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Domestika

Spatial Design: Create Interior Spaces That Tell A Story

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Overview

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Explore color, materials, furniture, and lighting to design joyful spaces inspired by a personal narrative
  • Introduction
  • Understanding Spatial Narrative
  • Designing the Experience
  • Design Management
  • More than a Mood Board
  • Final project
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.

Syllabus

  • About Us
  • Our Influences
  • An Introduction to Spatial Design
  • What Tools Are We Going to Use?
  • How to Write a Brief?
  • The Spatial Brief
  • Telling Stories through Your Space
  • Developing the Character of Your Space
  • Personal Colours
  • Innovative Materials
  • Enhancing with Furniture
  • Tuning with Lighting
  • Cost Plan
  • Builders and Construction
  • Bringing It All Together
  • Final Tips and Presenting the Project
  • Getting Your New Space Seen!
  • Spatial Design: Create Interior Spaces That Tell A Story

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Office S&M

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