Space Planning Basics

By Rob Fleming and Mark Karlen

Book Overview

Definitive guide to space planning, revised and updated with the latest interior design techniques, examination requirements, and sustainability considerations

Space Planning Basics shows how to approach space planning in a way that ensures all considerations are met, from preliminary floor plans, to client programming needs, to how factors such as building codes and environmental factors affect a spatial composition, to sustainability. With step-by-step methodology based on the author team's combined decades of design experience, this authoritative guide is the de facto reference on the subject.

The text includes current design approaches, building evaluation processes, structural guidelines to replicate the current professional process with a clear, highly practical, and comprehensive approach, and basic programming skills. Text, drawings, graphics, and practice exercises are included throughout to reinforce learning, and each chapter contains recommended resources for further reading and study.

Updates to this newly revised Fifth Edition of Space Planning Basics include: New content on preparing for stakeholder engagement and new drawings, diagrams, and matrices throughout An explanation of evidence-based design and the importance of health and wellbeing as well as the latest developments in sustainable design and certification requirements Updates on spatial relationships and building shells with new diagrams and coverage of universal design and human factors Updated resources for instructors on a companion website including new exercises, CAD files, and interactive graphs

Space Planning Basics delivers a complete, all-in-one introduction on the subject and is an essential principal resource for thousands of designers and students in space planning or interior design courses.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1394197543
• ISBN13: 9781394197545
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 304 Pages

Customer Reviews

Hands-on exercises and advice are perfect for intermediate-level students in construction management

Any college-level library appealing to architecture and interior design students - especially those involved in commercial buildings - needs SPACE PLANNING BASICS. The third updated edition includes coverage of stair design, a new section on such design, and programming examples for small and large commercial spaces (up to 4,000 square feet). Hands-on exercises and advice are perfect for intermediate-level students in construction management and interior design.

Great Book

I needed this book for required reading for my graduate studies. It is very basic beginner space planning ideas. The layout and explanations are easy and helpful. I already had a grasp on everything this book covers, but it's a good one to keep on the bookshelf for reference.

A thorough basic overview

The book is a very good reference to the importance of the space planning process with thoughtful exercises incorporated. It is best as a text book vs. trying to read and understand it on your own. You must understand that it's not a code book, so some of the dimensions, etc. should be verified based on your own location.

Space Planning Basics

great condition and arrived very early! book is like brand new!