Faculty of Design CEPT University

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Master of Design in Interior Design

Master of Design in Interior Design

Program descriptionThe Master of Design in Interior Design program is an interdisciplinary design-led and research informed programme examining the practical and theoretical discourses in the field of interior design. This course at the Faculty of Design is established to realize the need for design, research, innovation, and experimentation in the field of interior design.

It seeks to promote theoretical discourses, advance design and technical skills, and build professional networks in the field of interior design.The course through its pedagogical approach intends to build abilities in students to propose and conceptualise design solutions through integration of professional practice, material research, aesthetics, and changing technologies.

Exchange OpportunityThe program offers a unique opportunity to go out for a semester-long international exchange with one of the partner institutes of their choice as well as a two-week-long international workshop at a pre-decided partner institute. With the offering of this exchange semester, the M.Des program integrates a commitment to discussing major design concerns at both Indiaand global levels.

There is an opportunity to spend one semester of the course e at a partner Institution abroad where the students are exposed to other competencies and a new context. The criteria of selection is based on the academic performance in the first semester along with a personal interview during the exchange selection stage. The number of seats are declared in consultation with partner Universities near the middle of the first semester.

The partner institutions are:

• Istanbul Technical University, [ITU] Istanbul, Turkey

• University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany

• Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana [SUPSI] Lugano, Switzerland

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Program structureThe course is spread over four semesters, each emphasizing a specific aspect of the interior design practice. Studios in this program are offered by a range of academic and practicing design professionals, and thus have a balance of practice-oriented and theoretical explora-tions. During the first semester, a foundation studio is offered which emphasizes and revolves around the idea of a design process.

The subsequent semesters have independent studio units offered, enabling students to choose their own path and journey. The studios revolve around the key themes centred on the idea of culture-heritage, technology-production, and economy-profession. Apart from the studio units, there are other theory and technology-driven courses introducing students to key concepts in the field of design. Students also get to choose their own palette of elective and summer winter courses to complete their credit requirement. Students who will opt for ex-change will go on an exchange during the 2nd semester.

Curriculum/course description

Semester 1 Semester 2 (Exchange Opportunity)

Semester 3 Semester 4

Studio Unit(14 credits)

Studio Unit(14 credits)

Studio Unit(14 credits)

Studio Unit(14 credits)

Design Movements and Style(2 Credits)

Approaches to Design: The-ory and Culture(2 Credits)

Contemporary Interior Practices(2 Credits)

Electives and Summer Win-ter School

Interior Materials and Spec-ifications(2 Credits)

Interior Fabrication and manufacturing processes.(2 Credits)

Interior Lighting and Acous-tics(2 Credits)

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Master of Design (Interior Design)

Minimum Qualifications & Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture as Recognized By The Council Of Architecture

Bachelor’s Degree (Four Years Or More) in Interior Design, Interior Architecture Industrial Design, Furniture Design, or Product Design

Diploma in Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Interior Design, Interior Architecture, Product Design, or Textile Design (12 + 4), Provided That The Program Is Considered Equivalent To A Degree Program By The Equivalence Committee Of CEPT University

Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Design (Five Years Program)

Note: Minimum of 55% aggregate marks for General category candidates and 50% aggregate marks for reserved categories candidates.

Each applicant is required to submit the following documents along with the application form

• Degree Certificate (Scan of the original with self-attestation; provisional, in case final notreceived)

• Transcript of Marks / All Marksheets (Scans of originals) with CGPA or percentage*

• Work Certificates and a detailed CV (in the case of work experience; excluding theinternship done during the academic period)

• Two recommendations (To be filled up by the recommenders online)

• A portfolio that contains both Academic and Professional works (soft copy to besubmitted along with the application form and a print copy to be presented at the time ofthe interview. The portfolio must be A4 size – a maximum 10 pages and relevant to thecourse applied for.)

Note:The applicant receiving grades as GPA/CGPA need to send the document indicating the relationship of GPA/CGPA with percentage marks as per their university/institute along with all the mark sheets. This is a must for your application to be processed.

If the applicant is studying in the final semester, they will need to submit all the mark sheets until the penultimate semester.

All applications received will be scrutinized based on information provided/uploaded in the application forms. This scrutiny is to check if the applicant meets the eligibility criteria and to calculate the academic performance based on CGPA. Only those applicants who meet the eligibility criteria and pass the scrutiny will be considered for further stages of the admissions process.

