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analysis, space requirements, human placed on inspiration, style elements, with an opportunity to successfully of furniture design. The course will influences practice and informs ARC 590 - Building Economics
behavior, and specified concepts. and theme reflection in different work on a real interior design project enhance students’ ability to recognize design thinking. It raises the urge for
Lighting and acoustical solutions project spaces and functions. of their choice. and appreciate design programming forwarding a more sustainable way of Credit Hours: 3 (2 lecture+2 Studio)
will be implemented to create an and abstract design expressed in designing, living and thinking, given Prerequisite: IND 460 or ARC 340
appropriate interior environment. Students shall Develop design Students will complete a large-scale, sketches, and presentation drawings. the discourse on global warming This course covers the principles
Based on retail type; material solutions showing the design interior design project that utilizes Students should be able to design and the UAE’s intricate conditions of economics and its application
selection will be made bearing in concept, reflecting the design theme an existing building. The work is furniture pieces, solve furniture that return us to local solutions, in the construction and building
mind different material specs. Finally, and inspiration process. initiated in IND430. Emphasis is on design problems and produce a implemented in a contemporary industry. It conveys an appreciation
students will produce functional Focusing is placed on Codes and the design process from schematic variety of technical drawings of way. The elements of the Arab of macroeconomics, business and
solutions as project drawings. All regulation as well as, five stars design through design development. furniture pieces. This course will city are revisited for this purpose. fiscal aspects of engineering practice.
projects will be submitted and hotel regulations, and building That process terminates with the emphasize the technological aspects Hence, the Community part of the Attention is given to essential topics
evaluated face-to-face construction /technologies. completion of a very thorough of producing furniture, models, shop Estidama Pearl-rating system will be such as Market demand, Competition
series of verbal presentations and
Approaching a healthy environment drawings and presentation drawings. used to evaluate and enhance the and monopoly, Macroeconomics,
IND 340 - Interior Design Studio in design will be conducted and physical documentation of the design sustainability of a given project. That Government and fiscal policies,
solution. Facility types include but
IV considered in the final evaluation. are not limited to Health Care or IND 582 - Islamic Interiors Project is consisted of the analysis of Labour economics and Building
Students will work on the major final Credit Hours: 3 ( 3 lecture ) an existing Emirati National Housing obsolescence.
Credit Hours: 3.00 (1 lecture + 4 project as groups to achieve the Recreation/ Hospitality/ Museum/ Prerequisite: DES 220 Project and the design of alternative
Studio) teamwork experience and to satisfy Theater, etc. conceptual proposals. Within this
Prerequisite: IND315 + IND 335 assigned tasks. Students will be Each student, however, in IND430 The aim of the course is to allow the context, both an Environmental
The aim of the course is to introduce evaluated for being a successful team selects a particular building typology students to research and understand Impact Assessment and a more
Islamic buildings and interiors, and
the students to the design of office member and group harmony will be (i.e., health care facility, recreation to learn the decorative components practical/business perspective of
interiors. This course would enable considered. facility, etc.) for their particular of Islamic interiors such as patterns, sustainability shall also become part
the students to successfully design Teamwork Projects will be solved IND470 project. colors, trims and accessories with of the process.
interior spaces for administrative by the students in the context of Completion of a large interior design emphasis on mosques, madras, ARC 582 - 3D Modeling
buildings. Students will concentrate hospitality projects. Working drawing project as initiated in IND 430. palaces and fortifications.
on incorporating sustainable design for a specified spot will be fully Emphasis is on the design process Credit Hours: 3 ( 1 lecture
practices in the Interior design of generated in the working drawing from schematic design through DES 580 - Architectural + 4 Studio )
the office environment. Focusing is course IND 460. All projects will be completion of presentation drawings. Photography Prerequisite: DES 210 or ARC 280
placed on RCPs, lighting calculation, submitted and evaluated face-to-face. This course is designed to teach an
and acoustics solutions. Emphasis The students are given the Credit Hours: 3 ( 3 lecture ) advanced level of 3D modeling and
is on space planning, functional IND 460 - Working Drawings opportunity to develop their Prerequisite: DES 220 or LAR 230 animation for architects. Emphasis
requirements, and new furnishing knowledge and ability to work on This course aims to introduce will be placed on building 3D world
systems, particularly in office design. Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture + 4 studio) interior design projects. students to the basic skills and space representing various aspects
Study of the different space Facilities Prerequisite: IND 350 + ARC 420 technology of digital and film of the built environment. It will allow
including financial institutions and This course concentrates on the The final graduation project is an photography, the principles of students to build upon concepts such
institutional facilities. Students Interior Design Construction individual project integrating all photography and their relationship to as complex geometries, light effects,
will generate a full design solution Drawings and Details of a Hospitality the previous knowledge and skills design. It will also teach students to materials, camera settings, physical
considering building codes and Space/ Hotel. The students will learned in a fully developed design analyze the elements of photographs, motion, and modeling techniques,
local regulations. All projects will be complete a typical guest room solution. choose best shots in photographing rendering, and post production.
submitted and evaluated face-to-face. in a hotel, interior design space building exteriors and interiors and
IND 415 - Interior Design Studio project. Emphasis is on the working Major Elective apply the different photography ARC 583 - Building Information
V drawings and construction details. techniques in photographing Modeling
That process terminates with the students’ projects.
Credit Hours: 3 ( 1 lecture + 4 completion of a very thorough series IND 581 - Advanced Furniture Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture +4 Studio)
Prerequisite: DES 210 or ARC 280
studio)Prerequisite: IND 340+ Senior of verbal presentations and physical ARC 540 - Sustainable Design
Status documentation of the construction Design and Detailing Credit Hours: 3 (2 Lecture + 2 This course explores Building
drawings. All projects will be Information Modeling (BIM)
This course focuses on the submitted and evaluated face-to-face. Credit Hours: 3 ( 2 lecture + 2 Studio) programs from Preliminary Design
experiential forces of designing studio)Prerequisite: IND 290 Prerequisite: ARC 420 or ARC 410 through Design Development, and
a large-scale hospitality project IND 470 - Graduation Project II This course helps students This course investigates the theory into Construction Documents. It
influenced by a specified theme understand the aesthetic and and practice of sustainability and the focuses on streamlining the design
either historical or contemporary. Credit Hours: 6 ( 2 lecture + 8 functional ergonomic aspects of process with a central 3D model.
studio)Prerequisite: IND 430 + IND interrelated design methods and
Design programming as well as 415 furniture as well as develop their processes for achieving sustainability
scheme will be conducted to develop research, analysis, criticism and at the urban scale of reference. It
the proposed design. Emphasis is This course provides the students evaluation capabilities in the field examines how sustainable theory

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