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Spatial Design: Create Interior Spaces That Tell A Story
Audio: English
Level: Beginner
Lenght: 17 Lessons, 2H6M
Resources: 24 Downloads
Explore color, materials, furniture, and lighting to design joyful spaces inspired by a personal narrative
The way we live our lives becomes our own narrative, and we can design spaces inspired by it. Award-winning architecture practice Office S&M specialize in designing spaces that elevate the everyday through drama and beauty. They’ve won numerous awards, including Building Design’s Young Architect of the Year, and Best Use of Materials at the New London Architecture Don’t Move, Improve! Awards. Their work has also featured in publications including The Guardian, and on the BBC.
In this course, Office S&M’s founders Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen teach you the skills to execute your own design projects and create, or recreate, an interior environment perfectly suited to the way you want to live. Learn what a spatial narrative is and how it informs your design decisions. Explore each part of the process involved in planning your space and bringing it to life, from color and material choices, to floor plans, through to managing construction. Tell your own story through your unique space.Get to know the founders of architecture practice Office S&M, Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen. They explain how their business came to be, and present Office S&M’s projects, and achievements. They also share the influences that have shaped their work and the designers who have inspired them.
Begin the step-by-step process of your final project, starting with understanding spatial design. Look at a variety of examples to help you decide on the creative story of your space. Understand how determining a narrative for your space helps to make choices and design a space that’s suited to how you want to live. Catrina and Hugh then take you through the tools for the course, from physical materials to software, and their uses. Learn how to write a brief for a design project using an Office S&M project as a guide. Then see how to turn a written brief into a visual map, or ‘spatial brief’ by drawing out your plan.