INTERIOR DESIGN

TOPIC: FLOOR AND STAIRCASE

SUBMITTED BY: ARPIT WAKODE

PRAJWAL SHINGANE
NISHCHAY GAWAI
ABRAR ALTAMASH
MOHAMMAD SAIF
ABDUL IMRAN
ASHUTOSH MANWAR
 INTRODUCTION TO FLOORS

• A HORIZONTAL PLANE PROVIDING A FIRM DATUM,A RESTING PLACE

FOR ALL OBJECTS.
• ORIGINATED FROM AN OLD HIGH GERMAN WORD FLUOR MEANING
MEADOW REFERS TO BOTH PLANE AND GROUND.
• THE LATIN EQUIVALENT PLANUS REFERS TO IT AS LEVELS.
• THE GREEK WORD PLANASTHAI MEANS TO WANDER.
• IT ASSUMES CONNOTATIONS TO FIRMNESS ,STABILITY AND
REPOSE.
• IT ESSENTIALLY DELINIATS TERRITORY.
 TYPOLOGICAL VARIATION

TYPOLOGY WITH RESPECT TO FORM

UNMODULATED FLOORS :
▪ FLAT ,LEVEL FLOORS WITH NO CHANGE OR MODULATION FROM A A SINGLE DATUM LINE
SINGLE DATUM.

MODULATED FLOORS
▪ THE FLOORS TAKE ON DIFFERENT FORMS, UNDULATING,SLOPED OR
ROUGH WITH A VARIAATION OF LINE

A DATUM LINE WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS

 TYPOLOGICAL VARIATION
TYPOLOGY WITH RESPECT TO MATERIAL TREATMENT
NATURAL:
▪ FLOORS WITH VEGETATION COVER ,SOIL,NATURAL STONE ,
WATER STONE ETC.

MAN MADE:
▪ ARTICULATION, EXPRESSION AND DESIGN INERVENTION TO
ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE OF FLOORS
 FLOORS AS ELEMENT

FLOOR FOR DEFINITION OF SPACE:

• A PERCIPTBLE CHANGE IN THE FLOORING STRONGLY DELINEATES AND
DEMARCATES A DIFFERENCE IN THE ZONE .
• APART FROM FLOOR FINISH EVEN ITS MODULATION AS ELEVATIONS
AND DEPRESSIONS HELP IN CREATING SUB SPACES.
• ACCESSSORIES SUCH AS RUGS ,DHURRIES, CARPETS, ETC WHEN
PLACED BECOME AN EXTENSION.
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FLOOR AS MOVEMENT GUIDE:

• THE FLOOR BEING THE DATUM UPON WHICH ALL MOVEMENT TAKES
PLACE
• FLOOR PATTERN ARE OFTEN USED TO PUNCTUATE PAUSES,
EMPASIZE MOVEMENT DIRECTION .
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FLOOR TO EXPRESS THRESHOLD :

• FLOOR AS PLATFORM OR PLINTH , UPON THE GROUND SURFACE ,

DEFINES SPACES.
• THE THRESHOLD IS ALSO SOMETIMES HINTED AT THROUGH
RAISING THE FLOOR PLANE BY A SMALL INTERVAL AND AGAIN
LOVERING IT.
• THE ACT OF CROSSING THIS RAISED LEVEL INDUCES A SENSE OF
CROSSOVER BETWEEN SPACES .
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FLOORS FOR COMMUNICATION :

• AS THE HORIZONTAL BASE PLANES ,FLOORS ARE WALKED OVER

AND THIS HORIZONTALITY MAKES THEM PRAGMATIC.
• THUS , FLOORS CAN EFFECTIVELY COMMUICATE META PHYSICAL
MESSAGES WHILE RETAINING ITS PHYSICAL NATURE .
• RANGOLI DONE BY WOMEN IN INDIA RE COMMONLY EXERCISED
FORMS OF FLOOR RENDERINGS FOR AUSPICIOUS PURPOSES.
INTRODUCTION TO STAIRS

• STAIRS ARE VERTICAL CIRCULATION ELEMENTS , USED TO

EFFECT MOVEMENT BETWEEN TWO HORIZONTAL PLANES.
• STAIRS MAKE EASY THE TRANSITION OF LARGE VERTICAL
DISTANCE BY BREAKING IT UP INTO SERIES OF SMALLER
VERTICAL PIECES.
• THE ORIGIN OF THE TERM LIES IN OLD ENGLISH AND OLD
HIGH GERMAN WORD STIGAN MEANING TO RISE.
• THE SANSKRIT COUNTER PART OF STEP IS PADASATH WHILE
THAT OF STAIR IS SOPANA PAD .
• STAIRS BUILT BETWEEN PARALLEL WALLS LIBERATED THE
STEPS FROM APPARENT DEPEDENCE ON THE FLOOR .
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STAIRS AS PHYSICAL LINK:

• STAIRS HAS EVOLVED BUT ESSENTIALLY STILL RETAINS ITS PRIMITIVE FUNCTION OF
TRANSLOCATION FROM ONE HORIZONTAL PLANE TO ANOTHER PLANE.
• IN MULTI STOREYED BUILDINGS , THE STAIR ACTS AS THE PRIRY CIRCULATION LINK
BETWEEN THE VARIOUS FLOORS.
• IN MODERN BUILDINGS,STAIRWELLS DOUBLE UP AS ASERVICE SHAFT REACHING ALL
FLOORS.
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STAIRS AS MOVEMENT GUIDE :

• IT ASSUMES NODALITY AS THE CONFLUENCE OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL

MOVEMENTS.
• THE LOCATION OF THE STAIR BY ITSELF BECOMES VISUAL AS WELLAS PHYSICAL PAUSE
POINT TO ATTRACT MOVEMENT TOWARDS IT .
• THE STAIR FORM AND PROFILE CAN FURTHER ATTRACT MOVEMNT OVER IT TOWARDS
NEXT DESTINATION OR ALSO ADJACENT TO IT BY BECOMING A BACKDROP.
 STAIRS AS ELEMENT

STEP AS THRESHOLD:

• AS BUILDINGS ARE RAISED ON THE PLINTH ,STEPS FROM THE NATURAL LINK TO
NEGOTIATE THESE LEVEL LEVEL DIFFERENCES .
• THIS PROVIDE THE FIRST MOST IMPORTANT TRANSITION FROM OUTDORS TO WITHIN
• THUS ,STEPS BECOME A THRESHOLD FOR BOTH LINKING AS WWEL AS DISSOCIATING
TWO REALMS.
 STAIRS AS ELEMENT

STEPS AS PEDSTAL:
• STEPS AS AN ELEMENT TO NEGOTIATE THE PLINTH BECOMES THE MOST OBIVOUS
FEATURE OF THE BUILDING.
• THIS IS OFTEN PRONOUNCED IN THE FAÇADE AS AN INVITATION TO ACCESS THE
BUILDINGS .
• THE SERIES OF STEPS NEGOTIATES THE PLINTH, A PEDESTAL UPON WHICH THE
BUILDING RESTS TO REACH UP TO THE BUILDING FROM THE BASE.
TYPES OF STAIRCASE