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RIDQC STUDENT MANUAL
STUDYGUIDE 2026/2027 ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS.
3 Characteristics to an excellent design - ANSWER-1. It
functions well and serves the needs of its users
2. it is made of carefull selected quality components and
appropriate materials.
3. it is aesthetically pleasing.
Space Planning - ANSWER-Effectively utilizing the overall area
that a project encompasses.
Space Planner/Residential Interior Designer - ANSWER-This
person's role is to be the liaison between the architecture and
function of the designed space.
Relative Size - ANSWER-how big something is in comparison
to something else.
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Absolute Size - ANSWER-refers to the literal dimension of a
space or object.
Scale - ANSWER-relates to size in that someone may say "This
is a large scale room."
Rooms are often 'drawn to scale; on graph paper or blue prints
using a scale of - ANSWER-1/4"=1 foot
Space - ANSWER-The area in which shapes and forms exist, is
most frequently a room defined by the planes of walls, floor and
ceiling.
Positive Space - ANSWER-Solids or forms
Negative Space - ANSWER-The area that surrounds the solids
or forms
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Proportion - ANSWER-Eye-pleasing relationship between
various parts and the whole. (Ex. Queen Anne or Chippendale
chairs are well-proportion because the seat, legs and back
relate well to eachother).
The Greeks - ANSWER-Discovered that ratios that best serve
our human needs lie between 1:1 and 2:1.
Pi: the most eye pleasing and useful ratio - ANSWER-1:1.618
Leonardo da Vinci - ANSWER-Developed a system of
proportions using the human figure with outstretched arms and
spread legs, with arms and legs touching a circle inscribed in a
square.
Anthropometry - ANSWER-the scientific study of the
measurements and proportions of the human body.
Ergonomics - ANSWER-The study of workplace equipment
design or how to arrange and design devices, machines, or
work space so that people and things interact safely and most
efficiently.
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Textures - ANSWER-The actual and perceived details on a
surface and describe the relative roughness or smoothness of a
surface, the hardness and softness as well.
The Golden Ratio - ANSWER-Seemingly magical relationship
with the
Fibonacci Series turn out to relate directly to
natural phenomena such as the clockwise and
anticlockwise spirals on the surface of
pinecones and pineapples and in the centers
of daisies.
Radial balance - ANSWER-Is based on a circle with elements
arranged
around a single point.
Symmetrical - ANSWER-The "Mirror" effect, or when one object
is reflected across a plane to create another instance of itself.
RIDQC STUDENT MANUAL
STUDYGUIDE 2026/2027 ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS.
3 Characteristics to an excellent design - ANSWER-1. It
functions well and serves the needs of its users
2. it is made of carefull selected quality components and
appropriate materials.
3. it is aesthetically pleasing.
Space Planning - ANSWER-Effectively utilizing the overall area
that a project encompasses.
Space Planner/Residential Interior Designer - ANSWER-This
person's role is to be the liaison between the architecture and
function of the designed space.
Relative Size - ANSWER-how big something is in comparison
to something else.
,2 | Page
Absolute Size - ANSWER-refers to the literal dimension of a
space or object.
Scale - ANSWER-relates to size in that someone may say "This
is a large scale room."
Rooms are often 'drawn to scale; on graph paper or blue prints
using a scale of - ANSWER-1/4"=1 foot
Space - ANSWER-The area in which shapes and forms exist, is
most frequently a room defined by the planes of walls, floor and
ceiling.
Positive Space - ANSWER-Solids or forms
Negative Space - ANSWER-The area that surrounds the solids
or forms
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Proportion - ANSWER-Eye-pleasing relationship between
various parts and the whole. (Ex. Queen Anne or Chippendale
chairs are well-proportion because the seat, legs and back
relate well to eachother).
The Greeks - ANSWER-Discovered that ratios that best serve
our human needs lie between 1:1 and 2:1.
Pi: the most eye pleasing and useful ratio - ANSWER-1:1.618
Leonardo da Vinci - ANSWER-Developed a system of
proportions using the human figure with outstretched arms and
spread legs, with arms and legs touching a circle inscribed in a
square.
Anthropometry - ANSWER-the scientific study of the
measurements and proportions of the human body.
Ergonomics - ANSWER-The study of workplace equipment
design or how to arrange and design devices, machines, or
work space so that people and things interact safely and most
efficiently.
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Textures - ANSWER-The actual and perceived details on a
surface and describe the relative roughness or smoothness of a
surface, the hardness and softness as well.
The Golden Ratio - ANSWER-Seemingly magical relationship
with the
Fibonacci Series turn out to relate directly to
natural phenomena such as the clockwise and
anticlockwise spirals on the surface of
pinecones and pineapples and in the centers
of daisies.
Radial balance - ANSWER-Is based on a circle with elements
arranged
around a single point.
Symmetrical - ANSWER-The "Mirror" effect, or when one object
is reflected across a plane to create another instance of itself.