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Evaluation processIn order to select the most eligible candidates for the Faculty of Design Post Graduate programs, the Evaluation is conducted in multiple stages by the Admission Committee set up by the Faculty of Design.

Each stage carries specific weightage:All applications will be screened at this stage for the following purposes:

Stages Criteria Weightage

Stage 1

Academic Performance in the UG Course 25

Work Experience 25

Portfolio: 50

Total 100

Stage 2

FD PG Design Aptitude Test: 60

Interview: 40

Total 100

Evaluation Stages

Stage 1All applications received are checked for completeness and satisfaction of eligibility criteria.

Academic performance (25%) and work experience (25%)Each applicant’s academic performance and work experience is looked at individually.

Academic performance is counted based on the percentage of marks achieved by the appli-cant. A candidate’s work experience will be assessed based on the details given in the applica-tion form. Internship done as part of the course work for credits or semester prerequisites will not be counted for total accumulated work experience.

Grade band Criteria

10 More than 4 years of Experience 8 Up to 4 Years of Experience 6 Up to 2 Years of Experience 0 Less than 2 years Experience or No experience

Portfolio (50%)A panel of faculty members will grade each portfolio based on the following criteria.

Portfolio guidelines

The portfolio is a synopsis of one’s creative work. As a visual essay, it tells the story of a per-son’s interests, skills, and development over time. It should include projects that best express one’s visual, spatial, and constructional abilities.

The portfolio must be structured as follows

• Three to five design projects expressing abilities to handle site, context, construction andabilities to deal with issues of sociology, anthropology, culture, etc.

• Work that demonstrates: manual and digital proficiency in terms of software, representa-tion tools, and mediums.

• Work that demonstrates: any workshop based outputs in the form of models, prototypes,material explorations, hands-on work, etc.

• Projects with professional engagement in terms of real-life site, client, context, program,etc.

Portfolio assessment criteria

100-80 Excellent level• Ability to state the design problem• Ability to develop a strong ideation process• Ability to resolve a design with relevant details• Ability to represent the project through a variety of mediums/tools/skills• Professional projects – the role of the applicant clearly defined

80-60 Good level• Most of the above at good levels• Some of the above criteria at excellent levels

60-40 Satisfactory level• Most of the above criteria at average levels• Some of the above criteria at good levels

40-00 Poor level• Most or all criteria unsatisfactory or poor

Stage 2Selected candidates from Stage 1 will be called for the on-campus exam and personal interview for the final decision on the admissions.

The merit list for the remaining seats will be prepared on the basis of the score obtained in Stage 2. Marks obtained in Stage I will not be carried forward in Stage 2. The applicant has to be physically present at the CEPT University campus for stage 2 of the admission procedure.

Faculty of Design - PG Design Aptitude Test (60%)All eligible candidates must appear for the FD PG Design Aptitude Test. This will be a test, which will be conducted prior to the personal interview. The aptitude test will be evaluated on:

a) ability to imagine and visualise appropriate design solutions.b) ability to describe, analyze and resolve a design problem.c) ability to represent & communicate using appropriate drawing methods.

Personal Interview (40%)The final stage of the evaluation process will be a personal interview. A panel of faculty members will conduct the interview. During the interview stage, each student shall carry the final portfolio. It will need to be presented in hard copy format and it will form an integral part of the interview process.

All documents submitted at the time of the form filling procedure will need to be verified at the time of the interview. All applicants are required to carry original documents (Mark sheets, transcripts, degree certificates, CGPA formula, Job experience certificates, portfolio, etc.) with them and present them for verification.

Important note

Examination Schedule and other details will be declared on the Admissions website and on the admit card issued to each eligible applicant.

Based on the marks received during various stages first merit list is prepared.

All candidates must appear in person at the designated venue (as declared on the admissions website and the admit card) for all exam stages as per their application in the respective programme. The schedule of the exam can not be changed or modified for any individual under any circumstances. There is no provision of online interviews or online exams.

You are requested to make travel arrangements based on the schedule declared by the CEPT university admissions website.

The consolidated common merit order of the applicants who have appeared for the FD PG Design Aptitude test and the Personal interview shall be displayed on CEPT website.

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FD PG Foundation Studio

MODULE - 02 Week 08 - 16

Monsoon 2018 PG 180748

Design CriteriaProblem StatementA public interaction space for exhibition of art utilizing the manufactured flexible, prefabricated systems that can be easily assembled & disassembled on site.

