Technical Drafting and Mental Visualization in Interior Architecture Education

Abstract

We explored how beginning-level interior architecture students develop skills to create mental visualizations of three-dimensional objects and environments, how they develop their technical drawing skills, and whether or not physical and computer generated models aid this design process. We used interviews and observations to collect data. The findings provide an insight on what kind of difficulties students experience during their learning process and how they overcome those difficulties. The results of the study indicate that the students' lack of skills in technical drawing and in creating 2D and 3D mental visualizations negatively influenced their design process. Using the existing body of literature, we discussed the findings and suggested teaching strategies to improve the learning process for the beginning-level interior architecture students. The findings of this study allowed us to have a better understanding of the student design and learning process.We explored how beginning-level interior architecture students develop skills to create mental visualizations of three-dimensional objects and environments, how they develop their technical drawing skills, and whether or not physical and computer generated models aid this design process. We used interviews and observations to collect data. The findings provide an insight on what kind of difficulties students experience during their learning process and how they overcome those difficulties. The results of the study indicate that the students' lack of skills in technical drawing and in creating 2D and 3D mental visualizations negatively influenced their design process. Using the existing body of literature, we discussed the findings and suggested teaching strategies to improve the learning process for the beginning-level interior architecture students. The findings of this study allowed us to have a better understanding of the student design and learning process.

Understanding Spatial Ability in Interior Design Education: 2D–to–3D Visualization Proficiency as a Predictor of Design Performance

“…Third, design educators should nurture students’ visualization capacity for their success in education in a way that the students’ development of spatial ability also enhances design performance. Arslan and Dazkir () found that when beginning interior architecture students experience difficulties in 2D and 3D mental visualization, many of them simply copy others’ drawings without fully grasping the visualization concept; such experiences negatively influence their design process. Potter and Van der Merwe () also found that students with low spatial ability tended to fail their graphic communication course without receiving appropriate intervention perhaps because of the disconnect between technical communication courses and creative design courses.…”

The Effect of Computer-Aided 3d Modeling Activities on Pre-Service Teachers’ Spatial Abilities and Attitudes Towards 3d Modeling

“…ISSN 1648-3898 /Print/ ISSN 2538-7138 /Online/ Spatial ability is an important factor that can affect success in the fields of mathematics and geometry (Battista, 1990;Bulut & Köroğlu, 2000;Guay & McDaniel, 1977;Tartre, 1990;Ünlü & Ertekin, 2017), engineering (Sorby, 1999;Sorby & Baartmans, 2000;Yue, 2008), chemistry (Bodner & Guay, 1997;Carter, Larussa, & Bodner, 1987;Pribyl & Bodner, 1987;Wu & Shah, 2004), physics (Delialioğlu & Aşkar, 1999;Kozhevnikov, Motes, & Hegarty, 2007), geology (Kali & Orion, 1996;Uttal & Cohen, 2012), architecture (Arslan & Dazkir, 2017), health, medicine and dentistry (Hegarty, Keehner, Khooshabeh, & Montello, 2009;Nguyen, Mulla, Nelson, & Wilson, 2014). Spatial ability which can affect success in various fields and can lead to significant individual differences in learning environments is often neglected in educational and instructional settings (Lubinski, 2010).…”

Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) [Volume 1]

“…This feature can be helpful for lectures in subjects such as architecture. Here, a building model can be presented to students virtually so that they can understand the building structure more easily and directly (Arslan and Dazkir, 2017). The availability of the features of the various online platforms is summarized in Table 1.…”