Interior Design Technology Project
- 3D Parametric Design & Design Fabrication

Courtesy of ID382 (Design Technology IV) Class Students (Spring 2020)

Professor Ethan Lu

Interior Design Department

Students explored the methodology of modular design and its relationship to digital fabrication by designing a
series of interior design related objects and surfaces. Students exercised the design strategy of recontextualization by starting with an idea, outside of the interior design field, and extracting a unique language as a basis for creating interior design objects and surfaces.

Students worked together as a group to develop their custom modules, selected an element from nature (non-interior design related), developed a rationalized, abstracted translation, considered materials for fabrication, and documented this process by hand sketches, physical models, and/or 3D modeling with Revit.

The modular objects/surfaces were documented in the plan, section (or 3D section), and elevation. The perspectival renderings demonstrate the potential for the fabricated object/ surface to be installed or incorporated into interior furnishing or interior installation in the physical space.