Discover the essential steps in designing an interior space with a specific client's design philosophy in mind. Learn from the practical example of a former student's project and how they used the work and style of Zaha Hadid as their focal inspiration.
Key Insights
- The design process begins with an introduction, discussing the client, their significance, and showcasing their design philosophy through their works. This sets the context and serves as the inspiration for the final project.
- A material board is integral to the design process, illustrating the various materials that will be used in the design. This board plays a crucial role in designing the furniture and layout, and guides which materials will be visible in the final renderings.
- The presentation of your design must consider practical elements such as unobstructed doors and turning radius, as well as creative elements like unique wall panels. The use of tools like PowerPoint or Canva can effectively convey these choices.
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Okay, welcome back. So, this is an example of a very similar project. The space is slightly different from what you're designing, but the concepts and the ideas are very, very similar.
So, you now have your instructions for the final project. So, let's look at what a project might look like if Zaha Hadid was one of your clients. This was a previous student.
You'll start off with the introduction. You will talk about the client and why they are significant. You may even show a variety of different samples of their images so we can see what their design philosophy is, how they started or became a designer, and essentially what makes them significant.
Okay, so this is going to be pulled from your previous assignment where you did the research and you start to understand project two, where you understand who your client is. So, this presentation will start off with some sort of introduction, revealing the design philosophy, revealing some of their famous works, and this is the inspiration for your final project. So, when you introduce this, talk about the design elements and the principles that make the most sense as far as this particular client and why this client relates to those specific elements or principles, right? So, sharing some of the work samples is important, sharing some of the work that the client has done and how they've been creative or innovative, and this should be used as an inspiration for you to design the final project that you've been assigned.
Now, you've also completed a material board, so you have an opportunity to show an image of the client's work as we asked for with the material board project, a sample of their work, and then a legend that calls out all the various materials that are going to go inside your artist lounge or gallery. So, please include this, and when you get to the rendering, the interior elevation rendering, and you know that your wall is made up of this kind of unique organic panel, we're going to be able to see that in the elevation itself. So, the material board will play a key, will be a key factor in how you design both the furniture and the layout, and again, just as a refresher, you will likely not show all of the materials that you've selected.
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You're only going to see the materials for the wall that you're rendering. So, if we say that we're going to be designing one elevation, you're going to see that elevation, what the materials or the furniture is. If you're doing the other elevation, and again, there's two options, so again, this project is not identical.
It is a little bit different, but it's the same type of idea, is that you choose one elevation to render, and that's the elevation you're going to see, and then you're also doing a furniture layout, black and white, of your lounge or your artist gallery, so we can see what type of furniture. And just a couple things to keep in mind, remember the 60-inch turning radius. If I come in through these doors, I've got 60 inches clear to be able to turn in and exit the facility, or I can, you know, come down to the other side and use this clear area as a 60-inch turning radius to be able to get in.
The idea is that you can get in and get out. The other thing is you'll see that in front of this door, this is all clear. We're not obstructing the door of anything, which is another ask for this project, so keep that in mind.
And then you're going to present your elevation. Now, instead of this particular elevation is a half-inch scale, and we haven't dived into drawing scale yet, and you will throughout your VDCI classes, but you want to include that digital scale that I've included, because that digital scale is going to allow you to keep the entire project to scale. But what do we see here? We see the creativity of what the student is doing with the door.
We see the creativity of the wall panel. Now, does this wall panel have to look 100% exactly like the image of the wall panel that you're using? No. It's a representation of what that panel will look like, so you can show your client.
So even if this panel is slightly rendered differently than what the actual panel looked like, it's okay. The point is we're showing the client who we are using this kind of creative panel, and you can see what it looks like in the rendered elevation. Now, here we're looking at this elevation, so you can see on the floor plan, we've got this kind of large, creative, modern sofa.
If we look at the elevation, we see that bench. Excuse me, not a sofa. We see that bench that's kind of an organic shape.
So again, just as a reminder, if you choose this elevation, you're standing here looking at this elevation, which means you would see the door on the right, and you would see the bench on the left. So here we look at the elevation, we see the door on the right, we see the bench on the left. So it's the exact same principle as far as what you're doing for your project.
You're going to choose an elevation that you think can most represent the project and what you're trying to do as a designer. And again, these materials are showing up on the material board, you can see here, and the bench was derived off of this kind of organic sofa. And I would say the one thing missing on this project is the student could have included that exact bench on here, so things aligned a bit better.
But I think this project slightly changed, and they did use this bench, but they ended up using a different color. So, you know, be as accurate as you can as far as which materials you're using, which color palette. And the idea is that we're using PowerPoint or Canva or whatever you use to do the rendering to show what material choices and what your design choices are for your final project.
And if you can pull this off, you've essentially applied the elements and principles, you've applied your research, you've applied your own creativity, and you're on your way to becoming an interior designer. Thank you.
