Table of Contents:
  • Planning strategies : Spatial relationships ; Spatial strategies ; Drawing diagrams ; Circulation strategies : Entrance: art gallery / Adolf Krischanitz ; Circulation and space ; Planning solutions : Shine boutique / LEAD and NC Design & Architecture
  • From brief to proposal : The brief ; Spatial requirements : Drawing planning diagrams ; COS stores / William Russell, Pentagram ; Planning diagrams ; Relating the planning diagrams to the site : Exhibition: 'Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners: from the house to the city / Ab Rogers Design
  • The existing building's impact : Analyzing an existing building ; Introducing new into existing ; Intervention : Black Pearl House / Studio Rolf in partnership with Zecc Architects ; Insertion : Silence Room, Selfridges department store / Alex Cochrane Architects ; Installation : KMS Team studio / Tools Off.Architecture
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Introduction : What is interior design? ; Modernism and the free plan
  • Points of departure : The existing site : Trace Architecture Office / Trace Architecture ; The client : DAKS / Alex Nevedomskis ; The building programme : Sushi-teria restaurant / form-ula
  • The use of precedent studies : Learning from history ; Site precedents ; Organization precedents : Spatial precedents: a space within a space: Glass House / Philip Johnson ; Circulation precedents : A controlled pathway: Ikea and Tiger stores ; Learning from other disciplines
  • Developing conceptual ideas : Conceptual starting points ; Concepts based on the clients : Developing a conceptual idea ; Concepts based on the programme ; Concepts based on the site : Cargo / group8 ; Concepts based on the design approach : Mississippi Blues restaurant / Stanley Saitowitz, Natoma Architects
  • Developing three-dimensional spatial compositions : Defining space : Forming spatial compositions: Glass House / Philip Johnson ; Exploring contrasts ; Forming spatial compositions : Cahier D'Exercices boutique / Saucier + Perotte Architectes ; Exploratory modelmaking
  • Designing in action : Manipulating volumes : Exploring the opportunities offered by the section ; Canary Wharf underground station / Foster + Partners
  • Simple plans, complex sections : Proposed dental surgery / Sam Leist ; Responding to the existing site ; Sectional models
  • Communicating spatial organizations : Useful drawing types ; Communicating a spatial concept: Hair salon proposal / Oliver Corrin ; Freehand/sketch drawings : Creating freehand drawings ; Models
  • What next? : Detailed planning ; The design process ; Designing in detail
  • Glossary