2023

Design of Spaces

Name: Design of Spaces
Code: VIS12836L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Design

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Classes aim to provide theoretical and practical references under industrial design focusing on space design,
through the promotion of a project exercise targeted to a specific target group, where the student is taken to
explore project concepts, tools and methods regarding this subject.
It is also intended to develop analytical skills and student’s critical sense, as well as the domain of project conception based on suitable functional and aesthetic criteria.
- Provide the student with theoretical knowledge related to the history of space design.
- Explore student skills at design project conception level, considering the specific domain of the technological
reality of industries related to the development of space design.
- Potentiate the quality of the solutions found by the student at the level of general assumptions underlying methodological, conceptual and operating practice of industrial design, in accordance with the specific
sector
of space design.

Contents

1. Theoretical introduction focused on the evolution of the design of spaces, with commercial incidence, from the end of the 19th century.
1.1. Analysis of case studies considered paradigmatic.
2. Projectual Context
2.1. Ergonomic contextualization of spaces according to Neufert.
2.2. Generic typologies of commercial spaces.
2.3. Types, materials and technologies of equipment and their characteristics considering different typologies of space.
3. Project
3.1. Selection and analysis of the typology of space to be developed.
3.2. Analysis and characterization of market and type public.
3.3. Analysis of typologies of space organization according to functional, aesthetic and symbolic needs. 3.4. Development of design hypotheses.
3.5. Selection of design solution and development of technical drawings and renders;
3.6. Solution testing and validation;
3.7. Development of models and panels of communication of results.

Teaching Methods

Classes will be held to share and discuss knowledge with the student promoting the introduction and development of their research skills and critical interpretation of data that supports the project, giving him Project skills to reconcile the different basic factors that compose Design: aesthetic, function, technology, costs, client and ecology.

In NORMAL SEASON students may choose between:

1. CONTINUOUS EVALUATION SCHEME

a. Class participation: 20%;

b. Work developed during the period with the accompaniment of the teacher, which must be submitted, at least, to a periodic evaluation with public disclosure of the classifications: 40%;

c. Presentation and defense of the work developed during the classes, which occurs during the "Regular Season Evaluations": 40%.

2. FINAL EVALUATION SCHEME

a. Work developed during the period with the teacher's accompaniment: 40%;

b. Examination based on the contents taught: 60%.