Different Design Approaches for Well-Being

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-104
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Multiple Solutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Subjective Character ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Design Issue ◽  
Holistic Conception ◽  
Important Design

Interior spaces have a great effect on human well-being because of their role as the follower of life. Flexibility becomes an important design issue while considering the subjective character of well-being in interiors. Therefore, not only the inhabitants' needs change during their lifetime, but especially interiors with multiple or changing users need to be considered with a design approach that can lead to multiple solutions that can be adapted to changing users and preferences. This chapter aims to evaluate a series of design approaches that are particularly attentive to a holistic conception of human well-being and that can be adopted with particular reference to interior design. Here it is not intended to identify a general hierarchy of such approaches, as their appropriateness depends on the context, on the user and on the interpretation of the designer himself. Therefore, it is important to know the potentials of different approaches in solving design problems with different priorities.

scholarly journals THE FEATURES OF MODERN INTERIORS FORMATION OF MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (159) ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
Y. Veligotska ◽  
S. Gordiienko
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Environmental Friendliness ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Architectural Styles ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
The World

The interior design of hospitals space takes an important role in improving well-being during medical stays. In Today in Ukraine, the development of medical institutions, and especially their interior spaces, is given insufficient attention, and they, with their outdated and unattractive appearance, can cause discomfort to most patients, employees and visitors. Based on this, the general objectives of the study were to analyze the practical experience of interior design of medical institutions and identify important aspects and features of interior design. The article examines the design features of health care facilities from the perspective of the patient, visitor and employee. Analysis of the practical experience of interior design in modern hospitals around the world has revealed the main trends in design solutions. Analyzing the different designs of medical facilities around the world, it was found that the architectural styles for healthcare buildings are extremely diverse. From small specialized hospitals to huge medical complexes that help thousands of patients every day, each facility uses a unique combination of design details. On the basis of this analysis the general approaches of design concerning their formation are revealed. Some of them are based on the orientation and comfortable movement of all subjects of the hospital. Others are based on the fact that the technicality and conciseness of the design - a guarantee of quality medical care. Another approach when the design is based on natural integration and environmental friendliness, which creates a comfortable feeling in the hospital. Based on this, important aspects of the design of medical institutions were identified, including: aesthetic, environmental, functional, psychological and practical aspects. The main features of the interior of medical institutions are identified, which include the following important design elements: noise background, aesthetic and compositional solutions, lighting (natural, artificial), natural communication, ergonomics, comfortable workplaces, accents, visual landmarks. This article defines that the interior design of medical institutions is a set of measures to ensure the proper level of hospitals, which will significantly improve the well-being of patients, optimize the work of employees and create a comfortable environment for all subjects of these institutions.

scholarly journals A Participatory Interior Design Approach for a Restorative Work Environment: A Research-Intervention

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margherita Pasini ◽  
Margherita Brondino ◽  
Rita Trombin ◽  
Zeno Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Restorative Environments ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Biophilic Design

Exposure to environmental stressors has physical and psychological consequences. A demanding physical environment involves the allocation of additional attentional resources and an increase in psycho-physical stress. This study illustrates the process of a research-intervention aimed at designing a workplace, using a participatory design approach, and considering the beneficial effect of restorative environments in reducing stressful elements and improving well-being at work. Stressful situations occur daily, compromising proper functioning while causing the occurrence of physiological and/or psychological disorders. To be able to safeguard their psycho-physical well-being, people normally adopt coping strategies, i.e., remedies that allow them to cope and manage situations that generate stress. One of these strategies is the exposure to natural environments, which promotes recovery and sustains psycho-physical well-being. The restorative properties of natural environments have been scientifically proven. However, even built spaces can be thought of as restorative environments, in particular when certain conditions are granted. An applied science, known as biophilic design, provides useful indications from this perspective. This project involved 57 employees of the Italian site of an international non-governmental organization, in the transition from a site no longer adequate to a new site requiring renovation. In a first phase, a survey was conducted, to verify the perceived quality of the current workplace and to detect the unmet workers' needs, and to assess some other important psychological constructs connected with perception of restorativeness and well-being. In a second phase, the findings emerged from the survey was analyzed in depth through a participatory interior design process, together with an interdisciplinary team of architects, technicians of the organization and environmental psychology researchers. The team, together with some representatives of employees, worked together through possible scenarios, adopting a biophilic design approach, to design the new workplace. At the end, the same survey of the first phase was conducted, to detect differences in perceived quality in the new workplace compared to the previous one.

