Design Experience

Programme

MASTER'S DEGREE IN INTERIOR DESIGN

The History of Interior Design: The Masters

• Designing the Sartorial Space
• Residential: houses to show and houses to live in
• Designing in small spaces: Mini houses and Micro spaces
• The Importance of Detail in the Interior
• How to match styles
• Furnishing styles - history and trends
• The Detail as a Style Characteriser
• Environmentally sustainable materials and procedures in the Interior
• The choice of materials from floor and wall coverings to paints
• Composite materials and their use
• The choice of furnishing materials: from metals, glass, wood to plastics
• Fixed and mobile furniture:Brands and models of furniture accessories
  Furniture that can build space
• Color psychology
• Designing a space with colour
• Notions of plumbing: bathrooms and kitchens
• The office: home office, coworking/designing-History and Trends
• Commercial spaces: Retail history and trends
• The metric calculation and technical drawings as a consequence of the choice of project layout
• Indoor green
• Hotellerie seminar
• Elements of lighting technology: designing with light
• Iconic lamps
• Notions of Augmented Reality
• Classroom design workshop
• Digital graphic representation

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COURSE IN COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL LIGHTING DESIGN ONLINE 

• The language and design of light
• Light applied to architecture
• Historical notes about light
• Lighting Design outdoor

How to read a technical catalogue
Advanced lighting techniques
How to control and monitor light
Technology of directing light
Presentation of concept and project
Rendering lighting effects graphically_ visualisation

Theoretical focus:

• Key features of the Dialux programme, Search Engines
• Design possibilities (examples of realised projects)
• Introduction screens, preferences and command panels (Programme logic)
• Display options panel and shortcut commands

Construction of a building:

• Importing a dwg, Building exterior perimeter construction, Interior room construction, Windows and skylights, Room elements (pillars, ceilings), Room designation, Roof insertion

Construction of an advanced building:

• How to duplicate or build a new plan
• Inserting furniture (Dialux libraries and catalogues, importing 3ds files)
• Arrangement of elements, align commands, replace objects, text elements and dimensions
• Construction of multiple buildings
• External building elements (element construction, Boolean operations)
• Construction of outdoor areas and dehors (swimming pools, fields, gardens, ramps)

Theoretical focus_ Lights:

• Different types of luminaires and their applications in various areas of design.
• Analysis of the main photometric characteristics of a luminaire.
• Inserting photometries (Uld, ies, ldt), photometries from manufacturer plugins
• Luminaire Arrangement, Projector Aiming, Creating Lamp Group Scenes and Standard Lighting Scenes
• Modification of luminaires and emission/spectrum data - colour filters
• Hints of daylight scenes, Daylight System: Daylight scene generation and calculation, Calculation with daylight control system and skylight, Sun shading options and daylight control tool 'facade
• Calculation: Generating useful surfaces and calculation objects, calculation surfaces, area task surfaces
• Setting calculation options
• Results (reading and interpretation - graphs and false colours)
• Retail Project assignment to be customised in layout.
• Render: Materials and textures (creating coloured materials, textures and tilts), View setting
• Render in raytrace | HDR
• Raytrace render settings
• Post-production render in Photoshop

Template export options (generation and selection), Project data entry
Result displays (false colours - calculation surfaces)
Export pdf, DWG
Case studies
CAD software for lighting

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MASTER GARDEN DESIGN Online / Pistoia / Milan

Botany, anatomy, physiognomy of plants.
Knowledge of botanical and arboreal species
Sizes, foliage, colours, shapes.
Classification of species of ornamental interest.
Type of use  and function of ornamental plants
History of the garden
Contemporary Landscapers (drawing exercises)
Selection of plants, nursery material
Morphological analysis of the material.
Features and Components  soil
Urban greenery (Analysis and classification and functions of urban greenery)
Terraces design and roof gardens
Creative workshop with project
The vertical garden - Implementation of vertical greenery, differences between wall greenery and vertical gardens
Case histories: realisation and execution of works - Exaltation of sensory elements - Scents - Colours - Seasonal colours.

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