Materials and interior design / Rachel Brown and Lorraine Farrelly

historical context of materials and interior design : the industrial age: design movements and their materials : the evolution of materials : the historical influence of the environmental agenda and its impact on materials : the twenty-first century -- seelction : the brief and client ; visual identity ; cost, qualit and programme : the site ; existing buildings ; step by step: making a sensory reading of a site ; new buildings, proposed buildings, buildings under construction ; temporary sites ; context : the concept ; step by sep: surface to form : step by step: combining materials -- application : material properties ; functional properties ; relative properties ; sensory properties ; sight ; step by step: understanding colour ; touch ; smell and taste ; hearing ; enviornmental peroperties ; be informed ; be responsible ; be creative ; subjective properties ; personal readings ; socially of politically constructed readings ; cultural readings ; the maker's reading : material detail ; step by step: repeat components ; step by step: recording joints and junctions ; step ny step: visiting an exemplar building -- communication from concept to completion : thinking and communication through drawing : concept stage ; thinking "hrough material" ; thinking through the sketch" ; the sketchbook ; freehand sketches and "drawings" ; step by step: representing material atmospheres : step by step: representing existing materials ; sketch models and conceptual models ; materials vocabulary ; "spirit of place" sample objects ; precedent images : design development ; drawings and odels computer aided design (CAD) drawings ; sample boards and material products ; step by step: presenting material samples : detail and construction stage ; detail and working drawings ; drawing convetions ; written representatinn and description ; prototypes ; post-construction and occupation -- ,aterial classifications, processes and sources : material classifications ; polymers ; netals ; wood and other organic fubres ; ceramics and glass ; stone and slate ; animal products ; composites ; new and emergingg materials and processes ; materials development ; materials processing : material sources and resoources ; practice libraries (private) ; university/institutional libraries) ; material databases ; trade fairs, exhibitions, manufacturers' showrooms : case studies