Interior Architecture and Design Foundation

Liveness 2021 (Archive)

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Axonometric drawing of bathroom showing inhabitation by Barbara Nguyen

In the Architecture + Interior Design studio we like to think through drawing and making. Students on the course learn techniques for drawing spaces and situations in different ways, as well as making models, devices, and three-dimensional objects. Students test and expand their knowledge and understanding through open-ended projects which explore the many modes of spatial design, and give space for students to follow their own interests.

The projects on these pages were produced in a highly unusual year, deeply marked by successive lockdowns, in a fluid studio space located at times physically on campus or the City of London and other times virtually linking the student’s and tutors' own homes.

Two images next to each other showing a silvery headpiece worn by a seated student and viewed from above. The headpiece is made from segments that close over the head and has little windows letting the light inside of the helmet

Gallery of student work

Two images next to each other showing a silvery headpiece worn by a seated student and viewed from above. The headpiece is made from segments that close over the head and has little windows letting the light inside of the helmet

An image made out of multiple small photos taken from different angles and collaged together that show the interior of a student's bedroom

A plan drawing of the pavement in front of a house, showing also the inside plan of a room

A model wearing a cape with a hoodie is shown in multiple instances advancing through a misty garden. As she goes on she slowly reveals her head from underneath a hood

A person wearing a device that looks like a mask with a trunk-like tube attached to the mouth and a longer extension they use to pick up things from the floor. They are gathering garbage with it and throwing it in a bin

Two images next two each other showing a seated female model from the back facing a wall with a window. The model holds a device to their ear which looks like a tube that is fixed to the table and points outside the window

An overhead view looking inside an at-scale model of a livingroom

A model is seen wearing a clothing piece made out of a skirt and a corset. The corset is made out of cones to hold churros and potato chips and the skirt becomes a chair. The model demonstrates how this is happening in a series of images

An axonometric pencil drawing of a section of a room inside the university. A series of large windows can be seen, including multiple divisions

A male model crosses the street in a series of 4 images wearing a white device on their back. The device has multiple arms that flex around the body. It looks similar to the legs of a spider

An exploded axonometric drawing of the components a device is made out of

A series of 4 images showing in succession sketching in coloured pencil on top of 4 black and white images of the student holding their hands in uncomfortable and impossible positions. The drawings are annotated with instructions for the student.

A drawing showing in elevation a person kneeling in front of a flowerbed. The flowers are abnormally large & the person is wearing a periscope like headpiece that allows them to experience the world like from the point of view of a minuscule person/insect

A piece of a longer movement drawing is shown, made out of layers of tracing paper and collaged printed paper showing the student stand up and slowly sit down onto a device

A plan drawing showing the inside of two buildings and the street inbetween. Small people can be seen drawn to illustrate moving about and the series of movements they do

Two images next to each other showing in comparison the inside of a room in a model on the left and the inside of the same room in reality. Both images look towards a window. There is a flower pot on the windowsill which in the model is made out of paper

A composite drawing which is a section through a house with 2 levels. A small person is collaged in multiple places in the drawing to suggest their movement through the space. The small person is seen inspecting the floor

A female student wearing a spiky, reflective headpiece, showing it from many sides. The image is trying to show how the student intended the headpiece to reflect light onto the surrounding spaces

I Am The Explorer, light reflecting device. Composite, layered drawing by Andrea Santos Betteridge

Study Interior Architecture and Design Foundation course at London Met

Architecture (including foundation year) - BA (Hons)

Tutors

Irina Georgescu
Luke Jones
Phillipa Longson

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