Figuring Space 2 ︎ Code Analysis
IDES 625
Spring 2020 ︎
Interior Design
Spring 2020 ︎
Interior Design
Instructors
Heather Scott Peterson
Heather Scott Peterson

The design of constructed environments often begins with analytical gestures, such as diagramming, and works its way toward resolution in material reality and tectonic logics. These methodological positions can limit, or even censor, the material behaviors and intrinsic qualities of particular types of matter from participating—actively or generatively—in the condition of their own jurisdiction. This course will expose students to a broad sweep of material qualities: solid and liquid, rigid and ductile, additive and subtractive, animal, mineral and vegetal; with the intention of developing their sensibilities to the performativity and métier of materials and fabrication processes. The primary—and conventional—materials of interior detailing are often attributed to ceramics (tile, wet fixtures), metals (hardware, lighting), and textiles (curtains, upholstery). This course will explore existing and experimental techniques of fabrication and joinery in these three realms for the first half of the term. Alongside each of these material investigations, we will look at forms of representation related to notions audience (designer, fabricator, client, critic, etc.) and attempt to expand the potential for representational types to communicate methods of making, fabrication, assembly, and material constitution. The second half of the term will be devoted to self-directed projects which will seek to conjugate two material techniques from previous investigations into an architectural detail or spatial element.

Catalog Description
This course studies materials and methods of detailing, fabrication, documentation, and specification, and analyzes construction materials and building systems including structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, lighting, and acoustics. In conjunction with the building systems, this course examines buikding codes related to interior architecture through research, observation, and architectural documentation of non-structural elements of contemporary or modern design.
This course studies materials and methods of detailing, fabrication, documentation, and specification, and analyzes construction materials and building systems including structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, lighting, and acoustics. In conjunction with the building systems, this course examines buikding codes related to interior architecture through research, observation, and architectural documentation of non-structural elements of contemporary or modern design.