DG 1110-3-122 Design Guide for Interiors - The Whole Building

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Design
Guide
for
Interiors
DG 1110-3-122
SEPTEMBER 1997
Foreword
The USACE Design Guide for Interiors provides a
comprehensive reference document to assist USAC E
designers; Major Army Commands; Directorates of
Public Works; facility users; and contract architectural,
engineering, and interior design firms in the development
of excellent interiors. It complements other criteria such
as Architectural and Engineering Instructions, Design
Criteria, DA Standard Designs, Engineering Regulations
(ER), and selection resources, and is applicable to new
construction, renovation, and maintenance and repair of
building interiors.
This design guide was prepared by the U.S. Army
Engineer District, Omaha, Technical Center of Expertise
for Interior Design, utilizing a contract with Leo A. Daly
Planning/Architecture/Engineering/Interiors , Omaha,
Nebraska.
Following initial distribution, copies of this document
will be available from the USACE Publications Depot,
2803 52nd Avenue, Hyattsville, Maryland 20781;
telephone number 301-394-0081. This document
supersedes the Design Guide for Interiors ,
December 1982.
We will continue to work to improve interior design
criteria and the process for procuring interior finishes and
furnishings. This design guide is a living document and
users are requested to address recommendations for
changes and improvements, with their rationale for
proposed changes, to HQUSACE, ATTN: CEMP-EA,
Washington, DC 20314-1000.
For The Director Of Military Programs
Kisuk Cheung, P.E.
Chief, Engineering Division
Directorate of Military Programs
C o n t e n t s
Guide to Excellent Interiors
Chapter
Introduction
Chapter
Human Behavior and the Interior Environment
Chapter
Light and Color
Chapter
Design Basics
Chapter
Building Systems and Components
Chapter
Materials
Chapter
Furnishings
Appendix A: Army Interior Design Process
Appendix B: Planning for Administrative
Work Environments
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Guide
to
Excellent
Interiors
Guide to Excellent Interiors
Value of Interior Design
We all expect a facility to be functional and maintainable.
Achieving coordination of the building interior and
furnishings, meeting human ergonomic and psychological
needs, and providing optimum aesthetic effect are
identifiable and attainable goals for every interior design
project.
Lobby, Gunter AFB People's reactions to interior environments is critical to the
success of every facility type. These reactions were first
identified in healthcare facilities, where color, texture,
lighting, furnishings, and finishes all contribute to creating
an environment which supports patient recovery and well-
being.
Training, maintenance, laboratories, logistic support,
medical, administrative, residential, morale, welfare and
recreation facilities all have unique functional and aesthetic
Dining, Reynolds Army Hospital requirements. When these requirements are satisfied,
workers, residents, and customers react positively, take
pride in their contributions and in the facility, and perform
to their maximum potential.
Why should you insist on comprehensive interior design in
your facilities?
(cid:4) To improve the morale and increase the productivity of
the people in your facility.
(cid:4) To use your space and financial resources in the most
Shop, Mountain Home AFB
cost effective manner.
(cid:4) To assure the health, safety and welfare of facility
occupants.
(cid:4) To project a professional image of your organization.
(cid:4) To provide appropriate and maintainable building
materials, finishes, furniture, and furnishings.
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Guide to Excellent Interiors i
Team Roles and the Design Process
To create high quality interior environments requires that
the user, installation maintenance staff, commands,
programmers, designers, engineers, construction workers,
and suppliers work together toward clearly defined
statements of design excellence.
(cid:4)(cid:4) Programming is the first step in this process.
Atrium, Minot AFB
Programming involves defining the project requirements
and providing the financial resources to support them. This
is where the user first forms a concept of what is needed.
(cid:4)(cid:4) At concept development designers become fully
involved in translating the user's operational and
maintenance concepts into a built form. Designers work
with the user to understand the reasons behind
requirements and to give them form in terms of size, shape,
and space layout.
