Umm Al-Qura University
Interior design is one of the engineering fields linking between the architectural engineering and the functional needs of interior building. Interior design means setting internal system for the structures taking into consideration the outside surroundings. This is meant for providing and meeting the diverse human requirements in terms of the long and short term living conditions and working life with all its fields combined. Interior design is not limited to internally arranging furniture; however it means a full plan with technical components based upon cross-cutting sciences from human and engineering to technical and technology.
The Interior Design Department Creating Program at Um Al-Qura University Designs and Arts College aims at graduating national cadres specialized in the interior design furniture designing fields. Thus, its academics diversified from studying aesthetic and functional theories. It also embraces contemporary trends in the interior designing field “Décor”, and in the furniture designing and manufacturing field; and all that is related to them in terms of the art of dealing with the aesthetic and functional designing for the residential, commercial, administrative, hotel and tourist buildings. Similarly, it studies the type of furniture appropriate for these previously-mentioned buildings, and all that is connected to the wall designs and color employing-as well as tackling the lighting, ventilation and air conditioning systems.
As such, this internal designing brings comfort to persons within their surroundings, and organizes their behavior within all types of buildings. This also provides them with a healthy atmosphere through adequate lighting, healthy ventilation, soothing colors, furniture designing suiting the dimensions of any given building and other technological aspects.
Still, the objectives of the Department is not only restricted to awarding the interior designing bachelor, but also to awarding diploma, Master and PhD degrees. The objectives also cover other social and environmental aspects. In other words, through the interior design Department, the Department can create a distinctive production unit preparing the designs of the interior design work and furniture for all Um Al Qura University colleges. Such unit also supervises and follows up the implementation process by the Department’s academic staff members.
Among the objectives of the Interior Design Department is establishing a design center serving the society and providing counseling and designs in the interior design and furniture field, and supervised by a select of the academic staff members. Further, the Department can present social and environmental services such as creating a Department concerned with free studies in the interior design and furniture specialties- and admitting university graduates from all specialties.
By the same token, the University, through the Interior Design Department, can participate in the environmental activities such as planning and beautifying public squares in the Kingdom’s cities. It can also take part in providing all the technical counseling in the interior design field for all the projects implemented in the Kingdom.
The Department targets the qualifying of specialized national cadres in the interior design and furniture design fields; therefore, its academics diversify from studying the aesthetic theories and studying the functional theories.
The Department aims at qualifying an interior designer capable of keeping abreast with the world of designing in terms of innovation and technology, and nurturing the visual communication culture in the society. It is also intended to encourage scientific research and continuing education and cope with all the developments in the field of specialty.
Interior design is one of the key specialties for the Saudi society for the labor market need to such a specialty in all the hotel, tourist, and administrative, commercial and residential buildings.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia badly needs such a specialty as it witnesses fast, ever-growing development in the construction field, especially the hotel, tourism and commercial buildings, and markets and big malls. Therefore, there is an ongoing need for renovating the interior designing and furniture of these buildings. Further, the Holy Mosques expansion increases the process of building and renovation, and the need for the interior design field.
The labor market constantly needs national specialized interior design graduates, able to meet the Kingdom’s need in terms of interior and furniture designers in the governmental and private sectors.
Specializing in the interior design field creates job opportunities for our graduates. And, it replaces the foreign labor force by the Saudi working hand in that field, in the governmental and private sectors.
The Program works on improving knowledge, cognitive skills, social skills, responsibility shouldering, communication and information technology skills, numerical skills, psychological and dynamic skills.
To help achieve these objectives, the students will gain these experiences through the following:
Such program is closely linked to the University’s vision due to the services it provides for society and meeting the labor market needs. Still, labor market increasingly demand the interior design specialty graduates as the Kingdom sees ever-growing boom in investments. And, such specialty is scarce in the labor market.
