Spaces of Display: Exhibition Design

BK-MI-145

During this interiors minor, students design a (small) exhibition space with a fully detailed fragment of the building or interior. The minor consists of two quarters, each divided into two separate courses: The Design project and the Tools course.

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Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment

Language: English

Maximum participants: 25

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For Whom?

See the information below.

What will you learn?

Students design a small space for a carefully selected artefact and its users, students design and build a fragment of the building on different scale levels

Course overview

30 EC

Education methods

Design project, excursion, lectures and workshops

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For registration please visit minors.tudelft.nl

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Contact information and student experience

For whom?

  • BSc students from TU Delft: BSc programme of Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences.
  • BSc students from Leiden University and Erasmus University: this minor is not open to students from Leiden University and Erasmus University.
  • BSc students from other Dutch universities: this minor is not open to students from other Dutch universities.
  • BSc students from HBO: students from HBO institutions (Architecture or Industrial Design) are asked to provide a letter of motivation to establish whether you have the right frame of reference.

What will you learn?

During the first quarter, students design a small space for a carefully selected artefact and its users at a specific location in a city (Spaces of Display 1). The Tools Course (Tools for Spaces of Display 1) focuses on specific skills that contribute to a coherent design project. Students learn how to work within the complex combination of these 'tools'. Various workshops and lectures focus on the position of the designer, the relationship to the city, the design of a space within the field of the exhibition branch, and the analysis of reference projects based on relevant themes. Based on a thorough analysis of the location in the city, the choice is made for the artefact/product and a specific user group. This allows the possibility to explore the full range of related interventions.

At the end of Q1 you will:

  • have acquired knowledge, insights and skills in the domains of architectural and interior design, analysis, and presentation;
  • have the skill to establish the connection between idea, function and material elaboration of a small scale design;
  • have knowledge of different cultural and social conditions, and awareness of their implication and effects on architecture and the interior;
  • be able to develop a consistent architectonic / interior design. This covers the materialisation of the overall space as well as the design of a lighting scheme;
  • have developed abilities in the targeted analysis of design precedents and the effective representation and communication of findings, using various representation techniques as well as digital and physical models.

Course overview

  • Spaces of Display 1 (BK7064) (Design project - 10 ECs)
  • Tools for Spaces of Design 1 (BK7066) (Lectures/ analysis/workshops - 5 ECs)

For course descriptions, please visit the study guide.

What will you learn?

During the second quarter, students design and build a fragment of the building on different scale levels (1:10/1:5 and sometimes even 1:1) based on the outcome of their space or display (or that of a fellow student) designed in Q1. This design project (Spaces of Display 2) runs parallel to a Tool course (Tools for Spaces of Display 2). The workshops and lectures in this quarter make a substantial contribution to the theme of the project.

At the end of Q2 you will:

  • have the skill to establish the connection between idea, function and material elaboration of a fragment of the building / interior;
  • have acquired knowledge, insights and skills in the domains of furniture / interior design, analysis and presentation;
  • have developed abilities in the targeted analysis of design precedents and the effective representation and communication of findings, using various representation techniques as well as digital and physical models;
  • be able to develop a consistent fragment. This covers the materialisation of the object itself as well as the detailed scale; the processing of technical and aesthetic aspects plays an essential part in this.

Course overview

  • Spaces of Display 2 (BK7065) (Design project - 10 ECs)
  • Tools for Spaces of Design 2 (BK7067) (Lectures/ analysis/workshops – 5 ECs)

For course descriptions, please visit the study guide.

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Students about this minor:

“Spaces of Display is a full semester of taking a closer look at exhibition design. For me, zooming in on the details was something new, different but most of all very inspiring. To top it off, we designed our own exhibition at the end of the course in which we could put everything we had learned into practice. It was great to see everyone’s reactions to our design at the exhibition opening!"

- Julia van der Ploeg

“As an architecture student, the minor adds a new level of detail to the knowledge we have. It’s a creative and inspiring minor and the opportunity it gives to work something out in 1:1 scale challenges you in a fun and interesting way.”
- Renzo Westerbeek

Ir. Leontine de Wit