Spatial Design: Create Interior Spaces That Tell A Story
Telling Stories through Your Space
A course by Office S&M , Architecture Practice
About the video: Telling Stories through Your Space
Overview
“In this lesson, the written and spatial brief are used to develop a spatial narrative, which you will use to design your space through drawing and experimentation.”
In this video lesson Office S&M addresses the topic: Telling Stories through Your Space, which is part of the Domestika online course: Spatial Design: Create Interior Spaces That Tell A Story. Explore color, materials, furniture, and lighting to design joyful spaces inspired by a personal narrative.
Partial transcription of the video
“Telling Stories through Your Space In this lesson, we'll give you the tools to tell a story through space. We'll go through some of the issues you identified in the previous lesson, in your spatial brief. At this stage, you should have your spatial brief in front of you. We'll start designing and find solutions to some problems you've identified in the spatial brief. In the early versions, we thought there were too many separate spaces, we wanted to join them to make more accessible spaces. That drove the design so we then started to streamline it and use storage to fill in the gaps but all...”
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Course summary for: Spatial Design: Create Interior Spaces That Tell A Story
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Category
Architecture & Spaces -
Software
Adobe InDesign -
Areas
Interior Architecture, Interior Decoration, Interior Design, Spatial Design

Office S&M
A course by Office S&M
Office S&M is an award-winning architecture practice in London. Its founders are architects Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen, who met while studying for their masters at UCL. They established Office S&M in 2013 following competition wins for small London-based projects, while both working full-time jobs. Office S&M’s ethos is to ‘elevate the everyday’ by creating joyful and unexpected spaces. They have a diverse portfolio, creating bespoke designs for both public and private clients, from high-street regeneration to individual homes.
Now a team of five, Office S&M have received recognition for their innovative designs that experiment with materials, color, and narrative to create unique spaces full of drama. They have won numerous awards, including Building Design’s Young Architect of the Year, Architects’ Journal’s 40 Under 40, and Best Use of Materials at the New London Architecture Don’t Move, Improve! Awards. Their work has also featured in publications including The Guardian, and on the BBC.
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