Exhibition gallery and Event space at C.G. Road Ahmadabad

ARTIST PUBLIC Art as Public Space

ADAPTABILITYFeatures re-positionable partitions.

Ease of adaptation per use. Open floor plans and typology free design.

MOVABILITY Relocatable or re-positionable elements &

FLAT PACK CONSTRUCTION

MODULARITYSame module or detail is repeated in the

design at different places.

ILLUMINATIONAs per the requirement of the program to fulfill this criterion clerestory windows are

provided

SlidingFoldingPartition

Digital GalleryExhibition Area(Multipurpose Hall)

Pivot Door

Jali Door

Jali Door

Sculpture

Jali Door Jali Door Jali Door

Semi - OpenDisplay Area

+ 0.400 M FFL

Display PartitionDisplay Wall

Display Wall

Display Wall

EntranceWaiting Lounge+ 0.200 M FFL

Terrace Lvl.+ 0.000 M FFL

Sculpture Sculpture

FLOOR PLAN

Raised Wooden Flooring

Existing Steel Stanchions

Aluminum Framing for Internal & External Walls

25 mm thk GRC Jali Door

Clerestory Window

Textured ACP Panels

Modular False Ceiling In Digital Gallery

Drop Paper Ceiling System in Exhibition Area

Existing Roofing

Existing Trusses

2 mm thk MS Sheet Folded in desired form fixed with the primary support at the slab & Track Lights

FLAT PACK CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM Using simple interlocking system to create

endless configurations. The structure is assembled by combining lightweight elements.

Ceiling system made of Drop Paper® strips in form. Ends are sticked on a formed aluminum stripe with holes. As for Drop Stripe®, small dips hang the paper on a Stretched up-per steel cable every 60 cm.

1. 30 X 30 X1.5 mm Aluminum Square Sections2. Aluminum Joints for 3-way, 4-way & 5-way junctions3. 1220 x 2440 mm Textured ACP Panels for Exterior4. Steel Base Plate

1. Wooden Flooring2. 20 mm thk Screed Board (1000 x 1000 mm)3. 1 mm thk Polyethelyne Sheet (500 x 500 mm)4. 18 mm thk Gypsum Board (1200 x 2400 mm)5. 30 x 30 x 1.5 mm thk Aluminum Square Section Framing

with snap fitting joints6. Height Adjustable Steel Pedestals7. Existing Steel Stanchions

1. 2 mm thk MS Sheet Folded in desired form fixed with the primary support at the slab

2. I-section Joints at 600 mm c/c to insure the MS Form to be parallel to each other

3. Track Lights fixed onto the truss

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High tension paper ceiling

Aluminum Joints for 3-way, 4-way & 5-way junctions

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Layout & Activities Views (Scale - 1:75)

Activity view showing different exhibition gallerias.

Activity view showing event space.

Exploded Axonometric View

1. Entrance Elevation2. Interior View Of the Gallery3. Exterior View showing

south and West Facade

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Sectional View showing Entrance & Gallery Spaces (Scale - 1:25)

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Career OpportunitiesGraduates from this program employ their design skills to work with national and international Interior design and architecture practices. The employers of our program range from small scale offices to multi national companies. Our graduates also work with academic institutions, research centres, and, as Ph. D. students and independent consultants.

Faculty Profile

Kireet Patel

He is an architect and designer who has extensively studied tensile structures and light-weight structures. He received a scholarship from Asian Cultural Council - New York, delivered international talks on Frei Otto’s work, and worked as Chief Designer for National Cultural Festive, New Delhi, 1986. He has subsequently worked on several architecture and interior projects by establishing his own practice. He has a diploma in architecture from CEPT.

Rishav Jain

He is an assistant professor - Program Chair (M.Des ID & IMIAD) at the Faculty of Design and a Research Expert with DICRC at CEPT. He is passionate about crafts in interior architecture and design research. He has curated and designed exhibitions, publications, and conducted various design workshops. His research explores the idea of craft beyond traditions and objects, dwelling into an exploration of the contemporary perspective on Crafts in India. He has done Masters in Interior architecture and design with a specialization in crafts and technology from CEPT University and a Bachelors in Interior Design from ACFA, Punjab.

Amal Shah

He has worked extensively on residential, healthcare, hospitality and retail projects with oranisations such as Architect Suryakant Bhavar and Rastogi Associates as an interior designer. He has also four years of freelance and consultant Interior design experience while working at Graffiti India. He has taught at Faculty of Design, CEPT primarily teaching studio, technology, and software-based course for fourteen years. His interests relate to technologies of the built environment. He graduated from School of Design, CEPT University in 2005.

