Kilmer Rosemary - Construction drawings and details for interiors: basic skills

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Kilmer, W. Otie, author.

Construction drawings and details : basic skills / W. Otie Kilmer and Rosemary Kilmer. Third Edition.

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ISBN 978-1-118-94436-3 (ePub) ISBN 978-1-118-94437-0 (Adobe PDF) ISBN 978-1-118-94435-6 (pbk.) 1. Building Details Drawings. 2. Interior architecture. 3. Structural drawing. I. Kilmer, Rosemary, author. II. Title.

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The third edition of this book expands upon the second edition and includes new topics and examples. The authors again wish to thank the many students, teachers, and professionals who used the first and second editions, giving us valuable input as to what needed to be revised, expanded, or added.

When Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors: Basic Skills was first published twelve years ago, the intent was to provide a guide (handbook) for preparing construction drawings for the field of interior design. The book was designed for students in interior design programs as well as interns in offices that design interiors and are expected to produce construction drawings. At the time of the first edition, there were no books on the market that dealt with the process of preparing construction drawings specifically for interiors and all the information that needed to be conveyed, or that go in depth to explain how to organize this vast amount of information into a quality set of construction documents.

In this third edition of Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors, the subtitle Basic Skills has been dropped, as both basic and advanced skills are now covered. The entire processfrom beginning drawing/drafting skills through design development, and finally construction documentsis now presented. There are also several substantial changes and additions in this third edition. The most important addition is a new Part 2, The Design Process: Transition from Concepts to Construction Drawings. This part includes a new chapter (), Concept Development and the Design Process. We felt the process of learning basic skills of drawing/drafting and the subsequent steps to preparing construction documents needed to be further expanded. This area is the sequence interior designers go through when designing a new or remodeled building project. The process includes researching and analyzing the client's (user) needs, formulating concepts through schematic design, preliminary sketches/drawings, refining them in the design development stage, and finally completing final design presentations to the client for approval. Then interior designers are ready to prepare the construction documents and drawings.

Another addition is a new Part 4 on Structural, Mechanical, and Plumbing Systems. This part includes a new chapter () on Structural Systems for Buildings. As interior designers today are required to understand a vast amount of knowledge about construction assemblies, materials, finishes, lighting, mechanical and electrical systems, building codes, and structural systems, we felt we should make this book more comprehensive by adding this chapter. Interior designers must be able to communicate with other professionals in the building industry and must understand how a building is constructed from the ground up. This chapter includes information on structural walls and columns, specifically load-bearing and nonload-bearing ones. This chapter also explains what building foundations and footings are and why they are important for interior designers to understand as well as how foundation plans are drawn. Structural floor and roof systems are included with examples of both roof and floor framing plans and drafting standards for each. Roof plans are also discussed and illustrated.

Other significant changes include a discussion in under Issues Affecting How Interior Designers Communicate on user participation, globalization and expanded information on universal design, sustainability, and building information modeling (BIM).

Also, the original chapter Reflected Ceiling, Lighting, and Electrical Plans has been renamed Lighting: Reflected Ceiling and Electrical Plans to better reflect the contents of the chapter. This chapter has also been expanded to discuss the basics of lighting design and some general guidelines for determining the quality and quantity of light needed for specific spaces as well as the layout of the lighting system(s), and how to produce the reflected ceiling plan. It further expands on ceiling systems, sustainability, daylighting, and energy conservation.

The checklists at the end of each chapter have been expanded in scope. One hundred and seventeen new illustrations have been added or updated to more clearly show the specifics discussed in the writings.

The glossary has been expanded to include more terms used in the building industry. Appendices from the second edition have been updated to match current standards related to the preparation of construction drawings for interiors, plus a new appendix, Trigonometric Functions: Sines and Cosines of Angles, has been included to assist with some lighting calculations as is explained in .