Interior Design –Definition, Practice

and its Necessity

Architect/Enp Marie Grace A. Patadlas

References:

1. Interiors – an Introduction By Karla J. Nielson and David A. Taylor

2. Drafting an Visual Presentation for Interior Designers By Lydia Sloan Cline

3. Interiors and Color Book By Francesc Zamora Mola

4. United Architects of the Philippines Doc. 203 –Specialized Allied Services

Is Interior Design part of an Architect’s Job?

Is Interior Design an Architect’s Job?

YES

UNITED ARCHITECTS OF THE PHILIPPINES Document 203,

Interior Design Allied Professional

What then is the Interior Designer for if the Architect can do

interior design works?

Is Interior Design an Architect’s Job?

YES

Interior Design

• In a building, the planning, decoration, and furnishing of the interior.

Interior Fit-Out

• The installation of ceilings, floors, furnishings, and partitions of a building, as well as the installation of all required building services.

Sample Interior Design Works

• Bare (from nothing)

• Redesign

• Renovation

• Restoration

• Interior Fit out works

Need for Interior Design

• New buildings require complete designs

• Interiors need refurbishing

• Lifestyle changes of users

• Interior fashion constantly changes

Interior Design Typologies

Interior Typologies

• Residential • Commercial• Institutional/Civic• Health • Educational • Industrial • Transportation• Sports and Recreation • Agricultural • Accessory

Residential• Indigenous family dwelling units • single-detached units • school or company staff housing • church rectories • single family dwellings • parks, playgrounds, pocket parks, parkways, promenades and playlots• single-attached or duplex or townhouse, each privately owned • school dormitories (on-campus) • single-attached or duplex or townhouse, each privately owned • school dormitories (on-campus) • Leased single detached dwelling unit, cottage with more than one independent

unit and duplexes • boarding and lodging houses • multiple housing units for lease or for sale • townhouses, each privately owned • boarding houses • accessories, rowhouses, townhouses, tenements and apartments • multiple privately-owned condominium • private or off-campus dormitories

Commercial• steam/dry cleaning outlets • party needs and accessories • hotels, motels, inns, pension houses and apartels• storage garage and boat storage • commercial garage and parking buildings, display for cars, tractors, etc. • bus and railways depots and terminals and offices • pawnshops, money shops, photo and portrait studios, shoeshine/repair

stands, retail drugstores, tailoring and dress shops • bakeshops and bakery goods stores • construction supplies and building materials such as electrical and

electronic stores, plumbing supply stores • wholesale and retail stores • shopping centers, malls and supermarkets • wet and dry markets • restaurants, drinking and dining establishments with less than one

hundred occupancies • day and night clubs, bars, cocktails • department stores, shopping malls

Commercial

A. Office

B. Retail

• B.1 Shopping Malls and Centers

• B.2 Department Stores

• B.3 Boutiques/Retail

• C. Restaurant

• D. Hotel

Commercial - Office

Commercial - Office

Commercial - Office

Commercial - Office

Commercial - Retail

Commercial - Retail

Commercial - Restaurant

Commercial - Restaurant

Commercial - Restaurant

Commercial - Hotel Suite Rooms

Commercial - Hotel Rooms

Commercial - Hotel Toilets

Commercial - Hotel Corridor

Commercial - Hotel Corridor

Commercial - Hotel Corridor

Commercial - Hotel Corridor

Commercial - Hotel Function Rooms

Commercial - Hotel Function Rooms

Commercial - Hotel Function Rooms

Institutional/Civic• convents and monasteries • military or pocket barracks • churches, mosque, temples, shrines, chapels and

similar places of worship • civic or government centers• other types of government buildings • police and fire stations, guard houses • jails, prisons, reformatories and correctional

institutions • nursing homes for ambulatory patients • school and home for children over kindergarten age • orphanages • all other types of large complexes for public services

Civic- Museum

Health

• outpatient clinics, family planning clinics, lying-in clinics, diagnostic clinics, medical and clinical laboratories

• mental hospitals, sanitaria and mental asylums

• rehabilitation centers

• leprosaria and quarantine station

• hospitals, sanitaria and homes for the aged

• nurseries for children of kindergarten age or non-ambulatory patients accommodating more than 5 persons

