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Architect or designer?

Gretta van Riel
professor of architecture

The hour has come when the long-awaited real estate is in your hands and it’s time to make repairs. Where do you start? You can go to a specialty store and pick up cute wallpapers. You can consult with knowledgeable friends. You can look for ideas in magazines or on the Internet.

All these actions are necessary and important. They will even bring some results if you need to refresh your grandmother’s inherited apartment.

But if you want radical changes, something interesting, extraordinary. If you want to change the composition of the premises, make a redevelopment. If you have become the proud owner of a new home and your property looks like an empty reinforced concrete cube with load-bearing columns inside, then you need the help of a professional.

For you, the view of empty, completely uninhabited rooms is a reason to think about where to put the bed and hang the chandelier, but for the designer this space is like a blank canvas for the artist, on which you can depict everything. The designer is a treasure trove of amazing ideas. The designer strives to make your space unique and inimitable. But on the other hand, abstract reasoning that it would be nice to move the bath to the bedroom, make a niche in the living room, and equip an office in the place of the kitchen, sound beautiful, but are of little use without the right approach to business.

To get the desired result, and not just beautiful pictures, you need the services of a professional who is both an engineer and an artist, knows all the pitfalls of construction and at the same time has a delicate aesthetic taste and creativity. An architect is such a professional. It is often said that an architect can work as a designer, but a designer can never be an architect. This is true. A designer is akin to a decorator. His services are invaluable when there are no complex technological solutions in the design of the premises. If you want to do more than just hang curtains and paint walls, you need an architect.

The result of working with an architect will be the embodiment of your desires in life. A good architect “guides” your object from the first meeting with you until the object is handed over to you. For the transfer of the object to be successful, before the start of construction work, you need to develop a design project for your interior. What is a design project and why is it needed, see our next article.

 




 

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