Addis College

Interior Design

Understanding the
space

June 2020
Good Design requires planning!
Steps in interior design process
1. Understanding the project
2. Understanding the space
3. Designing interior plan
4. Presenting the interior
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Steps in interior design process

1. Understanding the project

To understand a project the designer must know

• What is the change that needs to be made?

• How much are you willing to spend?
• How much time do you have to complete it?
• What is the goal of the project?
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This means creating a brief

• a brief means understanding client needs and acessing client char-
acterstics
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Client needs and acessing client characterstics

• Match possibilities for room design with the habits, likes, needs and
wants of the people who will use it.
• Complete a family inventory
• Lifestyles
• Activities, entertaining preferences, hobbies and study and work
• Preferred Atmosphere
• Future Considerations (what are your future plans?)
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2. Understanding your space

Whether it is architectural or interior design

you can not start designing with out un-
derstanding and analizing the space
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This is where site study/ analysis comes.

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What is site?

Any physical space, position or location of a building, town or

country

• Context,
• Content
• Character
• Canvas
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• Context, The circumstances that form the setting for

an event statement or idea, and interms of which wcan be
fully understood
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How to study / analyze site

• Qualitative
• Quantitative
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• Qualitative Vs Quantitative
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How to relate it to the design process

Design is a collaboration of intutitive and intellectual process

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Components of site analysis /understading your space

1. Dimension. Length, area , volume

2. Climate study
3. Demographic study
4. Historical evaluation study
5. Activity study
6. Color study
7. material study
8. Construction details study
9. Furniture, utilities and accessories study
10. Services study
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Components of site analysis

1. Dimensions (Drawings)

This can be done through as built drawing or from an existing construction

drawing

As built drawing is when you measure the space you are going to design
after it is built (because there might be variation in dimension during the
construction process)
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Components of site analysis

2. Climate study

This mostly is related to orientation and location of the room/space you

are gong to design.
# for example are the windows south facing, east or west?
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Components of site analysis

3. Demographic study
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Components of site analysis

4. Historical evaluation study

Specially important in interior archtitecture because it take into

account the historic background of the building and its con-
text when repurposing buildings.
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Components of site analysis

5. Activity study

This could be the different fuctions or activites that happen in the space ,
the circulation (for example is the room multi fuctional, is it open plan?
where do different activities , like dinning, sleeping, cooking .... occur?)
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Components of site analysis

6. Color study- the different colors used in the space

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Components of site analysis

7. material study, the materials found in your space.

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Components of site analysis

7. material study
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Components of site analysis

8. Construction details study

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Components of site analysis

9. Furniture, utilities and accessories study

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Components of site analysis

10. Services study

lighting and ventilation, electrical, sanitary as well as other ser-

vices.

Include daylight and natural ventilation not only artificial in your

study as it is important to the quality of the space.
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Conclusion of Analysis

Finally what it the weakness, strength and oppoertunities of the space you are
going to design

it is best if it can be illustrated in a diagram containing the plan .