Master’s in Interior Design | Faculty of Design | CEPT University
ID 4015
The Big Rethink:
Interior Materiality Unit Tutors: Prof. Kireet Patel, Rishav Jain & Aparajita Basu Unit Assistants: Chandni Chhabra, Teja Payapalle
Anishrithi.R.M | PID21039
ID 4015
The Big Rethink:
Interior Materiality
Anishrithi.R.M | PID21039
The Big Rethink is a series of postgraduate interior design studios focussing on developing a multitude of notions, approaches, positions and arguments with reference to interior design practices.
Master’s in Interior Design | Faculty of Design | CEPT University
ID 4015
The Big Rethink:
Interior Materiality Unit Tutors: Prof. Kireet Patel, Rishav Jain & Aparajita Basu Unit Assistants: Chandni Chhabra, Teja Payapalle
Anishrithi.R.M | PID21039
Contents 0. About Studio A. Interior Materiality B. Studio Outline C. Structure of the Studio 1. Foundation Program A. Objectory B. Factory 3. Generating and Developing the Argument 4. Role 01 I Representing an ‘Era’ 5. Role 02 I Representing ‘Standardization’ 6. Role 03 I Representing a ‘Collaborative Identity’
‘’If you think of Brick, you say to Brick, ‘What do you want, Brick?’ And Brick says to you, ‘I like an Arch.’ And if you say to Brick, ‘Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lintel over you. What do you think of that, Brick?’ Brick says, ‘I like an Arch.’ And it’s important, you see, that you honor the material that you use. You can only do it if you honor the brick and glorify the brick instead of shortchanging it.’’ -Louis Kahn
‘Interior Materiality’ A concept that concerns the critical aspects responding to the governance and engagement of a spatial system - Loschke, Sandra Karina. “Materiality and Architecture.”
Why Interior Materiality? We design spaces and spatial experiences through orthographic drawing that only provides information about the form, and relegates ‘material’ to the empty spaces between the lines. The process of identifying and detailing form is embedded in our practices, and we fail to examine material beyond its aesthetic or technological capacities and leave it to adapt to the form. - Material Matters: Architecture and Material Practice
Studio Concern The current interior design field/practice has systematically emerged from its allied and specialized disciplines. This poses a challenge for its design professionals to be equally emerged or developed or qualified in order to develop a specific design approach/language/identity. It is important for the professional to possess the ability to develop a position that is professionally recognizable.
Learning Outcomes After completing the Studio,the student will be able to : - Ability to develop a systematic argument/position/approach on the interdependence between materiality and practice - Ability to translate/represent the design argument/position/ approach through 3-Dimensional and material based outcomes - Ability to develop a design position for varied complexity of interior projects - Ability to organise and evaluate the programmatic and pragmatic potential of derived design position. - Ability to build a design vocabulary and test it through the selected context (site/program)
Studio Outline The Big Rethink is a series of postgraduate interior design studios focused on developing a multitude of notions, approaches, positions and arguments within the interior design field. This semester, the third one in the series, the studio challenges the concept of Interior Materiality in interior design. It offers an opportunity to develop a design position in different contexts by questioning preconceived notions of interior design. It emphasizes the relationship between Interior materiality and its expression, identity and design outcomes. The first four weeks are a part of the common FD PG Foundation, where students from all streams work together to develop skills and abilities in drawing and making. The latter part of the studio is divided into two modules: the first builds an argument on interior materiality and the second module explores three key roles of an interior designer with each student working on three smaller projects. Role one focuses on practices that work within the context of an ‘era’, role two focuses on practices that are sited within the ‘standardisation’ of the typical floor plan and role three challenges the boundaries between interior design and architecture. The studio focuses on representing experiential and ephemeral qualities, planning and organising strategies, detailing and construction techniques, through the lens of interior materiality.
“A concept or the applied use of various materials or substances in the form of space making, actualized through the body and senses interacting with the physical environment. A language to articulate vision or make ideas tangible.”
interior materiality
what is the role of an interior designer ?
interior materiality
focus
1 3 ‘era’ ‘standardisation’ ‘collaborative’
roles
Leonardo Da Vinci
premise
1 3 experiential and ephemeral qualities planning and organising strategies detailing and construction techniques
projects
Structure of the Studio
Objectory and Factory
Generating an Argument
Foundation Program, 4 weeks
Module 1, 1 Week
Week 01-04
Week 05
Role 01
Week 06-07 Project Type: Adaptive reuse of an existing historical site Understanding Formal qualities Output type: Photomontage and drawings Focus on experiential and ephemeral qualities
Role 02
Role 03
Module 2, 10 Weeks
Week 08-12
Week 13-15
Project Type: Standardized typical office floor plan
Project Type: Independent design project with no predetermined site context
Output type: Plans, sections, Isometric Drawings
Output type: Experiential views showing construction techniques.
Focus on organizing and planning
Focus on constructing an experience, making and detailing.