Ahmed Abbas Momin

He has graduated from CEPT and has completed his post-graduation with a dual degree in Computational Design and Fabrication Technology from TU DELFT, Netherlands and METU, Turkey. He believes in performance-oriented design, backed by a design approach that takes aspects like climate, structure, and other intangible criteria of design into consideration. He is a visiting faculty at CEPT and teaches Generative Design.

Shailesh Manke

He is an interior designer trained from CEPT. He has his own design practice and has been working on various multidisciplinary projects from interior design to experiential design, and exhibitions to space graphics. He was associated with NID, Ahmedabad as a faculty and coordinator Furniture and Interior Design for more than 7 years. He is also a visiting faculty at CEPT and NID.

MokshThappar

He is an Industrial designer trained at NID and CEPT with more than 20 years of professional experience. He has designed more than 1000 SKUs for Lifestyle Products in solid wood for exports; developed products and processes for a fusion of traditional wisdom and technology; had the opportunity to design some successfully accepted apartment furniture ranges and modular cabinetry for wardrobes.

Chirag Doshi

He is a Designer based in Ahmedabad, with an interior design practice named Ego Designs, since 2007 which executes several interior projects of all types and scales. His projects have been featured in Ideal Home & Garden, Inside Outside and Design Matrix. He completed his bachelor’s from Sardar Patel University in 2004, and master’s in Visual Communication in Design from Monash University, Melbourne.

Aparajita Basu

She is the principal architect and founder of ‘[trans] architecture’ since 2002. The firm aims to work with a collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach to architectural design. Currently, she is an adjunct faculty member at Faculty of Design, CEPT. Her area of interest is design process-methods and architectural history-theory. She is a graduate of APIED, Vallabh Vidyanagar and holds a master’s degree from the University of Michigan.

Claire Reuter

She has been teaching at the interior design department at CEPT for 2 years and has completed her bachelor’s degree in Interior Architecture from Stuttgart and master’s in Interior Architecture and Crafts from CEPT. Before teaching at CEPT, Claire worked in London for over 2 years and at HCPIA Pvt. Ltd in Ahmedabad for 3 years. She earned on-site experience during the construction of charity homes in Bolivia, Senegal and Slovenia.

Dilip Patel

Dilip Patel, one of the three founder members at Aakruti, is an alumnus of the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad. As an architect, he has been involved in design for projects of varying scales starting from low cost housing in his formative years to private residences, institutions, industries, exhibitions and interior design for retail, corporate and residential sector, to name a few, over the years. His design methodology, much influenced by his traditional upbringing, has been to sensibly respond to the given parameters of site and program.

Devanshi Doshi

Devanshi Doshi graduated from APIED, Vallabh Vidyanagar, and has worked with multi-disciplinary offices, like HCP Design, Planning and Management, INI Designs and M/s PBB, since then. She has worked on a variety of projects ranging from large urban scale riverfronts, master plans of universities like Shiv Nadar, JIO etc, residential developments, commercial spaces, academic buildings and interiors of various other categories.

Student TestimonialsThe foundation program has been a challenging yet an exciting experience for me. The studio pushes one to take design decisions more rationally. Apart from the studio learning, “Cept University is a world in itself”, it exposes you to some very interesting people across the globe from the same fraternity, which influenced me to think and communicate about design more sacredly. I gained much more from the course and thereby myself, than I anticipated.

- Harshita Singal, M. Des (Interior)- 2019-2021

Master of Interior design program: Enriches an Individual with a process of Design Thinking. The program pedagogy gives the opportunity to ponder in diverse approaches of design.The studio encases varied intensive programs based on research, cultural, technical and gives a hands on experience to execute design details. The life at Cept, is an overall experience in itself.

- Mythili Jaideep M. Des (Interior)- 2018-2020

The pedagogy of MOD(ID) delves into Research & Hands-on learning experiences, provided through a wide range of Design studios, Workshops, Electives & SWS, which has helped me fine tune my analytical & design skills. CEPT also provided me with an experience of being a Teaching Associate along with my regular Curriculum. An Award of President’s Merit Scholarship of 50% fee waiver throughout 2 years of my Post graduation has helped me financially.

- Avantika Desai, M. Des (Interior)- 2018-2020