Open AccessModelling the Interior:
Author(s) -
Alexandra Maria Dantas de Castro Araújo,
Ro Spankie
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
idea/idea journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2208-9217
pISSN - 1445-5412
DOI - 10.37113/ideaj.vi0.142
Subject(s) - interior design , focus (optics) , function (biology) , architecture , architectural engineering , process (computing) , space (punctuation) , field (mathematics) , computer science , interior architecture , human–computer interaction , engineering , visual arts , mathematics , art , pure mathematics , physics , evolutionary biology , optics , biology , operating system
Unlike the architecture that contains it, the domestic interior is not a solid entity, nor is it empty space. Rather, it is a fluid mobile field, filled with the detail of everyday life. Organic and self-organising by nature, the interior provides an enigmatic site for design research and innovation.
One of the problems facing the designer in discussing the domestic interior is the inability to represent it in three dimensions. What is needed is a modelling tool that shifts the focus from form to function, from whole to the fragment, from walls to wallpaper. This paper proposes to retrieve the doll’s house from the toy cupboard and re-examine it as a potential ‘modelling tool’ for interpreting and fabricating the domestic interior. Using a series of case-studies, we propose to use the doll’s house, firstly, as a critical tool to analyse the possible role of the model in the interior. Secondly, we propose to look at ways that the fabrication of a doll’s house might engage the student or designer in a process of making that is comparable to the practice of interior design.