1. Interior Architecture Ohio University College of Fine Arts School of Art + Design
ART 4600, Interior Architecture Studio V
Fall Semester 2017
Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30 - 4:20
Matthew Ziff, Associate Professor
Office: W 325 Grover Center
Office Hours: MW: 11-12, 1-2
Telephone:

2. Details enrich design Details are often needed, or desired:
Where major planes intersect:
floors and walls
ceilings and walls
walls adjoining walls
Where elements enter into a plane:
door openings in a wall
window opening in a wall
skylight in a ceiling
soffit in a ceiling
Where materials change:
gypsum board to brick
wood panels to gypsum board
panels of any material to brick/stone

3. How Designers ‘Detail’
Reference documents & materials are typically required:
Interior Construction & Detailing for Designers & Architects
Interior Detailing: Concept to Construction: This is an excellent reference book that every interior designer should have.
No designer ‘knows’ by memory, the complexities of most detail conditions: they refer to books, previous projects, and construction specialists for assistance in detailing.

4. Details are created by Designing People!
Details in interior projects & spaces do not exist on their own: they are created by the designers for many possible reasons.
Details add visual interest and complexity.
Details resolve construction problems/situations.
Details help the fabricators and construction workers to accurately make what the designer intended.
This short video shows spaces and objects that contain many detailed conditions.

5. Details are expressive of a design sensibility
Details are expressive of a design sensibility. Details perform a visual and a functional role.
You, as a designer must have ideas and desires about the qualities of your project spaces and objects that include detail as an expressive and functional element.
Details show an unusual physical condition that a contractor or fabricator would need to see in order to fully understand your intention.

6. This is a detail drawing showing how the design of an ‘open riser’ stair tread is to be built.

7. Vertical Section through a typical retail environment counter.

8. How did the designer ‘know’ how to draw this?
It is typically a developmental process:
first do a sketch of what you are trying to achieve as an overall design.
next either show the sketch to a teammate or go to a reference book, in this case on ‘furniture construction.’
next think about the physical pieces and parts that you are intending to use, in this case a plastic laminate (Formica) finished surface, plywood box construction, and simple wood framing.
when you have a fairly well developed idea and a drawing of it, show it/send it to a cabinet manufacturer or fabricator and ask them if they can actually make this.

9. the fabricator will give you feedback: suggestions, modifications, and anything else that will allow your idea to be built.

10. Details such as these exterior (but could also be interior) stone facing conditions are relatively easy to find in reference books.

11. A typical interior gypsum board wall does not really need to be ‘detailed’ as any contractor knows how to build this.

12. These typical cabinet section drawings are not complex and show conditions that are widely familiar to most builders however, the specific sizes/dimensions may be custom for this project .

13. This is a typical kitchen cabinet ‘working drawing. ’ Notice the ‘5 Eq
This is a typical kitchen cabinet ‘working drawing.’ Notice the ‘5 Eq. Sections’ note. This means that the fabricator is responsible for figuring out the exact size of these five cabinets and doors as long as they are all the same size.

14. Details & Vertical Sections
Designers rely upon vertical sections and details to convey information that does not immediately meet the eye.
Details in designing are a result of an intentional refinement on the designer’s part.
Details do not exist on their own, you, as a designing person have to pursue them, create them, and use them to give functional and visual vitality to your work.
Details are drawn in any or all of the views we use: plan, vertical section, elevation, perspective and axonometric. Each view presents a different way of seeing the detail.

15. Detail of stair and handrail

18. Details of stair supports and treads (Google ‘interior stair details!)

19. Vertical Sections darkened portions of the drawing are where the physical objects represented have been ‘cut’ through. objects not darkened in are beyond the section cut, and are seen in elevation.

20. Vertical sections reveal inner relationships and structures.

33. Details A large view of a small, special condition

34. Details generally explain how physical components are constructed, related, and function.

35. Designers draw details to explain something that is out of the ordinary, or especially complex

38. This is a standard detail of a typical suspended ceiling

39. In the following images there are detailed pieces, parts and connections that give the design character, delicacy and interest.

47. A supporting post for a handrail: the designer created an interesting, distinctive and complex element: Why? Because humans are creative!

48. Stair detail: how the tread connects to the structure

50. Details of a fireplace surround

51. Detail of Interior Moulding

52. Details of an Interior Wall

53. Details of chair construction

54. A detailed, accurate, drawing of a stair: notice where the section cut happens: where the drawing is darkened in (poche)