Professional Practice for Interior Designers. Christine M. Piotrowski

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СКАЧАТЬ Outpatient laboratories and radiological treatment facilities Psychiatric facilities Rehabilitation facilities Medical laboratories Veterinary clinics Hospitality and recreation Hotel, motels, and resorts Restaurants, coffee shops, etc. Commercial kitchens Recreational facilities Health clubs and spas Country clubs National and state park facilities Amusement park facilities Sports complexes Auditoriums and theaters Museums Convention centers Casinos Set design: movies and television Retail facilities/merchandising Malls and shopping centers Department stores Specialized retail stores Gift shops in hotels, airports, and other facilities Store visual merchandising Displays for trade shows Showrooms Galleries Boutiques Educational and institutional facilities Colleges, universities, and community colleges Secondary and elementary schools Day‐care centers and nursery schools Private schools Churches and other religious facilities Government offices (federal, state, and local) Courthouses and courtrooms Prisons Industrial facilities Corporate offices Manufacturing facilities Training facilities Employee service areas, such as lunchrooms and fitness centers Transportation Airports, bus terminals, train depots, etc. Tour ship design Custom and commercial airplane interiors Boats and ships Recreational vehicles Adaptive use Restoration of historic commercial sites Commercial products design

      It is also important to realize that the client who has contracted with the designer is often only one of the users/stakeholders that must be satisfied. The satisfaction of employees and the public or the clientele of the business directly affects the success of the design and future business. Not understanding and designing in relationship to this issue can result in a nice‐looking interior for an unhappy client.

      Facility Planners

      Many corporations and institutional organizations realize the economic benefit of having their own planning and design team. Facility planners are part of the facility management department, which is responsible for the physical plant (the building and its systems). The facility management department ensures that everything involved in the business—building, equipment, and people—is organized and arranged to best function together to meet the management's goals.

Designers might work as facility planners or be hired by the corporation to work with in‐house facility planners. Specialized degrees in facility planning are available, but many facility planners are interior designers or architects.

      The job of facility manager, sometimes in the same department as a facility planner, is a more specialized career and requires additional training in psychology, physical plant management, and engineering.

      Lighting Designers

      Although all designers learn something about lighting concepts and lighting design as part of their curriculum, lighting interiors to create special environments involves skills and experience that the average interior designer does not have. Designers can specialize in lighting design, continually learning about new products but also about all the intricacies of lighting science and design application. There are firms that specialize in providing consulting to other designers, as well as to clients, in the lighting design of all types of spaces, both residential and commercial in context.

      Sales Representatives

      Sales representatives, also called sales reps, may work in retail furniture and furnishings stores and dealerships, in manufacturers' showrooms, and as outside sales reps for manufacturers. Sales reps in retail stores might be referred to as sales associates. A sales associate is not always an interior designer, but rather someone who is skilled in sales techniques. Many retail stores and office furnishings dealers hire interior designers to be sales associates. Additional information on sales representatives and dealers is provided in Chapter 11.

      Barrier‐Free or Universal Design

      A career option for some designers experienced with barrier‐free design concepts is consulting to businesses to help them comply with standards—either before or after a lawsuit is filed. For example, the prime designer might not be knowledgeable about current barrier‐free requirements; in this instance, that firm may engage a consulting designer to review plans for new or remodeled facilities to be sure that the plans will meet the legal requirements prior to submittal for building permits.

      Sustainable Design

      Sustainable design has become far more common as a specialty in the last several СКАЧАТЬ