

The House of the MSc1 project is neither the representative monument of collective public life, nor is it the private house of an individual. Instead, it suggests and considers those buildings that stand between; intimate figures, which both inform and are informed by the physical and social fabric of their immediate locality.

Such buildings are carefully wrought and spatially rich, both generous and adaptable, yet they also embody a degree of typicality and a measure of the material culture of their place. Their interiors host the rooms and spaces that structure and draw a community into consciousness of and in dialogue with itself.

Through a process of iterative drawing and large-scale modelling, supported by lectures and workshops, students will resolve the design and technical integration of such a building and its principal interior spaces, considering it as a figure set within the immediate context a carefully documented urban setting.