Foundation Studio
Observation drawing, the grammar of space, paper models and the great buildings of Bihar — from the ruins of Vikramashila to the village courtyard — one studio afternoon a week.
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Discipline 02 — Interiors
Interior Design
Spaces, light, material and form — taught in a studio with its own materials library, and in the courtyards and colonial verandas of Bhagalpur.
The Discipline
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Reading rooms, writing spaces
Every building in the river country teaches something — the cool Thakurbari courtyards of Bihpur, the colonial verandas of Bhagalpur's court district, the narrow light-wells of the old silk merchants' houses. Our Interior Design discipline trains students to read these spaces the way a writer reads a page, and then to imagine new ones of their own.
Studio work moves from hand drawing and paper models to material studies, lighting design and complete spatial proposals. The studio maintains a materials library — fifty-two samples, from terracotta to Tussar wall panels — and every project ends with a jury review before visiting architects from Bhagalpur and Patna.
Graduates carry portfolios ready for architecture and design entrances — NATA, NID, CEED — and alumni of the programme now train or practice in Kolkata, Delhi and Bengaluru.
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Samples in the Materials Library
The Programmes
Three ways to study with us
Interiors at the Citadel runs from Class VI to Class XII — with a summer intensive open to every school in the district.
Senior Programme
Spatial planning, materials and lighting, technical drawing and a full residence proposal — presented each spring to a jury of practising architects.
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Space & Light Workshop
A three-week studio course — one week drawing the town, two weeks building the proposal — ending in a public exhibition of models and drawings.
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Curriculum
What you will learn
- Spatial planning & human scale — rooms, circulation and the way families really live
- Colour, material & texture — specified from the studio's 52-sample materials library
- Light & acoustics — natural-light studies in the studio's north bay
- Technical drawing & model-making — plans, sections and 1:25 scale models
- Vernacular & sustainable design — courtyard climate, local craft and low-energy building
The studio is led by our Head of Interiors with an annual visiting critic — recent critics have included alumni of the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.
From the Studio
Recent work from the studios
A glimpse of the studio's latest — see the full gallery on the Student Work page.
Join the Discipline
Every space tells a story — learn to write it
Places in the Senior Programme are limited to twelve students per year, and the summer workshop fills by April. Begin your application — or visit the studio and see the materials library first.