IDSD 2860 - Sustainable Residential Design

The textbook Designing for Privacy + Related Needs is also used in IDSD 2870 and IDSD 4870.

• Understand how social, economic, cultural, and physical contexts inform interior design.
• Understand how systems thinking informs the practice of interior design.
• Recognize current and relevant events that are shaping contemporary society and the world.
• Recognize a variety of cultural norms.
• Demonstrate multi-cultural awareness.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively collaborate with multiple disciplines in developing design solutions.
• Define the breadth and depth of interior design’s impact and value.
• Understand theories related to the impact of the built environment on human experience, behavior, and performance.
• Understand the relationship between the natural, built, virtual, and technological environments as they relate to the human experience, wellbeing, behavior, and performance.
• Gather and apply human- centered evidence.
• Analyze and synthesize human perception and behavior patterns to inform design solutions.
• Apply human factors, ergonomics, and universal design principles to design solutions.
• Apply wayfinding techniques to design solutions.
• Apply space planning techniques throughout the design process.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to solve progressively complex design problems.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to identify and define issues relevant to the design problem.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, schematic design, and design development.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to design original and creative solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, quantitative and qualitative programming, schematic design, and design development.
• Understand the importance of evaluating the relevance and reliability of information and research impacting design solutions.
• Recognize a range of problem identification and problem-solving methods.
• Recognize innovation and risk taking.
• Recognize methods of idea generation and design thinking.
• Effectively interpret and communicate data and research.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in oral communication.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in written communication.
• Effectively express ideas developed in the design process through visual media: ideation drawings and sketches.
• Effectively express project solutions using a variety of visual communication techniques and technologies appropriate to a range of purposes and audiences.
• Recognize evolving communication technologies.
• Competently select and apply luminaires and light sources.
• Understand color terminology.
• Understand color principles, theories, and systems.
• Understand color in relation to materials, textures, light, and form.
• Appropriately select and apply color to support design concepts.
• Appropriately select and apply color to multiple design functions.
• Appropriately use color solutions across different modes of design communication.
• Understand how furnishings, objects, materials, and finishes work together to support the design intent.
• Understand typical fabrication, installation methods, and maintenance requirements.
• Understand appropriate design or specification of products and materials in relation to project criteria and human and environmental wellbeing.
• Select and apply products and materials on the basis of their properties and performance criteria, including ergonomics, environmental attributes, life safety, and life cycle cost.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by vertical and horizontal systems of transport and circulation such as stairs, elevators, or escalators.
• Recognize the origins and intent of laws, codes, and standards.

IDSD 2860 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Residential Design Studio - ISBN: 9781563678417

Designing for Privacy + Related Needs - ISBN: 9781563673405