DSSM DesignTriangle Comment - Room Design I.T. Software Tools App

In the development of any design program, three main parts must be considered:

the enclosure
the functional areas
the decorative decor

Each of these planning parts is a living entity with interests and objectives, and we can call them the DSSM Design Triangle collectively.

In the context of the DSSM Triangle, the job of planning is to provide the best interior design program to match client needs to the house style and neighborhood.

At the same time, the Design Decorator/Contractor must ensure that the strategy correctly matches the house’s strengths with the needs of a clearly defined neighborhood while always following the needs of the client and the family.

Good matching of the requirements and objectives of the three parties involved is required for a good lasting relationship; without it, the project’s long-term viability may be at risk.

But such matching is relative. If the DSSM Triangle can provide a better match, the home will be at an advantage over time.

If the Design Decorator/Contractor’s approach to the client’s home is identical to that of the neighborhood, the client will be unable to distinguish between their respective neighborhood houses.

The result could not be the best, which may bring short-term benefits to the client but will hurt the resale value and its neighborhood.

A successful design program ensures a better or stronger matching of housing design strengths to the client’s needs provided by the house’s current status.

In terms of these three essential DSSM Design Triangle parts:

A design program is defined as a way in which a house endeavors to differentiate itself positively from the neighborhood,
This program uses its relative design method strengths to satisfy the client’s needs better.

Design Spread Sheet parts.

For a large residence of many different functional areas for many other age groups, there is more than one DSSM Triangle to be dealt with and more than one design program to be developed.

The question is, how many?

At what level in residence does it make sense to try to develop a design program?

To develop and implement an effective design program, a residential home must have complete freedom of operation using each of the three essential parts.

Concerning clients, it must be able to address the complete house, not just some areas.

If a DSSM planning program is defined too narrowly, not developing the entire housing unit, it may lack the impact to take a total market design and value.

This program will be a handicap if all the functional areas in the home’s perspective can not be developed within the client’s fundamental needs.

To be able to respond with maximum benefits to the total needs of a customer, the DSSM program needs, in terms of the whole house itself, to encompass all the Critical Issues:

Floor Plan
Design Methods
Basic Design Styles

These functions might range from the kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, and living room to the entry, hallways, and stairway.

This benefit is that the DSSM Design program must share specific resources for one space with other functional areas and rooms.

It means that a good DSSM program must address the functional aspects of the client’s needs and desires.

A housing unit may not have every key function area connected to every space.

Still, in DSSM planning, one needs to explore every possibility of utilizing the residential structure’s relative strengths to differentiate it from the neighborhood.

Such differentiation comes only from differences in functional area’s strength, by each space or combination of available rooms.

A broad perspective is needed.

In addition to surveying all the house’s critical functions, the Design Decorator/Contractor must be able to look at the home in its totality, including:

Critical Issues
Guide Lines Issues
Directional Solutions
Project Game changers
Design Items

The Design Decorator/Contractor must also be able to put themself mentally in place of homeowners in the neighborhood and thus ferret out the critical perceptions and assumptions on which the homeowner’s property is based.

DSSM Design Triangles, then, are best established at a level where they can freely address:

All key structural enclosed areas that are similar in needs and objectives,
All critical functional areas of the home so that they can employ whatever operational expertise is needed to establish an appropriate design
All essential decorative decor so that the residents can take advantage of completing the project by unifying and adding beauty to the spaces.

Testing the decision.

DSSM design program always leaves room for discussion.

Halfway into the process of programming development, therefore, when the basic parameters of the three essential parts have become apparent, it is a good idea to reassess the legitimacy of the spaces and house originally chosen by asking three quick vital questions:

Do our clients want a well-defined and understood housing structure, functional areas, and design decor?
Is the house equipped to respond fundamentally to the basic wants and needs of clients in the neighborhood?
Does this design program increase the market value of the home?

Nothing is more self-contradictory than talking about ‘creative’ design thinking, then, in their next breath, giving standard solutions for developing programs for various houses.

Rather than that, the purpose will be to show that an initial focus on the three essential methods must eventually lead back to its DSSM Design Program to tie in or unify with the others.

Accordingly, the intelligent Design Decorator/Contractor will always try to view the program for the Design Triangle in perspective and try to influence the dynamics of the relationships among them to expand the house’s relative advantage in the neighborhood.

Rather than that, the purpose will be to show that an initial focus on the three essential methods must eventually lead back to its DSSM Design Program to tie in or unify with the others.