Interior Architecture and Design (for Health and Wellbeing)

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design

Design spaces that shape how people feel, connect, and experience the world.

At Arts University Bournemouth, Interior Architecture and Design is explored through making, experimentation, and real-world impact. You’ll design environments across healthcare, hospitality, public space, retail, cultural and immersive experiences –developing interiors that respond to human behaviour, wellbeing and changing social needs.

Working within a dynamic studio culture, you’ll develop ideas through drawing, modelmaking, material experimentation, spatial prototyping, and digital workflows. The course combines architectural thinking with spatial storytelling, atmosphere, and human-centred design, helping you create interiors that are both conceptually strong and carefully resolved.

Immersive design methods are embedded throughout. Using augmented reality, spatial modelling, and digital prototyping, you’ll explore how environments are experienced, communicated, and tested at real scale. These approaches support emerging areas of contemporary practice including experiential design, cultural environments and interactive spatial experiences.

As you progress through the course, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your practice through one of three specialist named award pathways:

• Health and Wellbeing – exploring how interior environments support care, inclusion, accessibility, and quality of life

• Immersive Technologies – using augmented and immersive spatial methods to communicate, test, and experience design ideas

• Detailing and Styling – focusing on materiality, lighting, atmosphere, furniture, and the crafted resolution of space

Graduates leave with a competitive portfolio, a distinctive design identity, and the creative, technical and professional confidence to work across interior architecture, spatial design, experiential environments, and related creative industries.

Why choose this course?

• Be part of a studio culture that values experimentation, care, and originality.

• Gain real-world experience through partnerships and live projects.

• Use immersive technologies to prototype and communicate your designs.

• Design with a purpose: from health and wellbeing to sustainability and inclusivity.

• Collaborate across disciplines in a thriving creative university environment.

Step into a course where design meets social impact, and where your ideas can make a real difference.

Core Benefits or Distinctive Features

• Graduate Futures: live projects meeting real clients to enhance employability skills

• Industry Patron

• Placement Year (optional): Gain industry experience by undertaking a one-year placement on our sandwich route. Previously, students have secured placements with award-winning companies including BDP, Dalziel & Pow, Fitch, Foster + Partners and Tom Dixon.

• Exhibitions and Shows | Exhibit your work at our Undergraduate Summer Shows, our annual Architecture Exchange event and external graduate shows, all attended by industry experts and prospective employers.

Professional Bodies

Professionally accredited courses offer industry-wide recognition, validating the quality of your qualification.

BIID – British Institute of Interior Designers

ECIA – European Council of Interior Architects

https://aub.ac.uk/ba-hons-interior-architecture-design/course-details#tab-5009556-course-content

Coursework and practical work

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• The Society of British & International Interior Design (SBID)