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 book intends to introduce architecture and interior architecture & design students on ways of creating architectural space. The first chapter introduces students to different spatial configurations using basic elements such as walls, floors and ceilings in order to create spaces with different architectural characteristics, such as collective or transition spaces. In order to achieve that, photos of physical models are used which are graphically edited with highlighting lines and explanatory text. Physical models are the main tool for all architecture and interior architecture students, allowing readers to understand, relate and copy the modelling techniques shown in each example. The following chapters follow the same approach in order to explain step by step the most contemporary approaches of composing space such as folding surfaces or combining curves which already are often used in contemporary practices and globlÓÀ