Author

Ram Gopal Tandukar

Most of the time architects create lovely buildings & spaces. However, most don’t consider how these spaces will be furnished. As a result, it causes many problems when you start making the interior design & fit out work. It is time now to make the furniture layout of your plans before you finalize the drawings. Coordinating with the interior designers in advance will save cost & time.

It is not interior only but an architect must coordinate with every aspect of building and environment viz. Climatology, Engineering services like electrical, mechanical, sanitation, structural aspects, materials, specifications, landscape, socio-cultural aspects etc. etc. For each of the aspect there is a specialized person, who can design them more efficiently and more correctly. So, an architect must coordinate all ‘while’ designing a building to evolve the optimum design. Doing this after design, God knows what is that if these aspects are not coordinated during design, it would result into super imposition and not an integrated design. ARCHITECTURE IS A TEAMWORK.

The problem we always have is the lack of communication between Architects & interior designers. Architects think that they do not need the interior designers to tell them where to consider power sockets for table lamps (as what Deborah said), or to make the lighting layout, flooring layout, AC layout and ceiling layout for them. We always end up with nice marble pattern done by the architect covered by our furniture! Or AC supply grill right above the bed! Or, nice table lamps where we don’t have power sockets for! Or TV plug next to the window that will be covered by our curtains!!! Not to mention the nightmare of the sanitary wares work where they fix all the pipes before specifying the sanitary wares & fittings of the bathrooms! We always have such problems with the Architects. They should educate their clients and advise them to hire the interior designer in advance to coordinate all these issues before they start the construction