View our students' projects

Looking to be inspired? Discover what you could create and achieve on the BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design course. Explore the projects of our Class of 2026 below.

A modern glass-walled building integrated into a stone ruin beside a river, with lit interiors, trees, and steps leading to the water at dusk.

A curved black metal balcony railing surrounds an indoor atrium with hanging green plants and light wood flooring.

A woman stands beside a blank canvas on an easel in a spacious studio, with another woman seated at a desk in the background and sunlight across the wooden floor.

People walk through a modern interior with a curved staircase, pendant lights and red tiled wall panels.

A modern interior atrium with a curved glass roof, white columns and wooden balconies, featuring a tall green mesh wall on the left and potted plants below.

In Between examines adaptive reuse and interior design transforming the abandoned Norman House into supportive space for displaced users, addressing transition, restoring routine, belonging, stability through circulation, materials, and spatial systems.

The Quiet Bloom redesigns women’s healthcare at Midland House into compassionate, community-focused spaces, addressing marginalisation, supporting chronic conditions, and fostering privacy, wellbeing, and collective care through calming, nature-inspired void design.

The proposal creates a specialised, memory-supportive facility offering day visits for people with dementia, encouraging independence, structured cognitive engagement, self-expression, and ensuring safety through trained staff and supportive care environments.

This innovative project proposes a marine circular economy hub transforming waste into materials, products, and experiences, demonstrating closed-loop systems, supporting sustainability, education, dining, and showcasing marine byproducts like leather and bioplastics.

This project adapts an existing library using biophilic, human-centred design to combat Sick Building Syndrome, improving air quality, acoustics, and wellbeing through multi-sensory zones, plants, materials, and spatial strategies integrated.

A restored brick building with a red 'GRAND' sign and striped awning, with people walking and standing outside on the pavement.

Three women carrying cardboard boxes in a fabric store, with shelves of folded textiles, hanging lights and a round wooden table in the foreground.

A cutaway architectural model of a multi-storey building with exposed interior rooms, shown against a pastel pink illustrated background.

A cutaway illustration of a multi-storey house showing several rooms, staircases and mannequins in different positions.

A technical line drawing of a multi-storey building section showing furnished rooms, stairwells and balconies.

This project transforms a bingo hall into a hybrid showroom and café, blending retail, exhibition and social space, creating immersive experiences while preserving character, encouraging community engagement, and sustainable design

Threads transforms Bournemouth’s Beales building into a sustainable textile hub, fostering creativity, collaboration, and community through workshops, labs, exhibitions, and reuse practices, reconnecting people with craft, materials, and local cultural production.

Serenity reimagines Midland House as a compassionate breast cancer centre, supporting emotional wellbeing, treatment, and recovery through biophilic design, fostering dignity, connection, and community while reducing fear, isolation, and disruption.

This project proposes a accommodation model supporting individuals experiencing burnout, instability, or change, offering affordable, emotionally supportive spaces using solid forms, carved voids, natural materials, balancing permanence with spatial enclosure.

Pinnacle is a flexible hybrid office promoting creativity and wellbeing, offering collaborative, quiet, and adaptable workspaces, plus social, wellness, and fitness facilities, supporting diverse work styles through a reservable system.

A 3D-rendered model of brick residential buildings beside a canal, with a fenced circular structure and trees on the grass nearby.

An architectural cutaway drawing shows a long two-storey building with rooms and figures inside, with birds in the sky and trees at the right.

A large geodesic dome structure with a colourful indoor garden and illuminated trees, viewed from outside on a paved walkway.

A modern interior space with a black spiral staircase and mirrored central column, where several people stand and walk among sculptural installations and benches.

An architectural cutaway illustration of a modern house with open rooms, furniture and a central sitting area, surrounded by trees in the background.

The Metabolic Mill transforms a historic site into a regenerative, biophilic living laboratory, supporting mental wellbeing, community resilience, and sustainability through adaptive reuse, natural systems, and socially driven, resource-efficient design strategies.

The Last Miller creates an immersive, multi-sensory experience in Throop Mill, using narrative, puzzles, and interaction to explore heritage, memory, and human connection, transforming history into an active, emotional journey.

This project proposes an immersive installation inspired by marine ecosystems and bioluminescence, using responsive architecture, sensors, and algae to engage visitors, fostering interactive learning, emotional connection, and ocean conservation awareness.

The project reimagines Throop Mill as a cultural hub where emerging artists collaborate with luxury brands, blending heritage, fashion, making, and exhibition through seasonal collections, competition, and public engagement.

A people-first restaurant designed for neurodivergent customers and staff, using forest-inspired natural elements to create calm sensory spaces while providing meaningful employment, independence, confidence, and social inclusion and equal opportunities.

People stand at a long counter in an industrial-style food hall with hanging lights, copper pipes and brick walls, while sunlight streams through large windows.

A museum gallery with decorative pottery and sculptural artefacts on low plinths, lit by hanging lanterns and backed by ornate patterned screens.

An interior design infographic shows three overlapping room zones with numbered panels, including a doorway, shelving and a pink sofa, over a pale background with purple arrows and labels.

