Subjective wellbeing and interior architecture: why and how the design of interior spaces can enable activities contributing to people's subjective wellbeing

This paper identifies and discusses designing interior building dynamics that, through user interaction, can be physically manipulated and maneuvered to suit a changing situation in spatial requirements/preferences. Designers have partially realised this architectural vision through both mobile and dynamic interior elements, and relocatable construction systems. Here lies the potential for a digitally manufactured modular system for spatial dynamics, providing interactive interior architecture with embedded spatial fluidity. Providing occupants of these interior spaces with the capacity to determine the spatial conditions how and when they require. Leveraging modern digital fabrication techniques like CNC timber milling and consideration of factors such as assembly/disassembly, this thesis explores ideas of tactility and kinetics of interior space and how the user interactions can exact spatial change. This research develops a modular tectonic language, with low operational - mechanical and construction - complexity. A manipulatable interior tectonic such as this would be possible to complement existing structures or other fixed designed architectural elements to provide an enhanced level of building function through a immediately influenceable spatial conditions. The research undertaken explores a series of experimental modular prototypes, each a unique response for spatial dynamics.

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Tech-noiR: An Exploration of Interior Spaces in an Urban context generated by Emergent Technology

10.26686/wgtn.17139362 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Daniel Sebastian Jacob

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Well Being ◽

Cost Of Living ◽

Urban Context ◽

Urban Centre ◽

Interior Architecture ◽

Urban Living ◽

Emergent Technologies ◽

Interior Spaces ◽

Job Opportunities

Poor pedestrian and transportation circulation, overpopulation, expensive cost of living—these are some of the issues inherent to any urban metropolis around the world. As cities develop and grow, more job opportunities open up for people, which leads to the increase in city population. This growth affects the city’s lifestyle, leading to overpopulation, poor circulation and expensive cost of living within the urban centre. Influenced by the concept ‘time is of the essence’, urban living has become synonymous to an autonomous service stuck within a loophole. This lifestyle, now further propelled by the presence of technology, can prove to be detrimental to the inhabitants’ comfort and well-being. In order to adapt to an impending future of the urban areas, an alternative to future urban living using technology with a minimal yet comfortable dwelling must be provided. The thesis proposes that emergent technology as a design-generating tool along with ergonomic design and depictions of visionary architecture are capable of producing an alternative to urban minimal dwellings in the future. It contends that these future urban minimal dwellings can be developed by: mapping and understanding emergent technologies potentially usable in interior architecture that can be developed into tools; collecting and analysing ergonomic principles and techniques appropriate to interior architecture; collecting and analysing literature about minimal dwelling in modern history; and analysing components and technologies used in depicted living spaces within selected filmography.

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Grafting Interiority: Generative Methodologies Between the Natural and the Synthetic

Interiority ◽

10.7454/in.v4i2.160 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Rana Abudayyeh

Keyword(s):

Environmental Conditions ◽

Computational Models ◽

Interior Architecture ◽

Urban Dynamics ◽

Natural Systems ◽

Interior Spaces ◽

Natural Landscapes ◽

Environmental Responses ◽

Interior Volume ◽

Natural And Synthetic

Design is approaching a crucial period where the exchange between interior and exterior systems needs to be rethought and addressed from the standpoint of resilience and innovative environmental responses. The era of the detached interior bubble that is climate controlled and therein severed from natural systems is no longer justified or feasible. Interior spaces must respond to environmental conditions and proactively engage natural systems. The paper examines grafting methodology as an interior spatial formula that aims to generate complex sectional strategies for new programmatic typologies. It showcases work from a third-year interior architecture studio where students utilised natural landscapes as the premise to develop generative computational models that informed their design interventions.While placing interior interventions between natural and synthetic processes, interior grafts outline a design tactic that challenges the disjunction between internal settings and external parameters. The potential to draw relevance from external parameters and integrate the derivative systems into the interior volume carries many implications for interior architecture and urban dynamics. This approach demarks a radical repositioning of the interior volume as a continuation of the exterior scape, proliferating a fluid and active interiority.

