Materials and interior design

Part 1. 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

Part II. Selection

The brief and client : Visual identity ; Cost, quality, and program

The site : Existing buildings : Step by step: Recording materials in an existing building; Step by step: Making a sensory reading of a site ; New buildings, proposed buildings, buildings under construction ; Temporary sites ; Context

The concept : Step by step: Surface to form ; Step by step: combining materials

Part III. Application : Material properties : Functional properties ; Relative properties ; Sensory properties: Sight; Step by step: understanding color; Touch; Smell and taste; Hearing ; Environmental properties: Be informed; Be responsible; Be creative ; Subjective properties: Personal readings; Socially or politically constructed readings; Cultural readings; The maker's reading

Material detail : Step by step: Repeat components ; Step by step: Recording joints and junctions ; Step by step: Visiting an exemplar building

Part IV. Communicating from concept to completion : Thinking and communicating through drawing

Concept stage : Thinking "through the 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" samples objects ; Precedent images

Design development : Drawings and models ; 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 conventions ; Written representation and description ; Prototypes ; Post-construction and occupation

Part V. Material classifications and sources : Material classifications : Polymers ; Metals ; Wood and other organic fibers ; Ceramics and glass ; Stone and slate ; Animal products ; Composites ; New and emerging materials and processes ; Materials development ; Materials processing

Material sources and resources : Practice libraries [private] ; University/institutional libraries [semiprivate or public] ; Materials databases ; Trade fairs, exhibitions, manufacturers' showrooms

Part VI. Case studies : Atmosphere: Beijing Noodle Bar / Design Spirits Co. Ltd. ; Brand identity: Projects for Levi Strauss / Jump Studios ; Narratives: Collaborative interiors / Tracey Neuls ; Pattern and surface: Installations / Gunilla Klingberg ; Creating space: Softwall + softblock modular system / molo design, ltd ; A material response to site: Concept for an installation / Alex Hoare ; Sustainable exhibition design: "Atmosphere" / Casson Mann ; Material detail and construction I. Pink Bar / Jakob + MacFarlane ; Material detail and construction II. Republic of Fritz Hensen / BDP and TinTab.