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Post 05 Rengel's Chapter 5 Summary When designing for an interior project, interior designers mostly design a collection of rooms or spaces. Plus, if the professional is just designing a room, he needs to take in consideration the rooms beside it to have some sort of harmony going on. Indeed, the design goes beyond the room. In order to have cohesion in the relationships between the spaces and to respond to the needs of the client we have to decide which rooms join together and how we separate them visually, without necessarily using walls, to still maintain a sense of connection. The shelves create a sense of separation between the desks in a workplace, without using walls. In fact, this is the case for the " Large Single Spaces", such as the lobby of an hotel, where instead of walls, we use furniture to separate and define the different spaces that can occur in a lobby like seating areas, a bar and a front desk. These spaces are autonomous but need to be c...

Post 04 Rengel's Chapter 4 Summary: This chapter, compared to the other chapters we have seen focuses on one space in particular, which is the room which can refer to "fully enclosed and private rooms, such as bedrooms and private offices" and more open spaces such as "living rooms and dining rooms". Basically a good room, needs to be functional. In order for a room to be functional, it needs to accommodate the needs of the client, have easy access to the room, arranged with the "proper furniture and equipment". Additionally, there are many factors that decide if a room is a "good room", like the size and shape of the basic unit, the arrangement of the furniture, the circulation of people in the room but also how to enter and exit the room, the room's connection to other spaces and the exterior and the richness and multilayers of the room. This goes down then to five important elements which are: envelope , contents , flow , ...

Post 03 The study of Ergonomics in Interior Design is there, so that architects and most importantly interior designers can provide better spaces and furniture for our clients which will then positively impact on their well being ( whether it is physical or emotional). "Ergonomics is the study of the interaction between people and machines and the factors that affect the interaction ". At first, this study was limited to the workplace, but this definition expands the limits because it could be a residential setting or a restaurant interior, because humans in everywhere they go, they want to be comfortable, safe and healthy. In order to respect all three goals (comfort, safety,health) we need to: 1) identify and eliminate the risks and possible dangers in the space. 2) analyze the functions based on the client's needs. 3) design (process) " has been somewhat formalized into a series of steps that gradually and sequentially lead from all the initial fragm...

Post 02 The second chapters of the two books by Rengel and Nussbaumer are linked in the fact that it discusses mostly about the "Basic Human Needs" when it comes to comfort in a space, so that people can move with ease within a safe and healthy space, be productive, be comfortable, and have easy access to the things they want. According to Michael Laurie, a landscape architect, there are three categories of human factors which are: (01)Physical factors , which will study corporal characteristics of space occupants, within a specific environment. This exploration will involve the Anthropometrics , which is "the science of body measurements and proportions of the human body in various activities". These factors are so important because it impacts heavily on the physiological and the psychological factors. That is why there are several rules, regulations and codes that architects and interior designers have to follow about the "human dimension stan...