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Tech-noiR: An Exploration of Interior Spaces in an Urban context generated by Emergent Technology

10.26686/wgtn.17139362.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Daniel Sebastian Jacob

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Well Being ◽

Cost Of Living ◽

Urban Context ◽

Urban Centre ◽

Interior Architecture ◽

Urban Living ◽

Emergent Technologies ◽

Interior Spaces ◽

Job Opportunities

Poor pedestrian and transportation circulation, overpopulation, expensive cost of living—these are some of the issues inherent to any urban metropolis around the world. As cities develop and grow, more job opportunities open up for people, which leads to the increase in city population. This growth affects the city’s lifestyle, leading to overpopulation, poor circulation and expensive cost of living within the urban centre. Influenced by the concept ‘time is of the essence’, urban living has become synonymous to an autonomous service stuck within a loophole. This lifestyle, now further propelled by the presence of technology, can prove to be detrimental to the inhabitants’ comfort and well-being. In order to adapt to an impending future of the urban areas, an alternative to future urban living using technology with a minimal yet comfortable dwelling must be provided. The thesis proposes that emergent technology as a design-generating tool along with ergonomic design and depictions of visionary architecture are capable of producing an alternative to urban minimal dwellings in the future. It contends that these future urban minimal dwellings can be developed by: mapping and understanding emergent technologies potentially usable in interior architecture that can be developed into tools; collecting and analysing ergonomic principles and techniques appropriate to interior architecture; collecting and analysing literature about minimal dwelling in modern history; and analysing components and technologies used in depicted living spaces within selected filmography.

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Phases of Design in Interior Architecture

Journal of Recent Activities in Architectural Sciences ◽

10.46610/joraas.2020.v05i02.005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Vidhi Agarwal ◽

Vidhi Agarwal

Keyword(s):

Interior Design ◽

Human Beings ◽

Interior Architecture ◽

Interior Spaces ◽

The People ◽

The World ◽

Sense Of Satisfaction ◽

At Home

Design is the innate nature of human beings since the inception of mankind. The very act of designing a product gives one a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment. The journey of the design started from its very roots in the creative instincts of the people who actually used their creative approach to create safe habitats and products for their survival. Starting from The tools to secure them from any wildlife and then it extends from the matter of survival to the matter of comfort. People started designing or making comfortable beds, safe and secure homes. And later now longing for better experiences at home or anywhere they go. Thus, Designing Interior spaces comes from the very deep rooted instinct of people to make their surroundings more comfortable and secure. But, practicing interior design in the world which is constantly changing and evolving with springing new issues and challenges to tackle is a tough job.

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Agility in Interior Architecture: An investigation through Prototypical Design for Interactive Spatial Dynamics

10.26686/wgtn.17151275 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Patrick Rowan

Keyword(s):

Spatial Dynamics ◽

User Interaction ◽

Digital Fabrication ◽

Modular System ◽

Interior Space ◽

User Interactions ◽

Interior Architecture ◽

Existing Structures ◽

Architectural Elements ◽

Interior Spaces

This paper identifies and discusses designing interior building dynamics that, through user interaction, can be physically manipulated and maneuvered to suit a changing situation in spatial requirements/preferences. Designers have partially realised this architectural vision through both mobile and dynamic interior elements, and relocatable construction systems. Here lies the potential for a digitally manufactured modular system for spatial dynamics, providing interactive interior architecture with embedded spatial fluidity. Providing occupants of these interior spaces with the capacity to determine the spatial conditions how and when they require. Leveraging modern digital fabrication techniques like CNC timber milling and consideration of factors such as assembly/disassembly, this thesis explores ideas of tactility and kinetics of interior space and how the user interactions can exact spatial change. This research develops a modular tectonic language, with low operational - mechanical and construction - complexity. A manipulatable interior tectonic such as this would be possible to complement existing structures or other fixed designed architectural elements to provide an enhanced level of building function through a immediately influenceable spatial conditions. The research undertaken explores a series of experimental modular prototypes, each a unique response for spatial dynamics.

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Social and Temporal Comparisons as Moderators of Psychological Resources Associations With Wellbeing

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000193 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 96-104 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hasida Ben-Zur

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Positive Affect ◽

Subjective Wellbeing ◽

Social Comparisons ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Psychological Resources ◽

Low Levels ◽

Age Range ◽

General Wellbeing

Abstract. The current study investigated the associations of psychological resources, social comparisons, and temporal comparisons with general wellbeing. The sample included 142 community participants (47.9% men; age range 23–83 years), who compared themselves with others, and with their younger selves, on eight dimensions (e.g., physical health, resilience). They also completed questionnaires assessing psychological resources of mastery and self-esteem, and three components of subjective wellbeing: life satisfaction and negative and positive affect. The main results showed that high levels of psychological resources contributed to wellbeing, with self-enhancing social and temporal comparisons moderating the effects of resources on certain wellbeing components. Specifically, under low levels of mastery or self-esteem self-enhancing social or temporal comparisons were related to either higher life satisfaction or positive affect. The results highlight the role of resources and comparisons in promoting people’s wellbeing, and suggest that self-enhancing comparisons function as cognitive coping mechanisms when psychological resources are low.

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