ICM 217E - Intr.to Interior Architecture

Course Objectives

Course aims;
1. Preparing the students for the interior architectural design studio and its process
2. Defining interior environment, interior architect’s identity and scope of interior architecture, discussing relations of interior architecture with architecture and the other disciplines
3. Examining concepts of function, form and technology in sense of space and user interrelation
4. Introducing and defining the interior architectural design process and methodologies
5. Providing students to gain experience by means of site visits, tutorials, seminars and presentations

Course Description

Main definitions related with interior architecture; scope of interior architecture, its practice fields and relations with the other disciplines; interior architect’s identity; interior environment and interior space; properties of interior space, spatial effects, relations, transitions, interrelation between interior-exterior space; relation of space and user with function, form and technology; finishings, furnitures, equipments in application of interior space; design process phases and design methodologies in interior space