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(Português) Acreditação pela A3ES
Início / Design de Ambientes
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The Bachelor’s Degree in Interior and Spatial Design offers specialised higher education, focusing on the study, planning, development and supervision of the production/construction of indoor and outdoor environment solutions.
The training focus of the course covers a wide range of areas. It bridges the gap between object and equipment design (the nature of which is defined and demanded by the intended spatial contexts and where there is a close relationship between these). It encompasses designs for compact personal spaces, temporary or transient areas and stable indoor and/or outdoor environments, whether they are hybrid or long-standing.
Environmental design is also interested in solutions for urban support infrastructure (street furniture, directional and communication supports, modular constructions and micro spaces for housing, work or leisure), as well as intervention solutions in the definition of small-scale green spaces.
Projects in Interior and Spatial Design, which can be public or private in nature, encompass residential, commercial, industrial, exhibition, leisure, stage settings, green spaces, digital/virtual sceneries, as well as a range of other possible contexts. They focus on solutions going from defining and organising new spaces to proposing alternative scenarios for redesigning, redefining and reorganising previously existing contexts.
Interior and Spatial Design not only addresses environmental conservation but also emphasises its rehabilitation or restoration, particularly when linked to architectural, landscape, or urban development endeavours.
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National Access Application to Higher Education (CNAES)
Entrance Exams:
one of the following:
[03] Drawing |
[10] Descriptive Geometry |
[12] History of Culture and the Arts
Preferred Regions
50% for candidates living in the districts of Braga, Porto and Viana do Castelo
Preferred Qualifications
Given the wide range of possible areas, please see the Guide to Accessing Higher Education, published by the Ministry of Education.
Vacancies: 30 (subject to change)
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Special Admissions
– Portuguese Diplomatic Mission Abroad
– Portuguese Grant Holders Abroad or Civil Servants on an Official Mission Abroad
– Officers of the Portuguese Armed Forces
– PALOP grant holders
– Accredited Foreign Diplomatic Mission in Portugal
– High Performance Sports Practitioners
– East-Timor Citizens
Special Entry Routes
– Over 23s
– Holders of a Technological Specialisation Diploma
– Holders of a Higher Professional Technical Diploma
– Holders of other Higher Education qualifications
– Special Entry Route for International Students
Re-entry, Change of Combination/Institution/Course
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The main aims of the Bachelor’s Degree in Interior and Spatial Design are as follows:
- To promote and expand design culture among its students, the academic community and other scientific areas, the local community, direct and indirect stakeholders, occasional or regular partners and society as a whole.
- To train professionals to be capable of assuming leadership responsibility for processes in the fields of design or Environmental Design consultancy.
- To enhance the analytical and critical sense of the students in terms of contemporary issues and problems of a social, cultural, anthropological, aesthetic, technical or other nature, which can become differentiating perspectives and new models for action, as well as offering solutions for the constraints of daily life in the present and in the future.
- To explore and develop individual and collective capacities for action, entrepreneurship and the ability to integrate into different professional environments, where training in Environmental Design can make a valuable contribution.
- To encourage the first approaches between academically developed expertise and the normal conditions and demands of working environments.
- To enable students to join the labour market.
To supervise the integration of students into the academic environment and monitor their departure and integration into a professional work setting.
Graduate profile
The profile of the Environmental Designer is a result of the combination of the expertise, skills and competences required to develop the process of designing spaces and their constituent parts, in the form of project proposals or work in the provision of consultancy services.
Environmental Design graduates aim to incorporate a degree of innovation into their work by honing conceptual, formal, functional and technical qualities, while seeking to define and/or improve relationships between people, the environment they live in, the objects they handle and the relationships they maintain with their fellow human beings.
To this end, Environmental Design graduates will be able to:
- Be part of multidisciplinary project development teams in environment design.
- Identify the opportunities and conceptual, cultural, economic, production/construction constraints, etc. that guide and direct their work.
- Use research and investigative tools to access and collect data in order to better contextualise and substantiate the choices made in the course of the work to be carried out.
- Define the aims, criteria, human and technical resources required and the timetable to be met during the different phases of environment design process.
- Develop analytical and critical thinking about the everyday reality of the spatial and temporal environments in which their work is situated.
- Identify the cognitive, semiotic, semantic, cultural, social, interactive and ecological values appropriate to the context of the work to be carried out.
- Identify the ergonomic, technical, safety and legal aspects of their work.
