Materials and Interior Design (Portfolio Skills: Interior Design)

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Introduction
Part 1: Historical Context of Materials and Interior Design
	1. The Industrial Age: Design movements and their materials
	2. The evolution of materials
	3. The historical influence of the environmental agenda and its impact on materials
	4. The twenty-first century
Part II: Selection
	5. The brief and client
		Visual identity
		Cost, quality, and program
	6. The site
		Existing buildings
		Step by Step: Recording materials in an existing building
		Step by Step: Making a sensory reading of a site
		New buildings, proposed buildings, buildings under construction
		Temporary sites
		Context
	7. The concept
		Step by Step: Surface to form
		Step by Step: Combining materials
Part III: Application
	8. Material properties
		Functional properties
		Relative properties
		Sensory properties
		Sight
		Step by Step: Understanding color
		Touch
		Smell and taste
		Hearing
		Environmental properties
		Be informed
		Be responsible
		Be creative
		Subjective properties
		Personal readings
		Socially or politically constructed readings
		Cultural readings
		The maker’s reading
	9. Material detail
		Step by Step: Repeat components
		Step by Step: Recording joints and junctions
		Step by Step: Visiting an exemplar building
Part IV: Communicating from Concept to Completion
	10. Thinking and communicating through drawing
	11. Concept stage
		Thinking “through the material”
		Thinking “through the sketch”
		The sketchbook
		Freehand sketches and “drawings”
		Step by Step: Representing material atmospheres
		Step by Step: Representing existing materials
		Sketch models and conceptual models
		Materials vocabulary
		“Spirit of place” samples objects
		Precedent images
	12. Design development
		Drawings and models
		Computer-aided design (CAD) drawings
		Sample boards and material products
		Step by Step: Presenting material samples
	13. Detail and construction stage
		Detail and working drawings
		Drawing conventions
		Written representation and description
		Prototypes
		Post-construction and occupation
Part V: Material Classifications, Processes, and Sources
	14. Material classifi cations
		Polymers
		Metals
		Wood and other organic fi bers
		Ceramics and glass
		Stone and slate
		Animal products
		Composites
		New and emerging materials and processes
		Materials development
		Materials processing
	15. Material sources and resources
		Practice libraries (private)
		University/institutional libraries (semiprivate or public)
		Materials databases
		Trade fairs, exhibitions, manufacturers’ showrooms
Part VI: Case Studies
	Case study 1. Atmosphere: Beijing Noodle Bar, Design Spirits Co. Ltd
	Case study 2. Brand identity: Projects for Levi Strauss, Jump Studios
	Case study 3. Narratives: Collaborative interiors, Tracey Neuls
	Case study 4. Pattern and surface: Installations, Gunilla Klingberg
	Case study 5. Creating space: softwall + softblock modular system, molo design, ltd
	Case study 6. A material response to site: Concept for an installation, Alex Hoare
	Case study 7. Sustainable exhibition design: “Atmosphere”, Casson Mann
	Case study 8. Material detail and construction I: Pink Bar, Jakob + MacFarlane
	Case study 9. Material detail and construction II: Republic of Fritz Hansen, BDP and TinTab
Conclusion
Glossary
Further reading
Index
Picture credits
Acknowledgments