scholarly journals Developing interior design briefs for health-care and well-being centres through public participation

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 264-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Ruth Payne ◽  
Jamie Mackrill ◽  
Rebecca Cain ◽  
Jason Strelitz ◽  
Lucy Gate
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Well Being

scholarly journals Reshaping exhibition and museum design through digital technologies: a multimodal approach

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Borsotti ◽  
Letizia Bollini
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Exhibition Space ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Museum Design ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Social Landscapes

Exhibition design as preferential research framework in redefining interior spaces value-ratio in contemporary architecture debate: the merging end integration approach introduced by communication and performative exhibition practices is redesigning culturally and physically the pre-existing spaces. Exhibition design research innovative carrying out planning approach for changing strategies simultaneity knowledge spreading. In this way it became the most interesting and topical interior design project act, able to translate performing spaces into crossing experience built also with meanings dissemination and "surfing" knowledge method. The exhibition design direction is a different tool to control and develop multimodal approach to interior territories whose outcome fit to new social landscapes The Installation of an exhibition space meaning is now coming into sight as work-in-progress multi-disciplinary range, increasingly complex. The experiential element (whom exponential use of digital solution is just an exterior consequence) will increasing more and more and will bring to ostensive solutions development looking to new classifying parameters capable in enclosing several simultaneous organizing relationships. These parameters represents many super-structural rationalization process aptitudes that draw close true courses and imaginary tours, into complex changeable landscapes where raise to the surface place, objects and viewers sense and myths, made by production act, supervising to thoughts and actions as independent and symbiotic designer and visitor condition.

scholarly journals A study on selection of polymer based surface materials in interior design

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeynep Sadıklar ◽  
Filiz Tavşan
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Coating Materials ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Plastic Materials ◽  
Surface Materials ◽  
Group A ◽  
Interior Designers ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Material Information ◽  
Selection Of

People interact with surfaces in interior spaces, where a huge part of their life lasts. Many of these surfaces which surrounds the interior spaces are covering or coating materials in various textures and shapes. Materials used in interior surfaces are applied for various purposes. Protection, insulation or decoration can be considered as the main objective of these purposes.This study aims to research what kind of polymer based surface materials are used by interior designers and their reasons, frequency and area of use.  For this reason, the study is composed on a questionnaire. The questions are prepared by summarizing the polymer based material information obtained from the literature. The questionnaire participants are interior designers who are actively working in the field. With this group, a survey on selection of plastic materials has been made. Survey results are explained in the findings. The last chapter includes the conclusions and recommendations of the study.Keywords: Interior design, surface materials, plastics, polymers. 

scholarly journals Students as Researchers, Collaborators, & End-users: Informing Campus Design

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. Huber ◽  
Lisa K. Waxman ◽  
Stephanie Clemons
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Design Problem ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Campus Design ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Apply Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Integration Strategies

