Do you have a flair for making and exploring materials? Are you interested in
creating innovative contemporary spaces? Do you enjoy making models,
architectural designs, interior design or VR (Virtual Reality)? If so, this is
the course for you. This specialist course will give students a broad and creative education in
the world of conceptual architecture.
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UAL Architecture Diploma Level 3
Level 3 - Advanced
UAL Architecture Diploma Level 3
The course will focus on innovative and highly conceptual structures –
architecture, spatial / interior design and environments. You will be designing
the world of the future and worlds for our entertainment/imagination… such as
awe-inspiring towers, global bridges, future cities, underground habitation
hives, transport structures for a new civilisation. Designs and outcomes will be
for building proposals – but equally for games design, film/TV/Theatre
production, futuristic visions and solutions to the habitation of our changing
planet. Students will be working with highly qualified staff who are experts in their
field, to produce innovative virtual structures as well as innovative model
making skills to transform ideas into physical forms. The course offers many
opportunities for working with creative industries for learners to work on live
projects set by architects and designers, to develop their ideas
professionally. Awarded by UAL
Awarding Body you will achieve a UAL Level 3 Diploma and Extended Diploma in
Creative Practice: Art, Design and Communication on completion of this
course.
Location
Entry
Fees
When
Matthew Boulton College
01-09-2025
Free*
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* Courses are free for 16-18s. Students aged 19 or over could be charged fees and is subject to a fee assessment. Learners on benefits in the majority of cases courses are also free. Fee assessments are completed at enrolment.
Course Length: 35 Weeks
Candidates will need a minimum of four GCSE grade 4 or above to include English and maths.
Applicants will have the opportunity to discuss the course content and requirements during their interview and provide a portfolio of work demonstrating their creative ability (this includes sketchbooks and coursework from school). Studying a creative subject at GCSE level is not a requirement.
The course is 100% course work and you will produce work in 2D and 3D and time based media, research projects, sketchbooks, design sheets, evidence folders and photographs recording processes.
After completing your extended diploma you can progress to Higher Education or employment where you could work as an architect, interior designer, set designer for theatre, jewellery designer or furniture designer.
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Year 1
- Unit 1 The Creative process
- Unit 2 Developing Creative Practice
- Unit 3 Responding to a set brief
Year 2
- Unit 4 Researching a Specialist Industry Practice
- Unit 5 Specialist technical Skills Development
- Unit 6 Specialist Creative Outcome