Home Space Design and Rapid Expression (Revised Edition)

Author: Yang Jian (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: Interior design is a comprehensive art that shapes the atmosphere of space, but it is also an art that is difficult to express and master. Compared to other design disciplines, the most challenging aspect of interior design is how to present the designer's imagination in a form that the general public can understand. Due to the inclusive nature of space, people often struggle to grasp the full meaning of a spatial form at a glance. The temporal and spatial dynamic characteristics of interior spaces determine the difficulty of design expression. As a result, for a long time, interior design education primarily focused on teaching design expression skills. To adapt to this situation, technique-based books on design expression became the mainstream textbooks for interior design programs. Among all such books, those that discuss perspective techniques dominate. Perspective should indeed play a significant role in establishing design concepts. Through the process of drawing perspective views, designers can visually verify the spatial forms they envision, helping them to finalize their design concepts. However, in the expression of design proposals, perspective is primarily used as a tool to persuade design stakeholders, rather than as a tool for designers to determine the scale of interfaces and objects within the interior space. Paul Laseau, an American scholar, wrote thoughtfully in the perspective section of his book Architectural Representation Handbook: "An interesting contradiction is that while there are numerous publications on perspective as a drawing method, it is actually the least used in design work. Looking through countless books on perspective, one realizes that most of them focus heavily on the techniques of drawing perspective views, creating a sense of reverence in designers or drafters, yet they rarely discuss the utility of perspective in the design process. Perspective views are often seen as meticulously rendered illustrations intended for clients to admire or as tools for advertising. Generally, such drawings are created only after the design process is complete and the final proposal has been determined by the client, serving as a visual representation of the designed building or space environment." This phenomenon has become even more pronounced since computer drawing has become the mainstream method for perspective representation. In reality, true professional interior designers understand that hand-drawn conceptual sketches, including floor plan layouts, elevation composition, and perspective sketches, are what truly embody the designer's initial creativity and visual thinking. At least for now, computers cannot yet match human hands in this field. For professionally trained designers, the coordination between eyes and brain far surpasses the coordination between humans and machines, especially in the realm of visual thinking. This book presents numerous home design cases and analyzes and demonstrates their design expressions, aiming to convey methods for handling home spaces, techniques for spatial arrangement, and concepts and attitudes toward home design. It also strives to explore the principles of home design. The book particularly emphasizes the importance of rational spatial arrangement in home design. In terms of expression, it adopts a nearly sketch-like form, quickly conveying the treatment and application of spatial decoration, allowing readers to understand the general process of home design, master a method for home design and rapid expression, and explore and improve this method.