Department of Interior Design
IND 202 – Interior Design IV
SPRING 2015
aims and objectives This project aims to help students to demonstrate creative and practical skills in Interior
Design, to develop and produce practical work of high professional standard, to
understand the importance of applying the techniques, processes, technical aspects,
rules and regulations involved in the construction of an interior structure, to demonstrate
how issues involved in the interaction between people, objects and space are
successfully incorporated in the proposal for spatial design, to evaluate and
incorporate in the design the physical and psychological needs, movements, activities,
moods, senses and behaviors of a target audience and use materials, colors and
finishes in a creative way when designing a contemporary interior environment.
assignment brief You are required to choose a painting by a famous painter (anyone at any period). You
need to STUDY THIS PAINTING CAREFULLY – who draws it – in what decade/movement is
situated – what is the materiality of it – what is the meaning of it, what it portrays. You
are, then, required to re-think/re-sketch/re-design and re-construct the painting you
chosen using your own interpretation of it of how it can be applied as a whole in an
interior space of a gallery. You will design a gallery-café which will work as a café and
as an exhibition space at all times. The gallery-café will serve to customers’ coffees,
sandwiches, salads, wine, cupcakes and other snacks and drinks while them enjoying
artists who can go there and exhibit their art, photography, poetry and books.
requirements The process and finally the result of the project must include a booklet which will
consists of the painting you have chosen, and all information needed about it,
materiality research, as well as your sketches that will lead you to the final construction
and design of the gallery-café. The final construction of the galley-café will be drawn
and finalized in sketch-up and AutoCAD and will be included in the booklet as well.
You will need an A3 booklet with a hard cover – preferably black.
assignment steps –
PHASE 1 (WEEKS 1+2)
Study the painting you chose, identify the purpose of it. Write down who made it, when
and how. Does it have a background story? If yes, tell it. Collect a photographic
sequence of it that will show its use in different areas or its use by different people and
situations. Identify the client, his needs and what it is that our design should reflect.
Record information - Select and analyze the information gathered. Compose a
research and create an inspiration board
PHASE 2 (WEEK 3)
Start re-creating the painting chosen by inserting it within a space. How the space will
look like? Will it be a whole of total linearity, will the interior of the space be curvilinear,
modern, art nouveau, vintage, surreal, abstract??? List and evaluate the material
gathered - Integrate all material gathered and propose a research.
PHASE 3 (WEEKS 4+5+6)
Conduct a research gallery-cafés. How are they working? What is their spatial
atmosphere? What furniture do they have? What is the suitable lighting arrangement
for this kind of spaces? Translate all inspirational material into a mood board - Discuss
and evaluate the Concept and Proposal presentation as well as distinguish users’
needs.
PHASE 4 (WEEKS 7+8+9)
Estimate movements, activities, moods, senses and behaviors to design the best
possible arrangement. Determine and evaluate the choice of materials and furniture.
Examine and experiment with various materials.
PHASE 5 (WEEK 10+11+12)
Produce presentation models and presentation drawings. Locate what is important to
be included in a presentation. Practice in various presentation techniques.
PHASE 6
This is the last phase where you will present all stages of the project.
*** You are advised to use all techniques and methods
learned until now in order to produce a well-made booklet
and an amazing-re-make of a painting which will be the
concept of the whole space.
Deadline: 13th of May, 2015
you are assessed on the followings research & sketches: 20%
experimentation: 20%
final drawings: 20%
concept: 20%
presentation: 20%
notable paintings 
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The Birth of Venus, Sandro Boticcelli, c. 1485
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), Leonardo Da Vinci, c. 1503/06
Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh, 1889
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Dance at Bougival, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883
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The Kiss, Gustav Klimt, c.1907/08
Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, c. 1942
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The Elephants, Salvador Dali, c.1948
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The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1498
The Scream, Edvard Munch, c. 1893
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Le Fils de L’Homme (Son of Man), Rene Magritte, 1964
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Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow, Piet Mondrian, 1937-42
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Pablo Picasso, 1907
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Gray Tree, Piet Mondrian, 1911
Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937
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Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, Claude Monet, 1919
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The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali, 1931
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), Jackson Pollock, 1950
Brooklyn Bridge, Andy Warhol, 1983
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Drowning Girl, Roy Lichtenstein, 1963
Composition, Willem de Kooning, 1955
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The Tree of Life, Gustav Klimt, 1909