ABH432 Interior Design: Integration
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| Unit code: | ABH432 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | ABH431 |
| Credit points: | 24 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,384 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $9,408 |
| International unit fee | $10,872 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2026, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | ABH432 |
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| Credit points: | 24 |
| Pre-requisite: | ABH431 |
Overview
This fourth-year capstone unit continues your studies from Interior design: Inclusion. Following on from your schematic proposal submission in ABH431 you will now enter the design development and construction phases of your project journey. In these phases you will resolve spatial planning, the three-dimensional program, services integration, code compliance, budget, and materials specifications among other commercial project considerations to an advanced level. You will continue to integrate your conceptual and theoretical progress in your project development with clear and advanced communication of your guiding principles provided through key submissions. Your methods of communication will operate at an advanced level and target a variety of stakeholders and project phases.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply technical understanding of materials, buildability, code compliance, services integration and product specification to a mastered level.
- Refine and resolve your design propositions informed by socially-responsive and care-centered design methodologies.
- Select and apply advanced communication strategies to convey project information targeted at the design development and construction phases of a project with a focus on persuasion and professional recommendations.
- Engage in an advanced design process that is industry informed, documented, systematic, exploratory and iterative.
- Demonstrate professional engagement through meeting project timeframes and interim checkpoints to ensure a mastered level of design independence is evident.
Content
The major topics covered in this unit will include:
- The psycho-social theory that informs our understanding of the various ways in which people interact with each other in the process of designing and inhabiting healthy public environments
- The technological and technical aspects associated with designing socially, culturally, and environmentally healthy public built environment
- The broader context of socially, culturally, and environmentally healthy design practice
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in learning through:
- Lectures, small group consultations and guest talks from industry professionals
- Externalisation and explicit imagining, representing and testing ideas and proposals for projects with a focus on process.
- Small group discussions and critiques where you can learn from each other
- Critically evaluating prior and current knowledge, conceptions and expectations
Learning approaches will include but not be restricted to project-based learning, individual self-directed learning, team-based learning, reflective practice and advanced communication methods
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback will be provided by:
- Verbal formative feedback on in-class activities and assessment work-in-progress from peers, academic staff and industry guests
- Summative review of submitted assessments in the form of verbal and written feedback from academic staff and industry guests including criteria referenced assessment rubrics
Assessment
Overview
Assessment for this unit is based on an authentic, commercial, public design project, the first stages of which were completed in ABH431. You will develop and refine your project further to address the design development and construction documentation phases. Assessment will be both formative and summative and will be undertaken at identified stages.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Design Project (Applied)
Fully resolved design development proposition consisting of text, graphic illustrations, orthographic projections, models (3-D and physical), renders and/or other medium which best communicates your proposal and demonstrates the likely achievement of your stated aims and objectives. This submission should contain your fully developed design resolutions, including some level of detailing which demonstrates that your proposal is able to be implemented through building; manufacturing; installation; or some other form of production. The submission will involve both an oral and graphic presentation.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Construction documentation
You will produce a set of construction documents that outline the buildability requirements for your project. Consideration of services integration, code compliance and detailing must be demonstrated through construction drawings, schedules and specifications.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff are required to complete the FoE General Health and Safety Induction course for access to campus buildings and facilities. This must be completed online.
In this unit you will undertake lectures and/or classes in the lecture theatres and design studios. As such, there are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues associated with these components of the unit.
Depending on the nature of the project, students in this unit may be required to undertake lecturer-led and/or self-directed site visits to building sites and/or partake in a field trip. These may be supervised and/or self-guided in nature. A risk assessment for such trips has been identified as of a low impact risk. You will be required to obey all safety guidelines and directions while attending such visits or trips. You should advise staff if you consider you will be at risk.
This unit may involve visits to construction sites for which you are required to attend a construction safety induction session and obtain a safety induction card. This safety induction session introduces students to the relevant workplace health and safety requirements of Queensland construction sites. A safety induction course is provided by the school in the first week of the first semester. This induction is mandatory.
You may be required to undertake practical sessions in the workshop under the supervision of the technical staff. The Faculty's occupational health and safety policies and procedures will apply to these sessions and you will be required to undergo a health and safety induction in order to be issued with a safety induction card. Students who do not have a safety induction card will be denied access to the workshops.
Costs
Costs and equipment for this unit relate to the normal costs incurred and equipment required in the generation and presentation of a student design project.
Resources
There are no prescribed texts for this unit due to its project-based approach and the self-directed approach to theoretical application. A range of resource materials appropriate for the specific project including a list of readings and texts may be recommended at appropriate stages during the semester. You will be encouraged to reference materials from a range of sources from which you can draw conceptual, procedural, and substantive content to inform your design development.
Risk Assessment Statement
All students and staff are required to complete the FoE General Health and Safety Induction course for access to campus buildings and facilities. This must be completed online.
In this unit you will undertake lectures and/or classes in the lecture theatres and design studios. As such, there are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues associated with these components of the unit.
Depending on the nature of the project, students in this unit may be required to undertake lecturer-led and/or self-directed site visits to building sites and/or partake in a field trip. These may be supervised and/or self-guided in nature. A risk assessment for such trips has been identified as of a low impact risk. You will be required to obey all safety guidelines and directions while attending such visits or trips. You should advise staff if you consider you will be at risk.
This unit may involve visits to construction sites for which you are required to attend a construction safety induction session and obtain a safety induction card. This safety induction session introduces students to the relevant workplace health and safety requirements of Queensland construction sites. A safety induction course is provided by the school in the first week of the first semester. This induction is mandatory.
You may be required to undertake practical sessions in the workshop under the supervision of the technical staff. The Faculty's occupational health and safety policies and procedures will apply to these sessions and you will be required to undergo a health and safety induction in order to be issued with a safety induction card. Students who do not have a safety induction card will be denied access to the workshops
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.AB01 Bachelor of Built Environment (Honours)
- Apply theoretical, practical and cultural knowledge and skills across a range of disciplines and specialist knowledge and skills in one built environment area.
Relates to: Design Project (Applied), Construction documentation - Design and critically evaluate sustainable and creative solutions to social, economic, technological and environmental challenges.
Relates to: Design Project (Applied), Construction documentation - Communicate knowledge, ideas and creative solutions in diverse modes, for a range of contexts and diverse audiences.
Relates to: Design Project (Applied), Construction documentation - Plan, develop and complete research and other projects.
Relates to: Design Project (Applied), Construction documentation - Strategically collaborate with diverse stakeholders and communities, including First Nations peoples.
Relates to: Design Project (Applied), Construction documentation