Proposed Strategy in Teaching Design Fundamentals for Understanding the Relationship between Idea and Idea’s Projection

Abstract

During foundation stages, interior design students are faced difficulties in mental perception of the relationship between matching two-dimensional drawings and expressive design ideas, especially when designing compositions and building relationships between design elements. The purpose of this study is to determine what is the teaching strategy that enables students to perceive relations between ideas of design and their foundations of projection during the foundation stage? The researcher has come up with basic steps enabling students to project their design’s ideas easily. Each stage of these stages is dependent on self-assessment criteria, certified as a reference, to be assigned to students and allow them to link the theoretical findings with practical work. The purpose of this study is to determine what is the teaching strategy that enables students to perceive relations between ideas of design and their foundations of projection during the foundation stage? The researcher has come up with three basic steps enabling students to project their design’s ideas easily, and gradually perceives the concept of building relationships between the design’s idea and foundations of their projections in the foundation stage. These steps are represented in the stage of sketching the composition prior to their embodiment (cutting paper template), the stage of alternate adjustment of embodiment and sketching, and finally the stage of sketching composition after their embodiment.