Week 3
Monday, 2/2
Design Notebook images
News: Home Depot to close all Expo Design Centers (Interior Design magazine article)
Sustainability
US Building Impacts
- 12% Water consumption
- 39% CO2 emmissions
- 65% Waste output
- 71% Electricity consumption
" the ability to meet the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs"
- The Brundtland Report, UN document, 1987
Sustainable interiors are not fully possible without integration of the interior design with the building design.
Interior designers are often at a disadvantage in sustainable design - many of the decisions that impact a project's "greenness" have already been made before the interior designer is consulted.
Interior designers must look at the building design as a whole to be sustainable.
Guidelines for green home remodeling
Review the ReGreen Strategy Library (pages 61-64 of the ReGreen Guidelines - link and handout)
- ReGreen requirements that impact interiors only include?
Guidelines for green home construction
Review the LEED-H checklist (link and handout)
- LEED-H requirements that impact interiors only include?
Review the Green Built North Texas Construction Protocol (link and handout)
Requires Energy Star certification (link)
- GBNT requirements that impact interiors only include?
Review the NAHB Model Green Home Building Guidelines - soon to be the NAHB National Green Building Standard (link and handout of contents)
- NAHB requirements that impact interiors only include?
Emerging Green professions and designations
- Certified Green Building Professional, www.nahbgreen.org/Education/greenprofessional.aspx
- Accredited Green Building Verifier, www.nahbgreen.org/Certification/becomeverifier.aspx
- LEED-GA and LEED-AP+, www.gbci.org/ - New format for designations explained at http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1936 and http://www.gbci.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=83
- GBNT Verifier (regional program), http://www.greenbuiltnorthtexas.com/aboutgbntverification.htm
Links:
- Green Built North Texas; www.greenbuiltnorthtexas.com
- USGBC LEED Rating Programs, www.usgbc.org
- ReGreen, ASID and USGBC, Green Home Guide, www.greenhomeguide.org
- NAHB National Green Building Program, www.nahbgreen.org
Assignment:
- What do the various green building programs have in common? Create a list of main principles that each of the three programs share (LEED, GBNT, NAHB). Example - energy efficiency
- Compare and contrast how each program deals with the principles. A paragraph for each principle
- Which program is best and worst? Why?
Wednesday, 2/4
The Principles of Design
The principles are abstract concepts that are used to create and evaluate design. Good designers use these principles to achieve a purpose, look, mood, feeling, or reaction.
- Scale
- Proportion
- Balance
- Rhythm
- Emphasis
- Unity
The Elements of Design
The elements are the tools used to accomplish the principles.
- Point
- Line
- Shape
- Mass
- Space
- Color
- Texture
- Pattern
- Light
The lists may differ slightly for various design fields and between different sources, but the basic ideas are the same. For example, some sources include Contrast as either a principle or element of design.
- Is Contrast a separate principle/element? or is it covered by another one already?
- If included, which list should Contrast be on?
- Discuss Discover magazine article, The Meaning of Metaphor, and the Bouba/Kiki relationship - which shape is kiki, which is bouba?
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Color is often thought of as the most important element. There is even an entire course just for Color Theory.
- Why is color emphasized more than the others in the text and curriculum?
- See the Color Matters pages under How Color Affects Us.
- Discuss color psychology. See the BBC Homes - Color site for a short explanation.
- Go to Peter Piper's Palette Picker. Use the online tool to create the major color schemes:monochromatic, analogous, complimentary
In-class exercise: Look at these two images that include the word "calm." Which one is actually calm? Why? Why is the other image not calm?
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Choose an adjective from the list below. Using the elements and principles of design, create a graphic using the word that conveys the feeling of the word.
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Display and discuss student images.
Links:
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking, Charlotte Jirousek, Cornell University
Color Theory Tutorial by Worqx
Color Matters
BBC Homes: Color
Assignment:
- Open the Powerpoint The Designer's Eye (the images may load slowly, be patient ) . Each slide has a pair of images of the same room or building with something changed from the left image to the right. Look at each pair of images with the principles and elements of design in mind. Write down what was changed, and what the change accomplished. Due Monday.