Week 01 - 04
Common Foundation weeks Objectory: DeMONSTRATE PRECISION BY WAY OF OBSERVING AND REPRESNTING . The study of tolerance is by way of identifying the materials and assembly of parts , and accuracy by way of exploded axonometric / isometric drawings Factory: Explore the ideas of the frame , detail , assembly , tectonics , material as a central core of making . Process and transform materials with precision , accuracy and tolerence for assembly.
Objectory + Factory OBJECTORY: The idea is to identify any object of daily use and study in detail. Objectory is all about how an object that we use undergoes a series of development stages in its making . The process of development of drawings are done through orthographic drawings , detailsand exploded isometric in the later stage each dis assembled part of the kit of parts in understood with its functional use.
Week 05 - 06
Module 01:
Generating an Argument Stage 01: Developing an argument A. Select relevant examples from recent practices of Interior Design B. List down design decisions and analyse the relationship between interior materiality and practice. Stage 02: Stating an argument Develop an argument in reference to the interrelationship of interior materiality and practice based on the list of design decisions and the selected examples.
EX
01
Generating an Arguement
Developing an Arguement ARGUEMENT:
“Material Technique for linear Elements create a sense of locomotion” 1. Selecting the projects
Exercise Brief & Intent: The excercise began with the understanding of selected projects seen side by side in a matrix with their methods of interior techniques i.e to modify to alter .These methods can be identified in interior elements as aim,tool,medium in a space.These projects were selected based on the “Role of interior Designer” based on a) Historical/era centered project. b) Texile Mill c) disintegarted Site.The arguement that was explored across 3 Roles and was the basis of designing the interior space with the understanding techniques and design decisions
2.What does Materiality inform and Contribute to ?
Week 06 - 07
Module 02: Role 01
Experiencing Materiality The Experience of space is understood through the elements, compositions and moments one may encounter in the space.This is seen through a visual study of how light, texture, color, material and finishes play out in space. Historical practices through a project representing an ‘Era’ Output: Photomontage / Collage
EX
01 Developing an Arguement
Exercise Brief & Intent: Role one emphasises the experiential and ephemeral qualities of the space. The experience of the interior space, which is not only achieved through the making of some elements but also through how it is composed with other elements, how light impacts the perception of the user, and how the finishes, colours, textures add to its ambience. The exercise is to develop experience of the argument in the site through photomontages for the selected images. To Select any one site from the three given sites and represent the expression of your argument in terms of the exhibition of 15 dream machines by Leonardo da Vinci.
Learning Outcomes: 1.Ability to explore and enhance the interior materiality with respect to the chosen historic ‘era’ 2.Ability to develop experiential and ephemeral qualities of interior space. 3.Ability to represent their ideas as visual rhetoric by using photographs / mixed media and overlaying their design over it. 4.Ability to work with the constraints of the site and work towards developing an interior language.
ARGUEMENT:
“Material Technique for linear Elements create a sense of locomotion”
ARGUEMENT
“Material Technique for linear Elements create a sense of locomotion” Aim: To create a sense of Locomotion through Interior elements in a space. Tool: Through the use of Linear Elements by repetition , changing heights and segrating each space to create a different user experience Medium: Material Techniques such by repetition of similar material varying in sizes , creating a composition by interlocking the elements.
Chandigarh Capital Complex
Criteria for Selection of Material
Sense of movement
I Locomotion through linearity
Criteria for use of ‘Material’
Sense of wayfinding
What ‘Material’ has been used?
Wood
Wire Mesh
Steel sections
glass
Where and How ‘Material’ has been used?
Materials are used to create transparency screen by guiding
Inference: Linear Elements by repetition creates transparency in a space as well as helps in guiding the user .
Montage Image 2 - Shows a sense of movement through patterns
Montage Image 2 - Sense of Wayfinding through Linear Elements
Montage Image 2 - Linear Elements creating focus
Shows the Sense of Locomotion in Transparency
FLOOR PLAN
Transparency is created in a space by arranging the Wire mesh divider in verticlal and horizontal Planes SECTION - BB
Week 08 - 12
Module 02: Role 02
Spatialising Materiality Organization and space planning involve the systematic laying out of space-making elements. Considering that some arguments and design intents involve an array of elements, while the rest require volumetric explorations - this visual composition leads to more clarity in the design. Current modern practices through a project representing a ‘Standardisation’ Output: Plan, Section, Isometric Drawings
EX
01
Spatialising Materiality
Exercise Brief & Intent: Site is also divisible, organizational and accommodates a certain capacity. Every site has qualities that are usable(utilized towards a function), translational and transformable which evolve with the help of interior design decisions. Reflect upon these factors and identify ‘How is the site’, ‘What can the site be seen as’ and ‘How can you transform the site through interior materiality’ The outcome expresses the ephemeral qualities imposed by the argument on the space.
Learning Outcomes: Arrangement of series of elements through patterns in each space can create a different experience
Criteria for Selection of Material
ARGUEMENT “Material Technique for linear Elements create a sense of locomotion” ThisArgument states that through material technique linear elements can create asense of locomotion Locomotion as term suggests movement from one place to another that indeed guides the path
Zoning
Sense of Focus and wayfinding Criteria for use of ‘Material’
Addition of single modules to form a mass Module
Organization
Partitions are used to navigate through the space
Addition of single modules to form a mass Module
Where ‘Material’ has been used?
