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Interior Design One

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The Design Process

The Design Process, which is the Schematic Phase of designing a space, is crucial to the success of a designer. It helps you put onto paper and in to words your ideas and plans for a space. It also gives you something to look back at as a reference throughout the project. It helps you stay focused keep your priorities straight.

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Theory in Action

My peers and I worked together to create a project that physically moves while also representing continuation, unity, and balance (three of Gestalt's theories). We chose to create a hot air balloon scene as we felt it was a good show of these three theories. Balance is represented through the height of each air balloon and placement of each cloud. Unity through the colors we painted the bulbs. And continuation through the repetition of clouds and "hot air balloons".

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Theory as an Experience

This is a representation of "Meaning of Place Theory". Using the Design Process, my team and I eventually landed on the idea of a camping trip. We all grew up going camping and loving the outdoors, so it really helped the flow of ideas when it came to this project. Many people who have been or do go camping can verify that it does give a sense of belonging. We incorporated all five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The whole scene is a camping trip, but to add a little extra we used twinkle lights to create stars for sight. For sound, we had the sounds of crickets and other creatures, but also the sound of a crackling campfire. For smell, we had a scent diffuser with the smell of pine. For taste and touch, we had s'mores!

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Theory Applied to Interior Design

This was our final project of the semester. We each chose a unique article that exemplified Change Theory. My article was on churches and how they changed with the New World (America). With this new land, came new resources. Previously, churches were made of stone and other heavy materials that we not available to colonists. So, to build churches, they used wood...for everything. I showed this by building my whole project with smaller wood materials like popsicle sticks. I wanted to represent the change in materials that came with the change of scenery and lifestyle.

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Gestalt Theory

We arranged colored paper squares on white paper to demonstrate the six laws that make up Gestalt Theory. These are continuation, similarity, proximity, symmetry, figure-ground, and closure.

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