DT1S28 - Interior Design Core Skills 01 Sep 2020 - 31 Aug 2026 | Version 1

Associated Module Information

Module Code: DT1S28
Module Title: Interior Design Core Skills
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Games and Design
Faculty Sub Group: Design
Module Leader: Heddus Davies
Module Team: Paul Tomlinson, Aimee Ward, Emma Marshman
First Intended Intake: SEP 2020 Final Year of Intake: 2025
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 4
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 101316 - interior design and architecture
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 1
Valid From 01 Sep 2020
Valid To 31 Aug 2026

Module Aims

Introduce research skills appropriate to Interior Design practice.

Develop the ability to read and survey both orthographic and built environments.

Develop essential skills to draw Interior Design proposals following orthographic drawing processes.

Enable students to build up a portfolio of drawings to demonstrate fundamental hand drawing formats and basic computer drawing and presentation skills.

Content Summary

This module involves an Immersive Project that introduces the fundamentals of research, analysis, concept and presentation.

The module begins with an introduction to basic drawing conventions, awareness of scale, representing a 3D space as a 2D drawing, understanding how to cut plans and sections and represent elevations, as well as 3D projections and perspective views. These processes are initially taught hand drawn before introducing basic CAD software to digitize these drawings. This includes use of CAD commands from menus to create plans, sections, elevations and text on a variety of media sizes from A4 to A1 and scales: File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools, Draw, Dimensions, Modify, Window. Use of model, layout tabs, and viewports: set up layouts, re-use layout settings, create layout viewports, edit in layout viewports. Print and plot drawings; set up page, plot configuration, black and white and colour printing.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 2
Seminar 2
Tutorial 1
Demonstration 2
Practical classes and workshops 21
Supervised time in studio/workshop 10
Independent Study 100
Directed Study 50
Formative Assessment - Scheduled 2
Groupwork 10
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Draw scaled plans, sections, elevations with dimensions and annotation, 3D projections, and perspective views using recognised drawing conventions in analogue and digital 2D CAD formats.
LO2 Recognise industry standard drawing sheet formatting.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Portfolio 1 A collection of analogue and digital drawing work that has been developed throughout the module. 0 N/A 100 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Portfolio 1

Reading List

Bennet Wirtz, D. (2014) Hand Drafting for Interior Design, 2nd ed. New York: Fairchild.

Dernie, D. (2014) Architectural Drawing, 2nd ed. London: Laurence King.

Gordon, R. P. (2016) Integrated Drawing Techniques: Designing interiors with hand sketching, Sketchup, and Photoshop. New York: Fairchild.

Hughes, A. (2008) Interior Design Drawing. Ramsbury: Crowood.

Jones, F. H. (1986) Interior Architecture: Drafting and perspective. Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann.

McFarlane, B. (2007) Beginning AutoCAD. Burlington, MA: Newnes Publishing.

Omura, G. and Benton, B. (2015) AutoCAD 2016 and AutoCAD LT 2016. Indianapolis: Autodesk Official Press/Sybex.

Plunkett, D. (2014) Drawing for Interior Design, 2nd ed. London: Laurence King.

Scalise, C. M. (2014) Interior Design Illustrated: Marker and watercolor techniques, 2nd ed. New York: Fairchild.

Travis, S. (2015) Sketching for Architecture Interior Design. London: Laurence King.