Interior Design

Students are introduced to key visual images, sculptures, and buildings in the Western cultural tradition: their features, materials, interrelationships, and social, religious, economic, and political contexts. After brief grounding in the visual culture of the ancient world and Middle Ages, the course focuses on painting, architecture / built environment, sculpture, photography and other products of visual culture in Europe and the Americas from the 1400s CE to the present. The Renaissance, Mannerism, the Baroque, Neoclassicism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Modernism and Post-Modernism are addressed. Influences on Western art from China, Japan, India, and Africa are also briefly considered. Through studying how visual culture has been defined, classified, ranked, and analyzed in Western culture – an approach established in Renaissance Europe – course participants will be equipped to contextualize the built environment, and past and current images.
Prerequisite(s):

• C+ in Grade 12 English

COMM 2320 is an applied course building on the skills learned in COMM 1120. The course will enable you to develop the persuasive writing and the presentation skills you will need to succeed in your program and at work.
Prerequisite(s):

• 70% in COMM 1120

This course is comprised of the exploration and application of design theories and processes relating to the built environment. Projects will promote an awareness of sensory perception and concepts of sustainability. Students will participate in class discussions and present their ideas orally.
Prerequisite(s):

• 50% in ENGL 1177
• Entrance requirements for the Diploma.

This course encourages students to produce creative, detailed lighting design solutions for commercial spaces. Emphasis will be on concepts for lighting, practical applications, specifications and methods to enhance the experience of interior environments. Students will create reflected ceiling plans that incorporates advanced lighting solutions and ceiling details. Photometrics will be examined and applied to interior spaces for evaluation, discussion and implementation.
Prerequisite(s):

• 65% in INTD 3100 and 65% in INTD 4320

​This course covers the basics of Autodesk Revit for Windows as used in the Interior Design industry, from design through construction documentation. Students will be introduced to the tools and concepts of working with a fully parametric building model. As part of this course, the student will complete a small commercial project. Delivery of the course will concentrate on real world approaches and methodology rather than step by step procedures.
Prerequisite(s):

• 65% in INTD 4320

The emphasis of the course is on workplace and retail design. Students will create distinctive design concepts, branding and planning for retail spaces. Students will implement the design process for planning offices and apply their knowledge of systems furniture within a large workplace floor plate. A process journal will be developed during the course to document research, concept sketches, ideas, notes, and other inspirations.
Prerequisite(s):

• 65% in INTD 3100^† (^† may be taken concurrently)
• Entrance requirements for the Diploma.

This course builds and expands on knowledge gained in previous material courses as they apply to commercial interior projects. Students will prepare specifications for various materials with consideration of their physical properties and appropriate applications. Focus will be on sourcing responsible materials for the interior environment.
Prerequisite(s):

• 50% in ENGL 1177
• Entrance requirements for the Diploma.

Students will acquire advanced skills in digital illustration using SketchUp and rendering software through the application of advanced techniques in lighting, 3-D modeling and texturing to create photo-realistic images of interiors. Students will exhibit their proficiency of a professional presentation using an interior design project.
Prerequisite(s):

• 50% in ENGL 1177 and 70% in COMM 1120
• Entrance Requirements for the Diploma.

​Students will be introduced to Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) as it applies to interior design. ​
Prerequisite(s):

• 65% in INTD 3360

This course will examine the interior built environment as it relates to human physical and psychological needs. Sustainable principles embodied by WELL, LEED, Cradle to Cradle philosophy, Living Building Challenge (LBC), Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and other environmental methodologies, as related to interior design.
Prerequisite(s):

• 50% in ENGL 1177
• Entrance Requirements for the Diploma.

This course provides students with a fundamental understanding of both residential wood frame construction and commercial steel stud construction. Students will produce a partial model for a variety of stages of wood frame construction. Field trips to commercial and residential construction sites will supplement lecture material.
Prerequisite(s):

• 65% in INTD 4320

This studio will introduce students to the design of millwork and freestanding custom furniture for residential and commercial spaces. Students will explore materials used for millwork and custom furniture, methods of joinery, hardware types, and different wood species and their characteristics. Detailed working drawings will be produced.
Prerequisite(s):

• 65% in INTD 3100 and 65% in INTD 3300 and 65% in INTD 3320 and 65% in INTD 4320 and 65% in INTD 4300*^† and 70% in JOIN 4350 (^† may be taken concurrently)

Students will work through a hospitality project, applying design theories and processes to create a comprehensive solution that supports human behaviour within the built environment. Students will translate and implement their concept and design development by producing a set of interior construction drawings. Students will research and explore design concepts derived from conceptual and spatial analysis to produce a creative solution that responds to factors such as health, life safety, and welfare, in addition to functional and aesthetic considerations. Students will demonstrate the ability to work through the design process to create innovative design solutions that support conceptual and spatial analysis.
Prerequisite(s):

• 65% in INTD 3300 and 65% in INTD 3320 and 65% in INTD 3240^† and 65% in INTD 3360 and 65% in INTD 4320 and 65% in INTD 4360^† (^† may be taken concurrently)

This course will build on student’s previous construction drawing knowledge to complete a set of commercial construction drawings based on their design solutions, using the current release of AutoCAD for Windows.
Prerequisite(s):

• 50% in ENGL 1177
• Entrance Requirements for the Diploma.

​This course will introduce students to the latest edition of the BC Building Code Part 3 as it applies to interior design. Students will apply a working knowledge of compliance, code objectives, definitions and appendices as they relate to the built environment. They will locate and interpret the applicable codes to make appropriate design decisions required for fire protection, occupant safety and accessibility. The course examines the importance of establishing life safety issues, occupancy classification, fire ratings and separations, and means of egress as they relate to the built environment. Lab exercises provide students with an opportunity to practice code applications for a variety of building conditions. ​
Prerequisite(s):

• 65% in INTD 3300 and 65% in INTD 3320 and 65% in INTD 4320

This course will focus on the relationship between Cabinetmaking (Millwork) and Design. Students will have the opportunity to interact with professional cabinetmakers. Students will work in BCIT's millwork shop to gain hands-on experience.
Prerequisite(s):

• 70% in COMM 1120
• Entrance Requirements for the Diploma

This is a course in advanced composition and rhetoric, in which students will develop skills in complex critical analysis and interpretation by analyzing and evaluating materials from a variety of discourses or genres, including visual, online, and print; developing and writing essays, including critiques and research papers; applying and discussing principles of rhetoric and critical theory; examining and using methods of interpretation and analysis from the humanities and social sciences; evaluating the credibility of primary and secondary sources, including as it applies to media literacy, and for the purposes of academic research; situating discourses within their historical context and relevant to rhetorical theories of different periods (for example, Aristotle in the ancient world and Bakhtin in the twentieth century). The course format will include lecture, discussion, and both individual and group activities.
Prerequisite(s):

• BCIT ENGL 1177 or equivalent, or 6 credits BCIT Communication at 1100-level or above, or 3 credits of a university/college first-year social science or humanities course.