Bachelor Interior Architecture & Furniture Design

There is not one formula or way to create a portfolio. A portfolio is a visual representation of you. We are curious about your passions and interests as a maker, your working methods, capabilities and your potential. The portfolio can also be personal and reflect your view on the world.

You can include a variety of recent 2D and 3D work relevant to the field of art, design and architecture. You can include school or course assignments, work made on your own initiative, try-outs, and unfinished work. You can think of material experiments, sketches (analogue and digital), drawings, paintings, photographs, collages, floorplans and models, and also of documentation of performances or short films.

The portfolio does not need to be designed – the focus should be on the content. It gives an insight into your working processes, so put some thought into the work you select and how and in what order you present it. Use a landscape format, as the committee reviews it on a laptop. You also have the option to integrate URLs or other links.

Keep in mind that the PDF portfolio should not exceed 10MB, max 20 pages. This ensures that your work is presented efficiently during the evaluation process.

Check out  this page  for tips on putting together a portfolio.

Your resume contains information about your previous education, (relevant) working experience and internships. Please upload your CV/resume in a separate PDF, max 2 pages.

Through the questionnaire, we would like to find out more about your interests and motives for choosing this study programme.

Download the questionnaire . 

Please fill out the questionnaire and submit it in Osiris during your application process and bring a copy to the admission day.

Shelter for the living

The shelter is purposefully an open assignment. The kind of shelter you want to design is up to you. It can be a shelter for all kinds of living entities and creatures, small or big. It can be a building structure, housing, or a hut. It can be an object, wearable, or a piece of clothing. The shelter can be a quick fix using everyday objects, it can be ephemeral, or a proposal of something that lasts longer.

The assignment covers a full design process, which should be presented in 1 PDF file, as 3 separate deliverables. Keep in mind that the PDF should not exceed 10MB, max 20 pages.

Deliverable 1: Process book

• This workbook includes all your design steps. It shows how you work and think, how you got to your design proposal for the ‘Shelter for the living’, and the choices you have made in each step of your process.

• Ingredients can include: text, writings, interviews, mind-maps, video, photographs, other visualizations, doodles, sketches, drawings, preliminary designs, rejected concepts, material try-outs, floorplans, quick scale models, and also initial ideas, research, (reference) images, or texts that inspired you.

• Walk around your neighborhood and choose a starting point for your shelter that you are familiar with, that intrigues, triggers, or perhaps irritates or bothers you. Look around you to get inspired and choose materials that are perhaps already at hand. Use the skills you have resourcefully in the process of clarifying your take on the topic, and while designing your proposal. Your shelter design does not have to conform to any particular design or architectural conventions!

Deliverable 2: Drawings - user(s) & context

• Make a series of drawings relating to meetings and encounters located at, or in relation to, your shelter. In the drawings, you connect your shelter design to its user(s) and context.

• Required ingredients: 5 to 12 drawings. Techniques and format are your choice.

• Visualize which user your shelter is intended for and where it is located. Give diverse impressions of the shelter (interior and exterior) in relation to its surroundings (context). Choose an angle that interests you and sparks your (and our) curiosity, and that tells us what social issues you care about.  Use the skills you already have and show what you can do with them. Again, your drawings do not have to conform to certain design or architectural principles or requirements. 

Deliverable 3: 3D model & visual communication

• Visually present your 3D model. This deliverable is both the execution and communication phase. It ties all elements of your design for ‘Shelter for the living’ together. It does not include process or process images, or textual explanations.

• Required ingredients: a physical 3D model + a maximum of 5 images (visual communication) of your model. The visual communication can be created in analogue or digital. Think of photographs, a collage, a video, a booklet, a poster or a film (in addition to your physical model).

• Document and visually communicate your shelter in such way that it clearly conveys your ideas for your ‘Shelter for the living’.