Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design
Bachelor of Interior Architecture
Bachelor of Interior Architecture
“… to me the material really is the starting point of the story.” Eva
Jiricna in Design in Mind by Lawson, B.
The design of interior spaces encompasses many factors from site
conditions, functional relationships, behavioural relationships,
structural form, symbolic, and sensory responses. The relationship of
materials to all these factors are essential in our design thinking, as
material influences and is influenced by all of these factors. As
designers we are charged with the responsibility to encourage and direct
change. We are change agents. Using the increasingly varied, and
exciting new developments in material technology, this masterclass will
examine how the junction of materials could form a strategy for form
development. The class will explore the various paradigms of joining and
attaching through a systematic and clear manner. Using this knowledge
further exploration will take the micro analysis of form and extrapolate
towards a generation of a macro form to embody spatial experiences for
the human body. These will then become part of an arsenal of design
strategies to be used in designing spaces for future projects. The
additional outcome will be a deeper understanding of the relationship of
material and form to space and how they are all part of a design
continuum. George Verghese
Over two days, students were encouraged to
Think
of the built environment as a series of materials connected together
forming part of a building system
Explore
an alternate approach to design that moves from the micro to the macro
view.
Explore the system of connections between materials and the paradigms
for joining them together.
Tasks
The examination of the joining paradigm will take the form of
exploratory studies through drawing and models of one paradigm/joint
system.
The
exploration will include a systematic alteration of scale, arrangement,
number, and form geometry.
Using the new material selected, explore the continuum of material/form
and space by examining one of the joint studies as the initiator of the
spatial outcome.
This will result in the micro spatial arrangements giving life to the
macro spatial arrangements.
