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Year 1 - Design Preparatory Classe

Develop your artistic and technical skills with a full 5-year course. Combining theoretical and practical learning, you will experiment with all the techniques and creative worlds of architecture. The aim? To make you a recognised architect in Interior Architecture, Scenography or Space Design.

  • Duration

    1 year, full-time, classroom-based

  • Hours of lessons/year

    +750 hours of teaching

  • Assessment

    Continuous assessment, evaluation of projects and knowledge
    Final assessment: end-of-year cross-disciplinary project
    Oral presentation of the artistic portfolio of the year's work

  • Prerequisite

    Baccalaureat or equivalent level 4 qualification

Year 1

Preparatory Year Design

What if transforming the future was as simple as the stroke of a pen?

Through a solid grounding in the basics and fundamentals, the preparatory year in Design is an opportunity to experiment with all aspects of applied art and to discover the diversity of the professions involved.

If you have a baccalaureate (all subjects), the Prépa Design is open to you with a view to joining our Professional Interior Architecture Cycle.

At ESMA we take
success seriously.

  • 95% Success rate (2023)

  • 90% Overall job entry rate at 6 months (2022)

  • 78% Rate of entry into the target occupation in 2 years (2021)

What does this preparatory year involve?

You have the passion
We teach technique.

Throughout the year, the key word is artistic practice: plastic expression, drawing, colour & form, visual arts, etc.

Everything is done to enable students to acquire a solid grounding in applied arts and drawing, through a complementary approach combining vocational and technical teaching.

By the end of this preparatory year, our students will have built up the perfect methodological, graphic, cultural and technical toolbox to enable them to become the professionals of tomorrow.

Discover the associated professions

Objectives

  • Acquire the technical and creative foundations through drawing practice
  • Refine your critical eye and analytical skills
  • Assimilate a methodology for work, research and creation specific to design
  • Acquire the skills needed to develop personal graphic and visual worlds as part of a design project.

Our teachings

Further studies

  • Interior architect Training Course at ESMA

    Professional Cycle
    Interior Architecture

    Year 2

    Continue
  • Graphic design Training course at ESMA

    Professional Cycle
    Multimedia Graphic Design

    Discover
  • Professional Cycle
    Illustration Concept Art

    Discover

The achievements
of students

Creative excellence is their leitmotiv


Any other questions?

Contact the campuses for any further information.

The curriculum

Interior Architecture

A 5-year course validated by a Level 7 RNCP qualification (equivalent to Bac+5)