A cross-section drawing of a large building with a tiled roof, showing rooms, stairs and several small figures inside, with a pink cloudy sky in the background.

A detailed architectural scale model of a modern building interior, showing two floors with open rooms, furniture and a curved white roof.

Roots explores how spatial design fosters connection, discovery, and support for Dorset businesses, using visibility and sensory engagement, while communal spaces encourage interaction, inclusivity, and strengthen community ties and heritage.

Wahda Collective reimagines the Islamic centre as an inclusive, sustainable, community-focused space, integrating worship, learning, and social interaction through interconnected design inspired by natural systems, fostering unity, wellbeing, and environmental responsibility.

This project redefines early dementia care through restorative residential setting, supporting women’s identity and independence via therapeutic interior design, structured zones, sequencing, and wayfinding that reinforce routine, autonomy, clarity, and control.

The Turning Wheel creates an inclusive environment addressing loneliness, encouraging shared meals, social connection, and conversation, empowering solo and group guests while promoting wellbeing through communal, empathetic, and engaging experiences.

A modular retail infrastructure that applies Design for Disassembly (DD) principles to enable long-term adaptability, component reuse and circular material strategies within an adaptive reuse context.

A woman and a child sit at a wooden table in a bright library, with bookshelves along the walls and large windows in the background.

A sectional architectural drawing of a modern multi-storey building with staircases, rooms and large window openings shown in cross-section on a white background.

Close-up of a pale pink textured paper surface with fine crumpled lines.

A modern building model with a green roof and solar panels, set among white architectural blocks on a pale background.

Illustration of a courtyard outside a multi-storey building with labelled doors to the canteen and staircase, benches, picnic tables, shrubs and a swing set.

Dandelion House is a Bournemouth co‑housing community uniting families, students and retirees through compact private homes and generous shared spaces, fostering social connection, intergenerational support, public engagement, and collective wellbeing.

Interim is a collaborative creative agency supporting graduates facing unstable transitions by offering short-term placements, real projects, shared studios, and sustainable material practices, building skills, confidence, and pathways into employment.

This project addresses elderly loneliness and food poverty through co-living and shared gardening, fostering social connection, purpose, and fresh food production for vulnerable communities within an integrated support system.

The Social Creation is a postgraduate training centre for creative graduates, integrating cultivation, material processing, and fabrication within a single site.

This project designs a Passivhaus educational facility improving post-16 students’ cognition, wellbeing and performance through high-quality air, stable temperatures, MVHR systems, efficient envelope, and clear spatial zoning supporting concentration levels.

A cutaway of a modern two-storey home showing a family in the living room and garden, with hanging pendant lights, a staircase, plants and two geodesic domes in the lower area.

A cutaway architectural rendering of a multi-storey building with people shown in various rooms and balconies, set against a pale sky.

An illustrated cross-section of a multi-storey building shows furnished rooms with red walls and potted plants, beside a grey facade with many windows and a camera tripod in the foreground.

A seated audience faces a speaker at the front of a modern hall with tall wooden walls, a marble floor and a large circular skylight casting beams of light.

An isometric illustration of a multi-level building with staggered floors, staircases and small furnishings on each level.

Growing Minds creates a biophilic, sensory learning space reconnecting children with nature, encouraging curiosity, independence, and wellbeing through tactile design, while fostering parent-child connection within a calm, nurturing environment.

The project transforms food support into a restorative civic space, fostering social cohesion, dignity, and belonging through nature, inclusive design, and shared experiences that encourage interaction, wellbeing, and community connection.

Heath House reimagines student accommodation through biophilic, sensory-rich design, replacing sterile minimalism with an indoor garden that promotes wellbeing, connection, comfort, and a stronger sense of home.

Liminal reintroduces death into urban life, transforming Midland House into a civic space for mourning, using ritual, materiality, light, and sequences to support visible, collective and personal experiences of grief.

This study analyses internal spatial logic by isolating floor plates, demonstrating vertical zoning for behavioural needs and a self-supporting architectural system that preserves the historic structure while enabling flexible, biophilic, user-focused design.

View our students' projects

Image 1 | In Between

Image 2 | The Quiet Bloom

Image 3 | Memory Lane

Image 4 | The Loop

Image 5 | Reimagining Existing Libraries as Public Third Spaces

Image 1 | Westbourne Living House

Image 2 | Threads

Image 3 | Serenity

Image 4 | A Carved Refuge

Image 5 | Pinnacle

Image 1 | The Metabolic Mill

Image 2 | The Last Miller

Image 3 | Luminnexus

Image 4 | Old Mill Atelier Foundation

Image 5 | Viridian

Image 1 | Roots

Image 2 | Wahda Collective

Image 3 | Triarch House

Image 4 | The Turning Wheel

Image 5 | Adaptive Reuse in Retail Interior

Image 1 | Dandelion House

Image 2 | Interim

Image 3 | Retronym

Image 4 | The Social Creation

Image 5 | St Michael's Passivhaus Sixth Form

Image 1 | Growing Minds

Image 2 | The Cultivate Collective

Image 3 | Heath House

Image 4 | Liminal

Image 5 | Milon