Students in undergraduate design programs often lack opportunity to conduct original research and apply their findings to project solutions. Consequently, they struggle with identifying and framing a design problem, understanding the importance of research-based design, and how to appropriately apply research findings to the needs and desires of project stakeholders. In interior design, this unawareness can lead to design solutions that appeal to the eye, but lack defensible rationale and often do not solve the design problem, or meet user needs. Exposure to research methods and collaborations with practitioners may change how students approach design problems by fostering an empathetic understanding of the human experience.This design case describes a project design at two universities where 72 sophomore and junior students collaborated with furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, Inc. to generate original research before applying their findings to the redesign of informal learning spaces in their campus libraries. Constructivist Learning and Backward Instructional Design, guided the design of the project. The result of this engagement, exposed students to research methods and research integration strategies, who outwardly demonstrated more confidence in making decisions during the design process. While the long-term implications from this type of engagement are not yet evident, encouraging students to ground their design ideas on evidence they have gathered, and their analysis of it, may not only shape their future decision making, but potentially lead to more appropriate client solutions and provide students with coveted job opportunities in positions where evidence-based design is highly valued.

scholarly journals [DESIGN INDEPENDENCE A COMPLEMENTARY PRINCIPLE IN THE DESIGN OF INTERIOR SPACES OF MALAYSIAN MOSQUE CASE STUDY] الاستقلالية التصميمية مبدأ تكميلي في تصاميم الفضاءات الداخلية للمساجد الماليزية دراسة حالة

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-125
Author(s):  
Mohammed Jarallah Tewfik ◽  
Ahmed Mohammed Yahya Al-Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Design System ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Design Creativity ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The interior design of Malaysian Islamic mosques is a vivid example of further innovation and innovation based on design creativity in design relationships.As a result of the interaction of this level, the design process shows a clear independence as a result of the interaction of the subjective capabilities factor of the interior designer based on the study of the specificity of the objective capabilities that govern the processes of drafting innovative decorative arts.Therefore, it was necessary to study this issue by identifying the research problem, which is summarized by: showing the features of design independence as a complementary principle in the designs of the interior spaces of Malaysian mosques,While the aim of the research focuses on identifying the features of design independence that are adopted as a complementary principle in the designs of the interior spaces of Malaysian mosques,While the importance of research is evident in presenting a clear picture of the concept of design independence, as it represents the theoretical base that can be used in practical application in designs of interior spaces for the chapel of the Malaysian Islamic mosques,The research study also includes both (research limits, theoretical framework, as well as research procedures based on the descriptive analytical approach (content analysis - case study)) leading to the results of the research study, which was among the most important: 1- Design configurations of all kinds and design configurations emerged within the designs of the internal determinants, based on the study of the interior designer, to the aesthetic independence of the division of space and size as a complementary principle within the internal determinants of the mosque of the two mosques. 2- The relationship of the principle of the independence of convergence as a complementary principle contributed to determining the distances between shapes, which can be perceived as a unified whole, through the distribution of units and shapes within a consecutive visual design system. While the most important recommendations emerged through the necessity of studying the choice of levels of internal determinants of the chapel of the Malaysian Islamic mosques.With the demonstration of the expressive characteristic of civilization development through design recruitment of appropriate vocabulary and design units with a careful selection of modern materials and materials in line with the innovative design path to achieve the requirements of design independence within the chapel of the Malaysian Islamic mosques.

Healthy Workspaces: Strategies for Increasing the Indoor Environmental Quality at Call Centre Interiors for Employee Wellbeing and Productivity

BUILDER ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 284 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
Salih Ceylan
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Call Center ◽  
Call Centre ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Certification And Accreditation ◽  
Cultural Functions

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.

The Well-Being Concept

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Living Environments ◽  
Intense Research

Well-being is related not only to physical health, but also to many other factors about our lives and living environments. It is a very 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. In this sense, design for well-being is an issue that requires intense research on subjective aspects. The chapter begins by discussing different conceptions of well-being and goes on by discussing what design can do for well-being. After discussing the spatial dimensions of well-being, the study focuses on the role of interior design in promoting well-being and underlines the importance of the concepts of flexibility, sense of place, and contact with nature.

Well-Being Concept and Interior Design Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 319-340
Author(s):  
Nilufer Saglar Onay
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Basic Design ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Important Concern ◽  
Specific Contribution

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.

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