Composing Architecture and Interior Design [Paperback]

Composing Architecture and Interior Design introduces different ways of creating architectural space, based on controlled transformations of physical models. It explains how to compose architectural spaces step by step and can be used from the first years of architecture and interior design studies - and beyond.

This book demonstrates how generative design can be applied in architectural practice, regardless of having any knowledge of digital design software. If explained in one sentence, the base of generative digital design is the design logic of transformations.

The book starts by introducing different spatial configurations using basic elements, being walls, floors and ceilings, in order to create spaces with different architectural qualities, such as collective or transition spaces.

Throughout the book, the most contemporary approaches of composing space, such as folding surfaces or combining curves are explained step by step with diagrams and physical models. Each chapter begins with a globally acknowledged, built project.The main outstanding feature is the clear and structured way, with diagrams, physical model photos and descriptive text, with which the book explains how to compose architectural and interior design spaces step by step. It also focuses and explains how to use contemporary architectural techniques such as folding surfaces or curve manipulation - that are now found in a number of built or academic projects globally- from the first years of architecture and interior design studies. What is particularly interesting is that there currently are no architecture or interior design books that actually show how to compose space.The book demonstrates different methods that can also eventually be combined (such as combing a Fold with Curves) in order to form space with greater complexity and qualities, once the students follow the examples of each chapter.Another characteristic is that this basic knowledge book will also help stul32