Faculty of Applied Science and Technology

SHERIDAN INSTITUTE Faculty of Applied Science and Technology ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY

COURSE: Arch 31452 ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO 5

Assignment 4: Interior Space Design (5%)

At the scale of the city, architects and planners use buildings to enclose and define outdoor public spaces like streets and squares. At the scale of an indivudual room designers use the spatial boundaries to control the quality of the light and views, to establish the level of comfort by moderating proportions. By manipulating the visual properties of spatial boundaries through the selection of the textures and colours of the enclosing surfaces designers create unified harmonious effects upon the visitor… …As space begins to be captured, enclosed, molded, and organized by the elements of mass, architecture comes into being…Francis D.K.Ching pg 94

OBJECTIVES To select, and manipulate architectural elements to enclose living spaces. To experiment with visual properties of form that affect the quality of the space. To experiment with the nature of a vertical dividing plane that both separates and joins spaces together to moderate the continuity and privacy of the spaces. To experiment with the nature of base planes and overhead planes to define space.

1 Professor Ken Snell 5/10/18 MISSION Your mission is to design the interior layout of one of your typical units.

1.0 Unit Design Concept Provide a floor plan of one of your typical units plotted at a scale of 1:50M.

2.0 Elements of Spatial Enclosure Manipulate the properties of horizontal and vertical spatial enclosure elements (planes, columns openings etc) to create interesting and varied spaces that are open to each other yet maintain the appropriate amount of separation.

3.0 Openings Manipulate the properties of the openings to the outside and to adjacent rooms to create interesting patterns of light and shadow, to open views to the outside and adjacent rooms, moderate the traffic flow through the spaces and to control privacy.

4.0 Massing Model Prepare a massing model of your proposed dwelling unit. Create an overall isometric or axonometric overhead view of the entire dwelling unit with the ceiling removed and one interior view of the principal rooms showing the most interesting spatial features including the floor and ceiling.

5.0 Discussion Provide freehand notes overlayed upon the printed images (complete with leader lines) to indicate the visual properties with which you are working or provide a separate written description of the qualities of space elements of enclosure and materials chosen.

6.0 Submission Files on W: drive as instructed and 11” x 17” (Tabloid) report with images Due Date: Week 5b end of class

6.0 Evaluation 1 Unit plan (walls, windows, furniture) /20 2 Overall view (iso/axo) /20 3 Interior view of the principal rooms /20 4 Properties of horizontal planes both ground and overhead /10 (floor and ceiling) 5 Properties of vertical planes (surfaces, textures, colours) /10 6 Properties of openings (shape, position, orientation etc) /10 7 Discussion /10 Total /100