SFL 102 Exam 1

Interior Designer

The art and science of understanding people's behavior to create functional spaces within a building, you also need a license to be considered a designer in most states.

interior decorator

The furnishing or adorning of a space with fashionable or beautiful things

The difference between decorator and designer?

Interior Designers decorate, but decorators don't design.

What do interior designers do?

They create interior environments that support function, aesthetics, and cultures of those who inhabit, live, and thrive in interior spaces. Enhances the well-being of people who live, work, and play in those interiors as well as protects their health, safety and well-being.

How did Elsie de Wolfe bring professionalism to the field of interior design?

1. She established herself as a supervising designer of other people's houses rather than an artisan doing so.

2. she made interior design and decorating a suitable occupation for women

Residential design areas:

Kitchen/Bath

& Healthy Homes, Sustainability

Commercial/Contract:

Retail, Corporate/Office, Healthcare, Hospitality, Transportation, Institutional, Government

How are interior Designers qualified to practice?

4 years of education and 2 years of experience, or 4 years of experience 2 years of education

Who gives the professional exam and what is the exam name?

NCIDQ (national counsel for interior design qualification) gives the CIDQ.

Why is it important to have professional organizations such as IIDA and ASID? Which is the largest?

ASID is largest.

Important for statistics, facts about interior design, employment rate - advances the profession

Having professional organizations allows for them to send representatives out, do lobbying, etc.

Practice Act

You cannot practice interior design without this act. Legislation that requires individuals who practice interior design to be licensed in addition to regulating who can use the title - registered, or licensed, or licensed interior designer. More important and common than Title Act.

Title Act

You cannot call yourself an interior designer. Legislation that guarantees the right of an interior designer to use a certain title such as licensed interior designer, registered interior designer, or certified interior designer.

What Commercial Specialty designs educational and religious buildings? Also private and public funded? Examples: schools, colleges, religious facilities, libraries, museums, banks/credit unions and other financial institutions.

Institutional

What Commercial Specialty designs Child care facilities? Conference rooms? Executive suites? fitness centers? restrooms?

Office/Corporate

Commercial Specialty that designs Inns, restaurants, and entertainment places?

Hospitality

Commercial Specialty that designs assisted living, birthing centers, clinics, hospitals, medical and dental offices, medical laboratories, mental health facilities, rehabilitation, wellness centers.

Healthcare

Commercial Speciality that designs federal, state, city administrative buildings, justice centers, and courtrooms, etc.

Government

Commercial Specialty that designs malls and shopping centers, department stores, gift shops, food courts, spas and salons, pop-up stores.

Retail

Speciality that serves individual and family dwellings?

Residential

Model of Home:

Personal

Independence, Personalized, Belonging

Model of Home:

Temporal

Stability, Familiar, base of activity

Model of Home:

Social

Supportive atmosphere, social interaction, family & friends

Model of Home:

Physical

Important possessions, refuge, reflection of Ideals and values

Universal design

changing key concepts such as kitchens, bathrooms, utility rooms, front entry areas, to fit the needs of certain families

Aging in place

Physical obstacles often exist in the homes of older adults; too many stairs, narrow doorways, obstructive doorknob designs. (design for yourself as you age).

Transgenerational Design/ Multigenerational

children returning from college, little kids, older grandparents, and parents all in one house. Space planning is used here in most situations; analysis and design of interior spaces in response to occupancy needs.

What makes a product sustainable?

Sustainable design is an environmental responsibility that considers the protection of the health and welfare of global ecosystems for current and future generations. A method of practice or use of materials that has minimal negative long-term effect on the environment.

Green products; reusable, long lasting, [sustainable]

examples of solutions for special populations such as sight or hearing impaired.

Brail, different height water fountains, blinking lights on fire alarm instead of just sounds, door open buttons,

Define the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and be able to identify examples. When did it go into effect for all public buildings?

All buildings have to accommodate people with disabilities.

1992

What is the difference between Universal design and ADA?

Universal design is the design to include everyone

ADA: Certain types of people

What is the minimum ADA door width? Corridor width?

32 inches - door width

3 feet rule

Analysis of Space:

making your house work to you and your needs

Adjacency Matrix

A matrix which records the number of direct links between vertices; more of the listing out/ grid

Adjacency Diagram

Picture when you draw a bubble diagram and stick bubbles in house

Block Diagram

more square rather than bubbles

Prototypical Layout

measurements, how much space is needed in each room

Design Process:

1. Pre-Design

asking the client information, making sure you fit the job (accommodates your style), signing contract, etc.

Design Process

2. Programming

Identifying the client's preferences and resources, Inventory for potential reuse, development of matrices and relational bubble diagrams, presentation info for the client.

Design Process

3. Schematic Design (SD)

The matrix, diagrams and actual space amount needed

Design Process

4. Design Development (DD)

Refinement of designs and decisions the designer and client made in the Schematic Design phase. This is also a phase of critical analysis.

Design Process

5. Contract Documents (CD)

construction and installation of the design documents.

Design Process

6. Contract Administration (CA)

Design comes to life; all planning becomes worth while

Design Process

7. Move-in and Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE)

designer setting a move-in date for client.

