More often than not, I visit a completed project and find that subsequent additions have destroyed the once-clean ceiling with random openings for: sprinklers, motion sensors, speakers, HVAC equipment, and smoke detectors. It's something, that as a designer, ruins the architecture of the room. Does anyone else find this to be true?
natematt
Mar 24, 15 2:23 pm
This is very true. Ceilings are one of the most detracting elements of many designs. Maybe this is why the "exposed" look has become more popular lately, because if you show everything then one little thing can't detract.
I appreciate a well organized set of sensors lights and sprinklers, I feel like it's a sign of a well designed space when I see it.
curtkram
Mar 24, 15 3:41 pm
photoshop.
SneakyPete
Mar 24, 15 3:47 pm
Look into techzone and flexzone by Armstrong. Then coordinate, coordinate, coordinate. Then talk to your CA person and explain the importance of a clean ceiling.
Nobody likes acne.
citizen
Mar 24, 15 4:54 pm
I beg to differ.
stone
Mar 24, 15 6:10 pm
This also ....
b3tadine[sutures]
Mar 24, 15 6:28 pm
my cool ceiling got ve'd.
JeromeS
Mar 25, 15 9:39 am
Its like having too much sky in a photograph. There is nothing wrong with a beautiful blue sky- but too much and it distracts from the scene...
ken robeert
Mar 25, 15 10:21 am
Amazing!
x intern
Mar 25, 15 12:30 pm
I think architects are the only people who look at the ceiling. Take a look at the ceilings in restaurants. I would hope if normal people and the people who own the place actually looked up most of them wouldn't be a nasty as they are.
If you are a restaurant designer please use black tile and grid, at least that way we can't see the crap that's building up on them.
Koww
Apr 28, 16 1:00 am
Haven't noticed that at all. Do you have any evidence for this?
More often than not, I visit a completed project and find that subsequent additions have destroyed the once-clean ceiling with random openings for: sprinklers, motion sensors, speakers, HVAC equipment, and smoke detectors. It's something, that as a designer, ruins the architecture of the room. Does anyone else find this to be true?
This is very true. Ceilings are one of the most detracting elements of many designs. Maybe this is why the "exposed" look has become more popular lately, because if you show everything then one little thing can't detract.
I appreciate a well organized set of sensors lights and sprinklers, I feel like it's a sign of a well designed space when I see it.
photoshop.
Look into techzone and flexzone by Armstrong. Then coordinate, coordinate, coordinate. Then talk to your CA person and explain the importance of a clean ceiling.
Nobody likes acne.
I beg to differ.
This also ....
my cool ceiling got ve'd.
Its like having too much sky in a photograph. There is nothing wrong with a beautiful blue sky- but too much and it distracts from the scene...
Amazing!
I think architects are the only people who look at the ceiling. Take a look at the ceilings in restaurants. I would hope if normal people and the people who own the place actually looked up most of them wouldn't be a nasty as they are.
If you are a restaurant designer please use black tile and grid, at least that way we can't see the crap that's building up on them.
Haven't noticed that at all. Do you have any evidence for this?
Dresden Frauenkirche ceiling and tourists.