Site as a metaphor
wooden connection Floor | Ceiling | Roof | Wall | Beam | Furniture | Columns
How ‘Material’ has been used?
What ‘Material’ has been used?
wooden connection Wood
PVB Glass
Cement
View 01
SECTION AA
View 02
SECTION BB
Connection of each Single Wooden Element Element 01
Exploded detail of Element 01
Connection of Two Wooden elements
Exploded Isometric View showing the interior Elements designed in a space
The Concept of Materiality through use of Singular Material element and creating Interior Partitions , Seatings and Displays
Showing Wooden Lattices creating an Experience
Wooden Fins as a Ceiling Element Wooden Lattices as Interior Walls Wooden Lattices as a Beam and Column giving it a structural stability
View of Da Vinci’s Exibits on the First floor
Glass Topping to embrace the Wooden Lattices
Wooden Frame Element for The Wall Displays Wooden Frame Element as a partition Wall Wooden Lattices as Interior Furniture
Inference: “Arrangement of series of elements through patterns in each space can create a different experience” Da Vinci’s Exibits on the First floor
Week 13 - 15
Module 02: Role 03
Constructing Materiality Details of elements, junctions and construction assemblies all inform the production of spatial experience as well as organization. Hence,it is necessary that a language of detailing be designed and worked on. Collaborative practices through a project representing an ‘Identity’ Output: Experiential Views, Material specification and construction Details
EX
01
Constructing Materiality
Exercise Brief & Intent: The assembly Interior elements created by interlocking is broken down to create an identity to a space. Architect Kengu Kuma’s joinery has been experiemented and adopted in this design.Atlernate rearrangement of components creates an element with form that act as a ceiling , column , Partition etc. Continuity creates a journey with a seamless intresting experience when user travels from one space to another.
Learning Outcomes: The use of singular material can also bring out the experience and essence of the space
“Collaborative Identity”
Criteria for selection of ‘Material’
The “ Space Matrix ” The assembly Interior elements created by interlocking is broken down to create an identity to a space.
Criteria for selection of ‘Material’ Criteria for selection of ‘Material’
Architect Kengu Kuma’s joinery has been experiemented and adopted in this design.Atlernate rearrangement of components creates an element with form that act as a ceiling , column , Partition etc.
Criteria for selection of ‘Material’
Continuity creates a journey with a seamless intresting experience when user travels from one space to another.
Criteria for use ofMaterial ‘Material’ Singluar creates a sense of cohesiveness
Use of Singular Elements creates a sense of Cohesiveness in a space which shows the flexibility in usage.
Singluar Material creates a sense of cohesiveness
Singluar Material creates a sense of cohesiveness Criteria for use of ‘Material’ Singluar Material creates a sense of cohesiveness
Criteria for use of ‘Material’ Criteria for use of ‘Material’
How ‘Material’ has been used? CLT Component when interlocked repeatedly can create a surface
What ‘Material’ haswhen been used?repeatedly can create a surface CLT Component interlocked What ‘Material’ has when beeninterlocked used? repeatedly can create a surface CLT Component CLT Component when interlocked repeatedly can create a surface
What ‘Material’ has been used? What ‘Material’ has been used? Material Technique : Inter-Locking joineries
Cross Laminated Wood
Wood
Glass
Cross‘Material’ Laminated Wood Wood Where has been used?
Glass
Where has been used? Cross‘Material’ Laminated Wood Wood
Glass Glass
Cross Laminated Wood
Wood
Where‘Material’ ‘Material’has hasbeen beenused? used? Where
Flooring I Wall I Staircase I Railing I Ceiling
A single Interior Component in varying sizes is arranged in different sizes which shows the Versality of a material . Glass Topping is provided to highlight the joinery of an interior element.
Flooring I Wall I Staircase I Railing I Ceiling How ‘Material’ has been used?
How ‘Material’ has been used?
Flooring I Staircase I Railing I Ceiling FlooringI Wall I Wall I Staircase I Railing I Ceiling
How How‘Material’ ‘Material’has hasbeen beenused? used?
Floor Connection Detail
Exploded Component Detail
A singular Material Module
Stair and Railing Detail Shows Two Interior Elements combined with another Material i.e Glass to make a whole Component.
A singular Material makes up a component to form a furniture itself which remains Cohesiveness.
Wood - Glass detail
Section Shows the connection of Different Modules from a Singular Material
ROLE 03| View 02
The Wooden Lattices create a series of voids and carved out spaces in the exhbition , visitors can fully experience the structure as it moves through space. Double height volume is further broken down into different heights providing views of the Da Vinci’s Exibits from all perspective and from Different levels. A single module is repeated numerous times to form the Staircase , Beams , Columns , Flooring and Ceiling . Wood is a versatile Material By differeing in proportions but similar in connection they form different elements in a space.
Role 03| View 03
