I love sharing resources, hence my podcast and showcasing talents from all around. Recently, I have been getting pinged a lot asking to share my ‘CHS Tour of Dreams’ trimester final for Interior Design that I posted on Facebook ‘FCS Interior Design Educators’ group back in 2019. When I designed this project, it was truly a ‘build-as-you-go’ or, as my students said ‘the never ending project’. The engagement and creativity level was astounding, and I hope you and your students enjoy it as much as we did.
Please feel free to modify and adapt that will best serve your population of students. If you use this project, please tag me on social media @ConnectFCSed and use the hashtag #FCSpodcast.
Let’s continue leading student success in FCS!
Lesson Guide
Learning Target: Designers use plans to present ideas to clients and organize interior spaces. Students will produce a floor plan rendering, 3D model and Presentation board that is neat, accurate, and easy to understand and present to the public.
Success Criteria: I know I will be successful when I present my design concepts and display my housing model.
Materials needed:
- Graph paper
- Pencil
- Internet: Floorplanner.com- Sign into your account
- PowerPoint/Google Docs
Directions: For your final project, you are creating a 3D Home of your choice from the list below:
- Apartment
- Condo
- Modular/Mobile
- House- Single Story
The minimum requirement for this project includes: 2 bedroom, 2 bathrooms and 3 closets (Private Zone), 1 kitchen, Eating Nook/Dining room, Laundry room, 1 Living room (Public & Work Zone) and 4+ windows and 6+ doors.
Must Haves in your PowerPoint:
1. Include a title page: Your name, class, period, and title of project.
2. Digital Mood board for each room in your house- Inspiration (Students create multiple mood boards based on amount of rooms in house):
- Colors, Textures, Furniture, Lighting, Rugs, Carpet, Framed Art, Theme
3. Design your Interior Space using Floorplanner.com
- Go to this website: https://floorplanner.com/ and click Sign Up in right hand corner
- Sign up with your school email address and school password.
- Create an appropriate username you will remember. Do NOT sign up with Facebook!
- Click “I agree to the terms and conditions” & “Privacy Policy.”
- Click Sign Up at the bottom.
- Go to your school email account and press the green button “Activate” in the email it sent you. Now your account is ready to use!
- 4. After designing your home, include individual room views and whole house image in Ppt.
Open Sources for Review:
Graph paper, Pencil & Eraser: Draw out your 2-D elevation of the preferred floorplan using 1 of the 4 homes of your choice. Indicate where the doors will be and which way they will open. Indicate where the windows will be along with storage (closets). Show traffic pattern.
- Student Voice: Have 3 students evaluate your design for new ideas and perspective.
- Once you have acquired 3 student signatures, have your instructor sign off on your design, then you can start your 3-D design using Floorplanner.com
Building: After you have designed your 3D concept, you will now build your model based on your design and mood boards. You will use egg carton boxes/shoeboxes, cardboard, popsicle sticks, paint, textured paper towels, colored paper to build your home (materials provided).
- You may bring in doll house furniture and buy your own materials to use.
Marketing: Write up an Air B&B advertisementhighlightingall various principles of design throughout the home and underlining all elements of design in the house. Students will demonstrate understanding of universal design and traffic patterns through their writing.
- Students were given creative freedom to imagine and decide where their home was located and give readers a picturesque description.
- Site 3 sources (Air B&B or realtor postings for suggestions & ideas).
Presentation Board: Students will print out their Mood boards and glue to presentation board. Students will include their original 2D draft and 3D floorplanner design on the presentation board and include their Air B&B advertisement.
Instructor: Invite students Family, Advisory board, Realtors, Admin, Superintendent, School board, and professional Interior Designers to your ‘Open House’. Provide light snacks and refreshments just like if it were an ‘Open House’. See Advertisement (translate for inclusion)
Have Students and Guests walk around and evaluate work:
Standards:
- 11.2 Evaluate housing and design concepts and theories, including sustainability and universal design, in relation to available resources
- 11.4 Demonstrate design, construction document reading, and space planning skills required for the housing, interior design, and furnishings industries.
- 11.7 Apply design knowledge, skills processes, and theories and oral, written, and visual presentation skills to communicate design ideas.