Spatial strategies for interior design / Ian Higgins.

Includes bibliographical references (page 185) and index.

Introduction : What is interior design? ; Modernism and the free plan -- Points of departure : The existing site : Trace Architecture Office / Trace Architecture ; The client : DAKS / Alex Nevedomskis ; The building programme : Sushi-teria restaurant / form-ula -- The use of precedent studies : Learning from history ; Site precedents ; Organization precedents : Spatial precedents: a space within a space: Glass House / Philip Johnson ; Circulation precedents : A controlled pathway: Ikea and Tiger stores ; Learning from other disciplines -- Developing conceptual ideas : Conceptual starting points ; Concepts based on the clients : Developing a conceptual idea ; Concepts based on the programme ; Concepts based on the site : Cargo / group8 ; Concepts based on the design approach : Mississippi Blues restaurant / Stanley Saitowitz, Natoma Architects -- Planning strategies : Spatial relationships ; Spatial strategies ; Drawing diagrams ; Circulation strategies : Entrance: art gallery / Adolf Krischanitz ; Circulation and space ; Planning solutions : Shine boutique / LEAD and NC Design & Architecture -- From brief to proposal : The brief ; Spatial requirements : Drawing planning diagrams ; COS stores / William Russell, Pentagram ; Planning diagrams ; Relating the planning diagrams to the site : Exhibition: 'Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners: from the house to the city / Ab Rogers Design -- The existing building's impact : Analyzing an existing building ; Introducing new into existing ; Intervention : Black Pearl House / Studio Rolf in partnership with Zecc Architects ; Insertion : Silence Room, Selfridges department store / Alex Cochrane Architects ; Installation : KMS Team studio / Tools Off.Architecture -- Developing three-dimensional spatial compositions : Defining space : Forming spatial compositions: Glass House / Philip Johnson ; Exploring contrasts ; Forming spatial compositions : Cahier D'Exercices boutique / Saucier + Perotte Architectes ; Exploratory modelmaking -- Designing in action : Manipulating volumes : Exploring the opportunities offered by the section ; Canary Wharf underground station / Foster + Partners -- Simple plans, complex sections : Proposed dental surgery / Sam Leist ; Responding to the existing site ; Sectional models -- Communicating spatial organizations : Useful drawing types ; Communicating a spatial concept: Hair salon proposal / Oliver Corrin ; Freehand/sketch drawings : Creating freehand drawings ; Models -- What next? : Detailed planning ; The design process ; Designing in detail -- Glossary.

This book explores the ways in which the organization of interior space can be developed from the initial concept through to the planning of a project. The straightforward text explains strategies, processes and methods that can be employed to transform an initial brief into an interior that provides an appropriate response to the projects demands. This is backed up with a wealth of visual material including photographs and specially created diagrams and models. Case studies and step-by-step exercises further illustrate the application of the principles and approaches introduced in the text. This is an invaluable practical and inspirational guide to a subject that all students of spatial design must master.