Interior and Spatial Design

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.