What is a concept? Theme?

Concept is more abstract; allows more freedom in what you can do

Theme is concrete; for example extreme makeover rooms

Principal:

Scale

Do not compare to anything. Size of an object

Principal:

Proportion

Comparing something to something else and parts of an object that can be compared (a back of a chair is very long is very long in proportion compared to the bottom of the chair)

Principal:

Harmony

Variety and Unity

Principal:

Balance

Asymmetrical, symmetrical, Radical

Principal:

Rhythm

Think of Music, feel your being pulled a certain way

Principal:

Emphasis

Focal Point, stands out

Element:

Space

area above, below, in between and around an object in a picture plane

Element:

Shape

2D, silhouette

Element:

Form

The illusion of 3d: height, width, and depth. organic or geometric.

Element:

Mass

Visual Weight created by an object

Element:

Line

different feels associated with different lines (horizontal[restful], angular, vertical[formal], curved)

Element:

Texture

Can be influenced by proximity or view point

Element:

Pattern

Created by repetition of shape

Element:

Light

Most important element

Element:

Color

Phycological and physical perceptions

Color Scheme:

Analogous

By each other on the color Wheel

Color Scheme:

Triad

Primary colors

Color Scheme:

Complementary

Across from each other on color wheel. Orange & Blue, Green and Red

Color Scheme:

Split Complementary

Colors across from each other but 2 different outside colors compared to the main complementary colors

Color Scheme:

Monochromatic

Different shades of a certain color; risk is too much unity

Color Scheme:

Achromatic

Shades; black, white, grey scheme; they come from a hue

Hue

the dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light; what we know as the color names blue, green, and so forth

Tint

Adding white to a color

Tone

Adding Grey to a color

Shade

Adding black to a color

how to neutralize a color

add its complement

After image / Simultaneous Contrast

when the eye focuses on an intense color for as few as 30 seconds and then focuses on a neutral area, the complementary color appears in the same pattern as the afterimage ; Refers to the way in which two different colors affect each other. The theory is that one color can change how we perceive the tone and hue of another when the two are placed side by side

Advancing Color?

A warm color that appears to move toward an observer, giving an illusion of space. ex Red

receding colors

Colors that seem to recede into the background, making objects appear smaller and more distant from the camera: green, pale blue, and beige.

What are complementary colors?

colors opposite each other on the color wheel and used to create contrast; Green, Purple, Orange

When the manufacture and importation of type "A" incandescent lights was banned in the U.S.

January 2014

Qualities of LED lamps

Cheaper now, can do all kinds of lighting, last longer, gotten better over the years, diotes

Accent Lighting

Describes lighting effects designed to emphasize certain wall areas, merchandise displays, or architectural features in a retail setting.

General Lighting

lighting that provides a uniform level of light throughout a room; also called ambient lighting

task lighting

designed to illuminate work areas where strong, bright light simplifies detail work

Luminaries: wall washers

small recessed ceiling light, spread light over wall from ceiling to floor

Luminaires

(Or Lighting Fixtures)

is the device which supports the source or sources of electric light and redirects or helps to control the light rays from the source. Control of the rays is necessary to secure even distribution, to avoid glare, to cut-off direct rays to the eyes, and eliminates disturbing reflection of the rays from polished surfaces.

Ex Lamp

Luminaries: cove lighting

A long shell near the ceiling which directs the light rays upward.

Luminaries: Wall Grazer

Highlights the texture of a wall

Luminaries: Sconce lighting

bracket mounted on the wall that is used to hold a candle or source of light.

Luminaries: track lighting

Display lighting that consists of moveable units mounted on vertical or horizontal tracks

Luminaries: low voltage cable

Lighting connected by a cable

pendant lamp

By Louis Polsen; very expansive lamp lighting

Luminaries: Torchiere lamps

Floor Lamps

lamp

light source/light bulb

lumen

light

foot candle

the amount of illumination produced by a source of one candle at a distance of one foot; where the light ends up shining

Light Temp:

2900 Kelvin

Warmer

Light Temp:

3500K

Cooler

CRI (Color Rendering Index)

A measure of the ability of light of a particular kind to permit accurate evaluation of the color of objects.

What type of light casts unflattering shadows?

Eye level lights

Bauhaus Style

The most influential current in

Modernist architecture and Modern design in the 20th

century. One of the main objectives of the Bauhaus

was to unify art, craft and technology in which the

machine was considered a positive element. The

Bauhaus belief is that "Form Follows Function".

International Style

A style of 20th-century architecture associated with Le Corbusier, whose elegance of design came to influence the look of modern office buildings and skyscrapers.

Arts and Crafts Style

Built with natural materials, built-in furniture, fireplaces, porches, low pitched roofs, exposed beams, open floor plan.

Nature, earth tones, handmade

De Stijl (The Style)

Meaning "the style" in Dutch, a term describing a group of artists and architects whose style is characterized by the use of primary colors, rectangular shapes, and asymmetrical compositions. The movement was a direct response to the chaotic and destructive events of World War I, and its members believed that developing a new artistic style represented a means of rebuilding and creating a harmonic order.

Baroque

overly decorated; more is more