The State of Environmentally Sustainable Interior Design Practice

Today, sustainable architecture is not just a trend but an architectural style that has become a "revolution." The lack of interior focus in the process of sustainable architectural development has created a gap between architects, interior designers, clients, or those wishing to live in a responsible construction environment. Responsibility for nature and people. Although environmentally sustainable interior design (ESID) has become a major issue in interior design practice, the frequency with which interior designers make sustainable choices in real practice is still limited, especially when choosing materials. Among these materials, this study wants to emphasize bamboo materials in sustainable furniture design in Vietnam. Indeed, this is a common material in sustainable design in Vietnam, and there are also many studies on the use of bamboo materials in housing construction. However, the paper raises main issues: role of bamboo material in interior design in Vietnam, the better access to a basic knowledge of sustainability, and more up-to-date information about sustainable materials will play a critical role in promoting sustainable practicing in Viet Nam.

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ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE INTERIOR DESIGN - THE CHALLENGES AND TRENDS

10.7562/se2018.8.02.07 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Milena Pertičević ◽

Nebojša Milkić

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Interior Design ◽

Focal Point ◽

Environmental Safety ◽

New Approach ◽

Environmentally Sustainable ◽

Green Architecture ◽

Starting Point ◽

Sustainable Interior Design ◽

Novel Concept

In recent years, sustainable development has become a focal point for various fields of engineering design. A relatively novel concept of green architecture and eco-friendly interior design presents a new approach which is in accordance with the environmental safety concerns. This concept offers a starting point in search for adequate sollutions for a number of sustainability issues that contemporary communities are facing today. Key words: sustainable architecture, sustainable interior design, eco-design, eco-friendly architecture, environmental safety.

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Envisioning the atmospheric effect through (im)materiality

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/20196402007 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 64 ◽

pp. 02007

Author(s):

Nilay Ünsal Gülmez ◽

Dürnev Atılgan Yagan ◽

Murat Şahin ◽

Efsun Ekenyazıcı Güney ◽

Hande Tulum

Keyword(s):

Interior Design ◽

Analytical Method ◽

Design Studio ◽

First Year ◽

Second Phase ◽

Design Practice ◽

Atmospheric Effect ◽

Two Phases ◽

Light Color ◽

Design Experiments

In an attempt to bridge the gap between architectural/interior design practice and education, ‘atmosphere’ as a prolific contemporary architectural debate in practice and theory is covered by the experiment of ‘Staging Poe’ carried out as a first year Design Studio through the study of Edgar Allen Poe’s selected poems. Poe’s 1846 text of ‘The Philosophy of Composition’, unfolding his analytical method of writing and emphasis on “effect” in poetry, provides a ground for experimenting with facets of materiality and structuring the studio. Aiming to cultivate intuitive design experiments of students into informed processes in hybridizing conceptual/textual and material/sensual aspects, studio is structured in two phases. In the first phase, “materialization”, idiosyncratic interpretations of students from words to materials with a focus on tectonic experiments and haptic experiences are sought in between materializing and dematerializing processes. In the second phase, the “atmospheric”, emphasis on dematerialization of the perception of materials through tools, such as light, color and sound is exercised to transform the object into a performance stage. Outcomes of the studio on aspects pertaining to material and materialities in creation of the immaterial that is the atmosphere is followed and evaluated through responses of students’ weekly reports.

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Kazakhstan: Assessment of Renewable Energy Support and a Green Economy

Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism ◽

10.14505//jemt.v12.3(51).03 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 631

Author(s):

Sergey BESPALYY

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Power Plants ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

The State ◽

Green Economy ◽

Energy Sources ◽

Environmentally Sustainable ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact

The growth of renewable energy sources (RES) shows the desire of the government of Kazakhstan to meet challenges that affect the welfare and development of the state. National targets, government programs, policies influence renewable energy strategies. In the future, renewable energy technologies will act as sources of a green economy and sustainable economic growth. The state policy in the field of energy in Kazakhstan is aimed at improving the conditions for the development and support of renewable energy sources, amendments are being made to provide for the holding of auctions for new RES projects, which replaces the previously existing system of fixed tariffs. It is expected that the costs of traditional power plants for the purchase of renewable energy will skyrocket, provided that the goals in the field of renewable generation are achieved. This article provides an assessment of international experience in supporting renewable energy sources, as well as analyzes the current situation in the development of renewable energy in Kazakhstan and the impact on sustainable development and popularization of the «green» economy. The study shows that by supporting the development of renewable energy sources, economic growth is possible, which is achieved in an environmentally sustainable way.

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A Methodology for Interior Design

Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts - Handbook of Research on Methodologies for Design and Production Practices in Interior Architecture ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-7254-2.ch008 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 161-178

Author(s):

Ervin Garip ◽

Ceren Çelik

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Interior Design ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Design Practice ◽

Direct Proportion ◽

Overall Design ◽

Living Space ◽

Variable Environments

The notion of designed space often comes up with the tendency of perfection. This approach, which connects the design to perfection, is mostly reflected in the overall design, even in the representations. In this approach, the power of representation advances in direct proportion to its perfection and perfection is expected in the designed spaces. The situation created by this perfect representation and the reflection of perfection to the design also emerges in the “home” where daily encounters and routines are most intense. Rather than a flawless photogenic object, interiors are dynamic and variable environments containing daily encounters. The interior design practice can be handled from this context and actively influence the design methodology itself. The study shows that as the concept of “home” moves away from a photogenic object, the potential of designing a multi-layered and flexible living space in interior design studios increases. This situation provides alternative spatial articulations in the final product and representations as well as in the interior design process.

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War Art in Japan

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem205-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Asato Ikeda

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Interior Design ◽

Subject Matter ◽

The State ◽

Japanese Culture ◽

World War ◽

The West ◽

Woodblock Prints ◽

War Effort ◽

Totalitarian State

Under Japan’s totalitarian state during World War II, most Japanese artists participated in the war effort. Their activities included producing works commissioned by the state, displaying works in state-sponsored exhibitions, donating the proceeds of art to the state, and dedicating works, as symbolic gestures, to religious sites, important battles, seminal state officials, or to those who gave their lives in the war. War artists produced works in diverse media, styles, and subject matter, ranging from painting, photography, woodblock prints, and sculpture to architecture and interior design. However, their works invariably glorified Japan’s military occupation in Asia and war against the West, or they resonated with the wartime state ideology that sought to recreate a traditional Japanese culture uncontaminated by modernity.

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