The Master of Design in Interior Studies: Adaptive Reuse course at Rhode Island School of Design explores the potential for altering existing structures for new uses.

School: Rhode Island School of Design
Course: Master of Design in Interior Studies: Adaptive Reuse
Location: Rhode Island, USA
Course dates: July 2022 to June 2024
Application deadline: 10 January 2022

The 75-credit Master of Design (MDes) in Interior Studies: Adaptive Reuse program offers students a unique design education in the alteration of existing structures through interior interventions and the practice of adaptive reuse.

This course of study focuses specifically on designing interventions for existing structures at many scales – from single rooms to entire buildings as well as the larger urban fabric.

Applications to this course are now closed.

Top image: the RISD Museum Hotel visualisation by student Hyekung Won who graduated the course in 2017.

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