Urban Interiority: Designing interior space through the lenses of shelter, place-making and atmosphere

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Deborah Stace

<p>The discipline of interior architecture suffers from a lack of discipline specific theory, a definitive title and definition, and an understanding by the general public of the role and scope of this area of design. Many definitions view interior architecture (otherwise known as interior design or simply interiors) as existing only within the context of architecture. However a recent growth in interest and discussion around interiors has highlighted the fact that those within the discipline no longer view a fixed physical enclosure or architectural envelope as defining conditions of interior space. Architecture as a prerequisite to interiors has come into question, which also questions our understanding of the conditions that define interiority.  The concepts of shelter, place and atmosphere have been identified as contributing to an understanding of interior space. This research uses these three concepts as ‘lenses’ which contribute to an understanding of alternative ways of experiencing and designing interior space. The program of a bus shelter has been selected in order to test how these concepts can create an experience of interiority in a form that is not conventionally understood as interior space.</p>

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Deborah Stace

<p>The discipline of interior architecture suffers from a lack of discipline specific theory, a definitive title and definition, and an understanding by the general public of the role and scope of this area of design. Many definitions view interior architecture (otherwise known as interior design or simply interiors) as existing only within the context of architecture. However a recent growth in interest and discussion around interiors has highlighted the fact that those within the discipline no longer view a fixed physical enclosure or architectural envelope as defining conditions of interior space. Architecture as a prerequisite to interiors has come into question, which also questions our understanding of the conditions that define interiority.  The concepts of shelter, place and atmosphere have been identified as contributing to an understanding of interior space. This research uses these three concepts as ‘lenses’ which contribute to an understanding of alternative ways of experiencing and designing interior space. The program of a bus shelter has been selected in order to test how these concepts can create an experience of interiority in a form that is not conventionally understood as interior space.</p>


2014 ◽  
Vol 608-609 ◽  
pp. 251-255
Author(s):  
Jia Wei Wu ◽  
Hai Bo Li

Interior furnishing design actually is the construction interior space design, an organic part of the whole building, a continuation of the architectural design, a manifestation of deepening the concept of architectural space.This article elaborates on the close relationship between furnishing design and interior design, contents and the important role of furnishing design classification.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Rebecca Wyborn

<p>This thesis explores how co-working offices emerged as a solution to the shift in the social expectations of the workplace. It studies how the rise in the number of freelancers and entrepreneurs has resulted in the materialisation of co-working offices. It examines how co-working offices offer flexibility in terms of membership plans, but how their interior environments do not yet reflect this. In short it aims to investigate how these workplace interiors can adapt to meet residents needs.  This research embraces the multi-functionality of the co-working office and the demands of residents who occupy these spaces. Three local case studies and international precedents are explored which give insight and offer opportunities on materiality, site context and multi-functional spaces. It explores how to engage residents by challenging how best to design co-working offices. This project considers the requirements of the co-working office and how co-working interiors are occupied throughout the day. The design proposes a kit of parts ‘space making’ solution, which enables co-working offices to meet resident’s needs.   This research contributes to the limited published discussion of understanding interior space in the context of co-working offices. This research explores through interior architecture, how co-working offices can be designed to reflect its resident’s individual ways of working and co-workings varying spatial needs. Although based around co-working spaces, the researcher recognises the implications for findings based around corporate office environments.</p>


BUILDER ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 284 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
Salih Ceylan

Indoor environmental quality is a requirement for good architectural and interior design. The definition of indoor environmental quality refers to the conditions of the interior space that provide health and wellbeing for its occupants. Elements of indoor environmental quality are thermal comfort, indoor air quality, ventilation, ergonomics, natural and artificial lighting, odor, and acoustic quality. Indoor environmental quality is required in every type of interior space including ones with residential, educational, and cultural functions and workspaces. It is also included as one of the factors of energy efficient and sustainable design in building energy certification and accreditation systems. This study focuses on call center interiors as a type of workspaces, where the employees spend a long time in the interior space communicating with customers on the phone. The aim is to provide theoretical information and practical application suggestions for higher quality design in call center interiors. The methodology of this paper consists firstly of a literature review to study and analyze the definition and elements of indoor environmental quality, and its implementation into call center interiors as workspaces. Analytical studies lead to strategy proposals for better designed call center interior spaces. The results of the study indicate that better designed interior spaces in call centers lead to better health and wellbeing of the employees, resulting with higher performance and service quality.


