Course Description:

This capstone design studio focuses on the challenge of designing a sustainable contract interior. Working in teams, each group will be assigned a different contract project type including corporate, institutional, healthcare, hospitality, and retail.  This project is presented to a graduate faculty jury and industry specialists for evaluation.

 (The program for the spring 2011 semester includes a corporate office space, a restaurant and a retail space) 

Educational Objectives:

• Competency in addressing how initial design strategies and concepts such as solar orientation, passive strategies, and internal space planning impacts interior environmental efficiencies and design development.
• Competency in the development of sustainable interior non-residential spaces, synthesizing traditional design considerations and green objectives.
• Competency in coordinating architectural, material, environmental, and decorative decisions that support the goal of sustainability.
• Familiarity of sustainable environmental control systems and strategies as they apply to non-residential environments.
• Competency in collaboration, consensus building, leadership, and team work, utilizing current methodologies and digital technologies to facilitate project collaboration and development.
• Understanding how sustainable approaches can be applied to as variety of non-residential environments, including corporate, institutional, healthcare, hospitality, and retail.

Studio Instructors:  May Julsuwan, LEED AP & Ethan Lu, AIA IDEC LEED AP