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Overview

This program is for you if you have a responsible and affective attitude towards your environment and if you have a rich imagination and good visual and communication skills. It is for you if you would like to present and realize your design ideas in a professional manner.

The Environmental Design Bachelor’s program equips students with the skills and knowledge that allow them to design practical and sophisticated spaces and objects, both when working individually and as a creative associate.

Our teaching methods put great emphasis on personal contact and consultation, and practical workshops are an important pillar of the program.

Programme structure

What can you study with us?

- exploration of the links between mankind and the environment
- international trends in the built environment
- ecological approach
- building prototypes in our in-house workshop led by experts, design project modelling
- environment- and health-conscious design and sustainable solutions
- complex design skills through practical and conceptual methods
- involvement in recent technologies and materials
- acquiring skills and knowledge in interior and object design during real-life projects at our internship places

• First year: Introduction to forms, spaces and materials through practical foundation courses, with plenty of experimentation and research opportunities that help you gain the skills needed to complete professional tasks.

• Second year: Practical courses with a special focus on interior space, furniture and architecture design, complemented by courses about related fields in each semester to equip students with comprehensive knowledge.

• Third year: One main complex design course along with co-related practical subjects that extend the design progress with technical and theoretical knowledge of art, design, and technical and up-to-date computing-specific subjects.

Specialization:

• Interior and Spatial Design

The specialization equips students with a general understanding of the fields of architecture, interior design, environmental design, object design and urban studies. Students can learn about multiple fields connected to the shaping of the environment, and how to find answers to human and environmental challenges.

The specialization focuses on the functional use and atmosphere of architectural spaces, including forms, materials, colors and lightning, with a special emphasis placed on creating environment- and health-conscious spaces. Along with design and art history, art theory and psychology, students also have technical subjects and gain a comprehensive understanding of architectural spaces and objects, and of how to present and communicate artworks and the values they stand for.

Main topics:

Interior Design; Creative and Complex Design; Form and Material Studies; Furniture Prototypes; Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and 3D Modeling; Free-hand Drawing and Painting; Ar Theory and History of Design; Space, Object and Environment Studies

Career opportunities

• interior designer/object designer
• design consultant for professionals
• independent artist

Our success stories:

OMDK 2021: Renátó Tajthy 1st prize / Kevin Kapui 3rd prize
• 4x4 Workshop 2021 Participation in China, organized by CAFA: Ingrid Manthertz, Dóra Szurdok 1st prize
• 4x4 Workshop Participation in China, organized by CAFA 2018: Alexandra Andróczi, Szandra Feth 2nd prize
HELLO WOOD Architectural Summer Camps participation 2016-2020: 5 projects realized all over Hungary
OMDK 2017: Emese Pancsa 1st prize and Rector’s special prize / Diana Alchabbi 2nd prize / Gábor Domonkos Varga Architecture special prize
CONSTRUMA 2015-17: Chamber of Hungarian Architects exhibition pavilion designed by METU students

Our alumni:

HEBA HASSAN – freelance interior designer in Egypt
JOUDY AYOUBI – freelance interior designer in Dubai
BAKOS ANNA – interior designer at Kroki Studio

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