Space Planning Basics

Definitive guide to space planning, revised and updated with the latest interior design techniques, examination requirements, and sustainability considerations Space Planning Basics shows how to approach space planning in a way that ensures all considerations are met, from preliminary floor plans, to client programming needs, to how factors such as building codes and environmental factors affect a spatial composition, to sustainability.With step-by-step methodology based on the author team's combined decades of design experience, this authoritative guide is the de facto reference on the subject. The text includes current design approaches, building evaluation processes, structural guidelines to replicate the current professional process with a clear, highly practical, and comprehensive approach, and basic programming skills.Text, drawings, graphics, and practice exercises are included throughout to reinforce learning, and each chapter contains recommended resources for further reading