Exam Questions With Correct Answers
3 Characteristics to an excellent design - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. It functions
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well and serves the needs of its users
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2. it is made of carefull selected quality components and appropriate materials.
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3. it is aesthetically pleasing.
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Space Planning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Effectively utilizing the overall area that a
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project encompasses.
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Space Planner/Residential Interior Designer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-This person's
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role is to be the liaison between the architecture and function of the designed
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space.
Relative Size - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-how big something is in comparison to
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something else. |
Absolute Size - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-refers to the literal dimension of a space or
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object.
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Scale - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-relates to size in that someone may say "This is a
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large scale room." | |
,Rooms are often 'drawn to scale; on graph paper or blue prints using a scale of -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1/4"=1 foot | |
Space - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The area in which shapes and forms exist, is most
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frequently a room defined by the planes of walls, floor and ceiling.
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Positive Space - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Solids or forms
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Negative Space - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The area that surrounds the solids or
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forms
Proportion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Eye-pleasing relationship between various
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parts and the whole. (Ex. Queen Anne or Chippendale chairs are well-proportion
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because the seat, legs and back relate well to eachother).
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The Greeks - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Discovered that ratios that best serve our
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human needs lie between 1:1 and 2:1.
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Pi: the most eye pleasing and useful ratio - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1:1.618
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Leonardo da Vinci - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Developed a system of proportions
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using the human figure with outstretched arms and spread legs, with arms and
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legs touching a circle inscribed in a square.
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Anthropometry - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the scientific study of the measurements | | | | | | | |
and proportions of the human body.
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,Ergonomics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The study of workplace equipment design or
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how to arrange and design devices, machines, or work space so that people and
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things interact safely and most efficiently.
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Textures - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The actual and perceived details on a surface
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and describe the relative roughness or smoothness of a surface, the hardness and
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softness as well.
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The Golden Ratio - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Seemingly magical relationship with
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the
Fibonacci Series turn out to relate directly to
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natural phenomena such as the clockwise and
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anticlockwise spirals on the surface of | | | | |
pinecones and pineapples and in the centers
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of daisies.
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Radial balance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Is based on a circle with elements
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arranged
around a single point.
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Symmetrical - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The "Mirror" effect, or when one object is
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reflected across a plane to create another instance of itself.
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Symmetrical Balance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Often associated with formal
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rooms or traditional interiors. Consider this when choosing objects for a mantle.
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, Asymetrical balance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-distribution achieved by arranging
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non-identical elements on both sides of an imaginary center line on the screen.
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(Associated with contemporary, casual, or country interiors)
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Rhythm - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-involves the repetition of elements in space. Can
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provide a theme for a room that the eye enjoys following. (Ex: Stadium Seats can
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create rhythm and balance)
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Emphasis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the focal point of a space or object. (Ex.
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fireplace or large window)
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Structural Patterns - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Those usually created by architectural
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members or decorative construction techniques and are three-dimensional.
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Applied Pattern - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Typically a decorative design used on a
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flat surface and is almost always based on the repetition of smaller design motifs.
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Ornamentation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Visual extras added to enrich a design.
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Normal Traffic Pattern - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-24"-30", but 36" or more is best.
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Comfortable range of distance for conversation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-4 and 10
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feet
Patterns - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Create perceived textures.
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