Office, Maxwell AFB
Conceptual Plan Working Drawings
Program Bubble Diagram
(cid:4)(cid:4) As the design is developed into contract documents
and procurement information, the designer works with
the user to specify requirements for construction, furniture,
finishes, and furnishings. The documents created are the
master plan for bringing the project to reality. They give
the building, its interior spaces, furniture, and furnishings a
coordinated form and aesthetic expression.
Tele-Conferencing
Wright-Patterson AFB
Guide to Excellent Interiors ii
(cid:4) Execution involves guiding the work of those who
construct the building and providing the furniture and
furnishings. Attention to detail during building construc-
tion, as well as during procurement and installation of
furnishings, is critical to the achievement of excellence.
Creating stimulating, comfortable, and appropriate
environments for living and working is an achievable goal
when the user and the design and construction team work
Library, Robins AFB together as partners.
Ensuring Excellence
The photographs in this guide represent the successful
partnership between users, installation managers, designers,
construction workers, and suppliers to bring about
excellence in interior design. The photographs represent a
broad range of facility types, locations, and design,
Fitness Center, Redstone Arsenal
construction, and furnishing techniques.
In every case, an involved user initially defined the concept
in terms of functional requirements and financial resources
and demanded excellence pivotal to the success of these
projects. Proper programming ensures the allocation of
adequate military construction funds for building, and
adequate maintenance funds to provide for furniture and
furnishings. Superior programming results from having a
clear vision of what the project is to be. Designers can be
Auditorium, USMA Westpoint of assistance in defining the needs but the vision starts with
the user.
Superior programming enables excellence in design and
construction. Excellence in design and construction results
in facilities which optimize functional and aesthetic
requirements and enable people to perform to their
maximum potential.
Child Development Center
Wright-Patterson AFB
Guide to Excellent Interiors iii
Clinic Waiting, Minot AFB
Clinic Waiting, Auditorium, Gunter AFB
Madigan Army Medical Center
Atrium, Ft. McNair
Visitor Center, Tenn-Tom
Waterway
Snack Shop, Gunter AFB
Guide to Excellent Interiors iv
PHOTOCREDITS
Cover
1. Lobby,SeniorNCOAcademy.GunterAFB,AL.
p.i
1. Lobby,SeniorNCOAcademy.GunterAFB,AL.
2. Dining,ReynoldsArmyHospital.FortSill,OK.
3. AircraftEngineTestShop.MountainHomeAFB,ID.
4. BirthingRoom,ReynoldsArmyHospital.FortSill,OK.
p.ii
1. Atrium,CompositeMedicalFacility.MinotAFB,ND.
2. WingCommander'sOffice,ConsolidatedSupportComplex.
MaxwellAFB,AL.
3. TeleconferencingCenter,StewartHall,AquisitionManagement
Complex. Wright-PattersonAFB,OH.
p.iii
1. Library,PersonnelServicesCenter.RobinsAFB,GA.
2. FitnessCenter,JohnJ.SparkmanCenterforMissi leExcellence.
RedstoneArsenal,AL.
3. Auditorium,CullumHall.U.S.ArmyMilitaryAcademy,West
Point,NY.
4.ChildCareDevelopmentCenter,LogisticsCommand.Wright-
PattersonAFB,OH.
p.iv
1. ClinicWaiting,CompositeMedicalFacility.MinotAFB,ND.
2. MedicalMall,MadiganArmyMedicalCenter.Ft.Lewis,WA.
3. Auditorium,SeniorNCOAcademy.GunterAFB,AL.
4. SnackBar,SeniorNCOAcademy.GunterAFB,AL.
5. Atrium,MarshallHall,NationalDefenseUniversity.Fort
McNair,DC.
6. VisitorCenter,Tenn-TomWaterway.AlicevilleLake,AL.
DG1110-3-122
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Introduction
Applicability of the Design Guide for Interiors 1.1
Organization of the Design Guide for Interiors 1.3