This guide is designed to help you locate resources in the Library about non-residential interiors such as retail and hotel environments. Related design considerations for these environments include environment and behavior, sustainability, accessible design, historical precedent and market trends.
Contract II will have a short-term intensive retail project and a long-term large-scale hotel lobby project.
The short-term project emphasizes the development of a corporate identity and the visual articulation of a “brand” for a retail client through the design of the interior of a store.
The long-term project is the complex space planning and design of a hotel lobby and involves the complete spatial and design
development of this environment.
Image from: “Fitbit Store Interior.” MSA Architecture + Design, MSA Architecture + Design, www.msasf.com/retail/#harvest. Accessed 10 Oct. 2017.
The core Required and Suggested texts for this class are all available in the NYSID Library on Reserve.
Required* and Suggested Textbooks (Print):
Binggeli, Corky. Interior Graphic Standards. Student Edition., 2nd ed, Wiley, 2011.
Karlen, Mark. Space Planning Basics. 3rd ed., Wiley, 2009.
* Piotrowski, Christine M., and Elizabeth A. Rogers. Designing Commercial Interiors. 2nd ed., Wiley, 2007.
* Piotrowski, Christine M., and Elizabeth A. Rogers. Designing Commercial Interiors. 2nd ed., Wiley, 2007. Ebook Central.
386 Contract Design II
Credit hours: 3
