Technology for Interior Design
From MaterialProject.org, the free architectural material catalog
The Technology for Interior Design Seminar provides graduate students at Marymount University a sophisticated understanding of structural and constructional issues and their impact upon the design and planning of interior environments. This seminar studies the influence your choices of materials has upon the methods of construction and detailing and requires students to identify and resolve construction related issues.
Students will sketch and analyze the works of prominent designers, explore innovative methods of integrating digital software in the design/discovery process, conduct precedent and market research all in an effort to better understand materials, details, and their relationship to design.
Course Objectives
This studio is design to help each student develop an understanding of material, methods of construction and their integration into the student's design studio and career. More specifically, this course is a chance for each student to further investigate the following questions:
- What makes detailing a design decision and how does the details inform or react to a project’s primary design ideas?
- What is the relationship between material and the detail?
- What is the relationship between detail and design concept?
- What information do we look for in a precedent study and how can that analysis apply to a unique design process?
- How can you use digital modeling software to better understand materials and methods of construction?
- There are many different methods of analysis including reading/writing, drawing, observation, and making. What are the differences between these methods of analysis and when is each appropriate in the design process?
Student Contributions
Student contributions from this studio include:
- Spring 2010 semester - MaterialWiki project contributions
Click here for a full list of student contributions.
