Interior Design Architecture

This interior design course explores how people experience interior environments, blending spatial design, architectural thinking and responsible material and technological choices. Throughout your studies, you'll develop strong design, research and problem-solving skills to create meaningful, sustainable and innovative spaces.

Real-world learning sits at the core of the course. You'll work closely with industry partners, gaining hands-on experience through live projects, site engagement and professional input at every level. These authentic experiences help build confidence, networks and readiness for employment within the built-environment sector.

Throughout the course, you’ll develop the ability to understand, design and transform interior spaces across a range of contexts – including domestic, workplace, hospitality, retail, and community settings. You will explore adaptive reuse, materiality, environmental performance and user wellbeing, supported by both creative and technical design skills.

The course places strong emphasis on architectural approaches, guiding you through spatial strategy, functionality, building context, and user-centred design. You will also engage with key contemporary concerns such as sustainability, digital technologies, wellbeing, inclusive design and professional practice. By the time you graduate, you will be equipped to communicate your ideas through drawings, models, digital media and detailed design proposals that meet industry and regulatory standards.

If you’re looking to study our interior design architecture degree but don’t have the relevant qualifications or experience, the art and design foundation year will help you develop the core skills and knowledge to progress. Find out more about the art and design foundation year.

Who is this course for?
This course is ideal for creatively minded individuals who are passionate about how people experience interior environments and want to shape spaces that are sustainable, meaningful and innovative. It suits aspiring interior designers, spatial thinkers and problem-solvers who are motivated by architecture, materials, technology and user wellbeing.

Whether you are new to the field or looking to deepen existing design skills, this course is designed for those who want to work confidently within the built-environment sector and develop into informed, forward-thinking industry practitioners.

What does this course lead to?
Recent graduates have found positions as interior designers in the commercial and domestic interior design sector in the UK and abroad, including John Lewis Interiors, IKEA, Jigsaw, BO Concept, BrightSpace Architects, and Porcelanosa. Other graduates have been successful in setting up their own interior design practices.

Students are also prepared to become freelance consultants upon graduation, which can increase employability. Some graduates have gone on to study for a postgraduate degree including Solent’s MSc Sustainable Building Design and MA Visual Communication.

Solent's Clearing fast pass* gets you ahead, with priority support and everything you need to feel confident about your next step. Secure your guaranteed offer before results day and unlock a 20% discount on Kimber and Chantry student halls, a £100 IKEA voucher, free gold gym membership for the academic year, and a £150 campus dining voucher.

*T&Cs apply. Full details on our website.

Join the career-ready revolution this summer at Solent. Every course is designed around five things: real-world learning in every module; block teaching, so you study one subject at a time, not five assignments at once; direct links with employers and careers support for life. This isn't a tweak. It's a rethink of what university should be.

Our facilities are built with your future career in mind, including Warsash Maritime School, the Solent Sports Complex, science labs, animation and 3D modelling studios and applied mechanics and composites labs.

And outside class? Southampton has it all: shopping, culture, live music, football, cricket, festivals, markets, tiny Thai cafes, ghost walks and record fairs. It's friendly, walkable, and one of the UK's most affordable student cities. With a diverse community and societies for every interest, you'll find your tribe here too.

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