Who are Interior Architects and What Do They Do?

20/04/2023

ASPEN

Interior designer or architect? These two professions can still be easily confused today. Some even consider the two to be the same. However, there are significant differences between architecture and interior architecture in terms of job descriptions, education systems, and fields of study. Today, we will focus on interior architects, answering questions such as who they are, why they are important, and what jobs they handle. If you're ready, let's get started!

Who are Interior Architects?

Interior designers are professionals who fulfill a space's aesthetic and functional requirements by selecting furniture, ensuring color harmony, arranging lighting, and incorporating other design elements. They create designs for optimal usage of homes, offices, restaurants, and other interior spaces. Meanwhile, interior architects consider their clients' wishes and needs when creating the space design.

Why Are Interior Architects Important?

Interior designers enhance the quality of living spaces and create environments that make people's daily lives more enjoyable. The importance of home interior design has become even more pronounced recently, as we spend more time at home, particularly after the pandemic. Therefore, interior architects should offer efficient, functional, and aesthetic solutions for home design. The right choice of color, furniture arrangement, lighting, decoration styles, and other design elements are crucial in creating an interior that positively affects our mood and health. Interior architects are professionals who take these factors into account to create spaces that will enhance human health.

The interior design of a restaurant, store or office is a factor that directly affects the customer experience. Therefore, interior architects must make the right design decisions to increase business efficiency and attract customer attention. Choosing the right materials for these design decisions is also important. ASPEN Interior Solutions has a modern and wide product range divided into four main categories. Its latest technological products in the fields of suspended ceilings, partition walls, floors, and LED lighting make the work of interior architects easier.

What is the Job Description of Interior Architects?

Interior architects, who need to keep up with sectoral developments and work collaboratively with people from various disciplines, participate in many different stages of an interior space project, from the design process to the delivery process. They carefully choose furniture and decorations that best complement the interior design.

Additionally, an interior designer is responsible for a variety of tasks, including creating the lighting plan, making decisions about flooring and wall coverings, detailing their designs on floor plans using computer-aided programs, creating a timeline for the project, calculating material and labor costs, and creating the project budget for the interior project.

What is the Difference Between Interior Designers and Architects?

Interior designers and architects are both professionals who actively participate in the design, planning, and implementation of buildings. However, they have different skills and responsibilities. Interior designers and architects receive different education and graduate from different departments. Architects complete the Faculty of Architecture, while interior designers complete the Faculty of Interior Architecture.

While interior architects are responsible for the interior design and comfort of a space, architects are primarily responsible for the structural design and technical knowledge of a building. In addition to design skills, architects are expected to have analytical skills, while interior architects are expected to specialize more in aesthetic skills. As a result, both professions are specialists in different parts of the interconnected structure works.

Interior architects play an important role in designing our living spaces by incorporating many different disciplines when making interior arrangements. As ASPEN, we add value to interior designs with our unique designs and quality product diversity. We work in close collaboration with interior architects to create suspended ceilings (made of wood/metal), partition walls, raised floors, and LED lighting products for building interiors. We closely follow developments in the sector and create new content every week.

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