Interior Architecture and Spatial Design BA Welcome Pack
Welcome to Interior Architecture and Spatial Design BA 2025.
We would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to your studies at the University of Northampton. The purpose of this document is to help you prepare for coming to study with us and give you an opportunity to meet members of your programme team as well as other students who’ve chosen the same course. We want to make sure that you are inspired, anchored, prepared, and enabled to succeed.
Through engaging with our welcome and induction activities you will get to know your super-supportive tutors, have a chance to make new friends and be able to access what you need to know and do to start studying successfully. Ultimately, we want you to feel confident about how you will learn.
This Welcome Pack covers the following key areas:
- A welcome message from your Programme Leader
- Details of online Welcome and Induction sessions scheduled during the second half of August and the first three weeks in September
- Technical information to make joining these sessions as easy as possible
- What happens during Welcome and Induction Week – meeting with your Personal Tutor and other University-wide events
Your Course Leader
Nasir Ahmed
Senior Lecturer
Welcome and Induction Sessions
This is your induction timetable with online session starting on 9th September 2025, and in-person sessions starting on 22 September 2025. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Naz: Nasir.Ahmed@northampton.ac.uk
Tuesday, 9 September
Session: Meet the Team
- Time: 10:30 – 11:30am (BST)
- Link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/6aa891e77d11490e892806b5309e2b0d
Monday 22 September
Session: Welcome & Introductions – meet the course leader, tutors and fellow students. Introduction to the course, it’s structure and studio culture.
- Time: 10am-12.30pm (BST)
- Location: CH101, Creative Hub (first floor), Waterside campus
Session: Library Induction & Essential Equipment
- Time: 1.30 – 4pm (BST)
- Location: meeting in the Library, Learning Hub (second floor), Waterside campus
Tuesday, 23 September
Session: Studio Activity
- Time: 10am – 12.30pm (BST)
- Location: CH101, Creative Hub (first floor), Waterside campus
Session: Exploring the Town
- Time: 1.30pm – 4pm (BST)
- Location: Creative Hub, IASD Studio, Room CH101 & Library, Waterside campus
Monday 6 October
We are organising a trip to London to an exhibition at the Tate Modern
Monday 22 September – Friday 3 October
Welcome Week activities
From karaoke to outdoor cinema, wellbeing walks to Silent Disco, and much more – there’s something suitable for everyone.
See our Welcome timetable to find out more.
Equipment
From week one you will be engaged in design work that will involve drawing and making. You will therefore need to come prepared with some drawing equipment and materials of your own. We therefore recommend that you bring the following:
Essential drawing equipment
- T Square 60mm
- Adjustable Set Square or set of 45/45 and 30/60 Squares
- Scale Ruler with 1:200/100/50/20/10/5 scales
- Mechanical drawing pencil 0.5/0.3
- Recommended: A2 drawing board with parallel motion
Essential drawing materials
- Graphite sketching pencils
- Colour pencils
- Black marker pen
- Layout paper (A2/ A3)
- A sketchbook
- Spray mount adhesive
Essential model making equipment
- Ruler (stainless steel or aluminium) 60mm
- Craft knife
- Glue gun and glue sticks
- A3 or A4 cutting mat
- Masking tape, double-sided tape
- Eraser
- Simple compass
- Scissors
- Scalpel
- A2 Portfolio display book
- Pritt stick
Recommended Reading
- Brooker, Graeme. Adaptations. Strategies for Interior Architecture and Design. Bloomsbury Visual Arts. 2016
- Brooker, Graeme and Stone, Sally. Re readings2. Interior architecture and design principles of remodelling existing buildings. RIBA Enterprises. 2018.
- Cramer, Johannes. Architecture in existing fabric: planning, design and building. Birkhäuser. 2007
- Davies, Colin. Thinking about Architecture. An Introduction to architectural Theory. Laurence King. 2011.
- Grimley, Chris and Love, Mimi. The Interior Design Reference and Specification Book. Rockport Publishers Inc. 2018.
- Plunkett, Drew. Drawing for Interior Design. Laurence King. 2009.
- Travis, Stephanie. Sketching for architecture + interior design. Laurence King. 2015.
- Schittich, Christian. Building in existing fabric. Birkhäuser. 2003
- Delaney, Miriam and Gorman, Anne. Studio Craft & Technique for Architects. Second Edition. Laurence King. 2022