Author(s):  
Rishav Jain

With the increasing globalisation and modernisation, the recent interior architecture practices across the globe seem unified and present a huge departure from a sense of identity and belongingness of where it is at. The built landscapes that earlier reflected a rich craft culture are slowly transforming into standardized and homogenized boxes with very little cultural meaning attached to them. This is no different for a country rich with craft traditions like India, where the contemporary interior architectural landscape seems highly disconnected to its craft culture and surrounding context. The chapter focuses on two major discourses; the first one sets up a base with discussion on the notions of craft, space making craft, and contemporary interior design practices in India; and the second one focuses on the need of integrating crafts in interior design education through case studies of a variety of academic courses offered at Faculty of Design, CEPT University, India.


Author(s):  
Nilufer Saglar Onay

Well-being is an ephemeral condition in relation to the complex system of interconnected components changing from culture to culture and person to person together with time and space. Therefore, it is very important to investigate the intersections of architecture and humanities in order to understand how design can contribute to the way we build up well-being. The specific contribution of this chapter is the introduction of the well-being framework for interiors and its application to design process. The framework proposal, consisting of contextual, functional, psychological, social, ergonomic, aesthetic, and sensory requirements as basic design criteria, aims to support both theoretical and practical activities regarding well-being in all living environments. Since interior space is one of the most important determinants of our everyday experiences, its role in well-being as a conscious construct needs to be an important concern of spatial design.


2020 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 04011
Author(s):  
Junyan Dong ◽  
Bomin Zheng ◽  
Yupi Fu ◽  
Kechao Li

With the construction of a large number of affordable housing and the development of green buildings, the design of green affordable housing has become a new concern and research topic in China’s residential architectural design, and the interior design of affordable housing has become a top priority. This article takes Changchun city as an example, through the research of affordable housing in Changchun, visit, found the main problems existing in the status quo, in view of the problems put forward housing interior space design optimization principle, and according to the design principles of indoor space scale, provides a good green indoor living environment for green residential tenants in cold areas.


2014 ◽  
Vol 587-589 ◽  
pp. 419-422
Author(s):  
Tian De Wei ◽  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Xiao Jun Zhu

This paper analyzes the features of traditional decorative elements in color, pattern and technology, and shows the decorative, nationality and cultural characteristics of them. The ways of architecture interior design are proposed. Put forward the feasibility to Mawei patterns used in interior design, and summarizes the applied regional interior space in a way and method, shows the significance and value of traditional decorative elements in the development and practical application.


Author(s):  
İnanç Işıl Yildirim

Intelligent spaces are rooms or areas that are embedded with sensors and actuators which enable the spaces to perceive and understand what is happening in them. Through an increasing number of computers and wireless communication technologies networked them, these spaces have the ability of receiving the parameters of physical world which users exist in their relevant context, analysing and processing the data with the interfaces between the physical and digital world, and react or change their mode and augment the human functionality, on time. Integration of computer and physical space results a space which have the computer's thinking ability. Due to the space having intelligence, sensors and the capability to communicate, definitions are not the same as in usual space. Pervasive computing is transforming interior spaces by allowing utilities, goods and information to appear dynamically where and when they are needed. Also, we are face with the space that can understand what is happening inside and outside it and which is not passive to the changing environmental situations. Intelligent interiors can become immersive sensory environments that combine the advantages of automation and modern technology with sensory feedback and materiality. The advances in hardware, system design, and software made enable to achieve this vision. In this world, physical objects and spaces are linked to the digital world and information about the physical world can be used to support human functionality and experience. In this paper, the vision of intelligent space will be explained and the innovations that helped to realize these spaces will be introduced. The social and psychological impacts of the future technologies while designing interior space will be discussed. The changing way we work and live and interfering boundaries of the space titles were asked by the way of a short questionnaire to the Interior Design Students who have the seminar about Intelligent and Interactive Spaces this semester, so their knowledge about these spaces and computer technologies are enough to comment the questions. This will give us the idea of future’s interior designers’ new role in these environments. These finding will give us a supporting knowledge about intelligent or thinking spaces and their impacts on the roles of interior designers.Keywords: Intelligent spaces, pervasive environments, interior design education, future vision.


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