Health - Hospital

Educational• pre-schools, elementary and high schools with not

more than 16 classrooms • branch library and museum • elementary schools and highschools not more than 20

classrooms • educational institutions like schools, colleges,

universities, vocational, seminaries, convents, including school auditoriums, gymnasia, reviewing stands, little theaters, concert halls, opera houses

• seminar/workshop facilities • training centers/facilities • libraries, museums, exhibition halls and art galleries • civic centers, clubhouses, lodges, community centers

Educational – Conference Room

Educational – Conference Room

Educational – Training Rooms

Educational – Computer Training Rooms

Educational – Library

Educational – Library

Educational – Library

Educational – Library

Educational – Library

Educational – Library

Industrial

• gasoline filling and station • Medium Industrial which shall include storage and

handling of hazardous and highly flammable materials• Medium Industrial buildings for storage and handling

of flammable materials• Division G-3 Medium Industrial buildings for wood

working activities, paper cardboard manufacturers, textile and garment factories

• Division G-4 Medium Industrial, for repair garages and engine manufacture

• Division G-5 Medium Industrial for aircraft facilities

Transportation

• port facilities

• airports and heliport facilities

• all other types of transportation complexes

• aircraft hangars

• commercial parking lots and garages

Sports and Recreation• clubhouses and recreational uses such as golf courses, tennis courts

operated by the government or private individuals as membership organizations for the benefit of their members, families and guests.

• amusement halls and parlors• massage and sauna parlors• health studios and reducing salons • billiard halls, pool rooms, bowling alleys and golf club • dancing schools, disco parks, dance and amusement hall • gymnasia, pelota courts and sports complex • Theaters and auditoriums • concert hall and opera houses • convention halls • little theater, audio-visual room • dance halls, cabarets, ballrooms • skating rinks • cockfighting areas • dance halls, ballrooms

Agricultural

• sheds

• barns

• poultry houses

• piggeries

• hatcheries

• stables

• greenhouses

• granaries

Accessory• private garages, carports • towers and silos, smokestacks and chimneys • swimming pools including shower and locker

room • stages, platforms and similar structures • pelota, tennis or basketball courts • tombs, mausoleums, niches • fence over 1.80 m high • steel or concrete tanks • aviaries and aquariums and zoo structures • banks and record vaults

Break Time

Furniture Arrangements

1. Function

2. Circulation

3. Human Factors

Furniture Arrangements

• Function – the use an environment will have and the activities that will take place there; it dictates the selection and the arrangement of the furniture; functions should not interfere with other functions.

Furniture Arrangements

• Circulation – Furniture arrangement needs to accommodate free movement or circulation from one space to another; Furniture should be planned to enhance the movement by allowing traffic to flow or by restricting and redirecting the traffic when necessary.

Furniture Arrangements

• HUMAN FACTORS

- Anthropometrics

- Standard Clearances

- Proxemics

- Crowding

- Territoriality

Anthropometrics

The dimensions of the human form; must be standard of measure for interior design

Standard Clearances

1. Major traffic paths should be .90 meter or more2. Minimal clearance for traffic shall be .30 m wide3. Seating pieces for piano, desks, coffee table/small table shall

maintain clearance of .30 m. This also gives room for the user to extend his/her legs.

4. Comfortable dining requires .60 m per person 5. In order to accommodate a seated dinner and space behind for

passage serving a .90 m space shall be maintained. 6. Getting in and out of chair requires .30 m space. 7. Bed to dresser space shall be at least .90 meter8. Space between 2 beds shall be at least .90 meter9. Bed to wall clearance shall at least be .30 meter10. Bathroom clearance for non disabled shall at least be .90 – 1 m

Proxemics

- by Edward T. Hall

- Describes the way people use space and the way that use is related to culture.

Proxemics

1. Space of .30 distance signifies intimacy, affection, comfort, protection and physical aggression.

.30 meters

Proxemics

2. Ideally, each person is within an “invisible bubble” where he separates himself from everyone. Personal space is .30-1.20 m.

Proxemics

3. Social distance is 1.2-3.6 m, and thus having “formal relationship”

.30 -1.20 meters

Proxemics

4. Higher than 3.6 m is interpreted as public distance; little or no personal interaction.

1.20-3.6 meters

Crowding

- explored by Paul Chombart de Lauwe.

• When people have less than 8-10 sqm per person in residences, space crowding exists and illness, stress are rampant. Whereas, people who have more than 14 sqm per person, have lesser stress experiences.

Territoriality

• A study of proxemics that deals with the needed to have a space of our own.