- Make decisions and implement their proposals using tools such as design and development drawings, technical drawings, rendering, photographs, mock-ups, models or prototypes that best demonstrate the results obtained in the initial, intermediate and final stages.
- Come up with technical production and construction solutions.
- Draw up detailed plans and the corresponding specifications.
- Design, develop and validate the solutions devised by the work teams and monitor the construction/production of environments.
- Prepare, validate and supervise project or consultancy processes in environmental design.
The profile of the Environmental Design graduate is suited to working in companies, offices and other organisations involved in the production/construction of environments. They can work as part of a team, as a freelancer or as a consultant.
Professional outcomes
- Specialised senior-level professionals working in design studios, companies specialising in the production and construction of environments, R&D offices, local authorities and other public or private bodies, as well as other work settings requiring expertise appropriate to the profile of the Environmental Design professional.
- Self-employed professionals (freelancers), who work occasionally or regularly with organisations that request their services, seeking to respond to a programme addressed to them or which they help to draw up and which provides the basis for the type of work involved, the contractual conditions and the constraints of the work to be carried out.
- Teachers in the specialised areas of their training.
Study Plan
| Curricular Unit | Area | Type | Contact hours | ECTS | PUC |
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| Introdução ao Projecto I | ADH | S1 | PL:94.00 | 9.00 | |
| Desenho I | ADH | S1 | PL:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| História da Arte e da Cultura | ADH | S1 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Fatores Humanos I | ADH | S1 | TP:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Maquetagem | ADH | S1 | TP:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| Fotografia | ADH | S1 | TP:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Introdução ao Projecto II | ADH | S2 | PL:94.00 | 9.00 | |
| Desenho II | ADH | S2 | PL:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| História e Crítica do Design | ADH | S2 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Fatores Humanos II | ADH | S2 | TP:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Desenho Técnico | ADH | S2 | PL:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| Materiais de Construção | EMM | S2 | TP:32.00 | 3.00 |
| Curricular Unit | Area | Type | Contact hours | ECTS | PUC |
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| Projeto de Ambientes I | ADH | S1 | PL:94.00 | 9.00 | |
| Desenho III | ADH | S1 | PL:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| História da Arquitectura s. XX | ADH | S1 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Desenho Técnico Avançado | ADH | S1 | PL:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| Sistemas Construtivos | ADH | S1 | TP:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Materiais de Revestimento e Acabamento I | EMM | S1 | TP:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Projeto de Ambientes II | ADH | S2 | PL:94.00 | 9.00 | |
| Animação de Ambientes 3D | EIM | S2 | PL:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| História do Design de Interiores | ADH | S2 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Modulação 3D | ADH | S2 | TP:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| Instalações | EC | S2 | TP:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Materiais de Revestimento e Acabamento II | EMM | S2 | TP:32.00 | 3.00 |
| Curricular Unit | Area | Type | Contact hours | ECTS | PUC |
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| Projeto de Ambientes III/ Estágio | ADH | A | E:94.00 | 9.00 | |
| Laboratoría da luz para ambientes | ADH | S1 | PL:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| Formação em Contexto Empresarial I | ADH | S1 | TC:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Design de Comunicação | ADH | S1 | PL:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| Medições/Orçamentos | ADH | S1 | TP:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Material Vegetal | ADH | S1 | TP:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Projeto de Ambientes IV | ADH | S2 | PL:94.00 | 9.00 | |
| Formação em Contexto Empresarial II | ADH | S2 | TC:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Comunicação e Multimédia | EIM | S2 | TP:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| Segurança e Saúde no Trabalho | EIM | S2 | TP:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Materiais e Sustentabilidade | EMM | S2 | TP:32.00 | 3.00 |
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95.9%
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Acreditação e registo
Com Acreditação em 2016, por 6 anos | Limite de vagas fixado: 30
Registo inicial: R/A-Ef 685/2011 de 18-03-2011
Registos de alteração: R/A-Ef 685/2011/AL01 de 18-03-2019
Mais informação em Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior-A3ES: https://www.a3es.pt/pt/resultados-acreditacao/design-de-ambientes-2
Informação Geral
180 ECTS | 6 Semestres | CNAEF 214 Design | Código: 9723
Grau atribuído: Licenciado
N.º do Processo: ACEF/2021/0421772
Número de Anos de Acreditação: 6
Data da Publicação: 27-07-2023
Mais informação em Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior | A3ES: Aqui
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