Abstract
Privacy refers to the control of how much information about an individual should be allowed into the public domain. Individual privacy in an apartment building refers to the blockage of information within an individual room within the family apartment. Previous studies have given less attention on the privacy of residential apartments which this study focuses on. This research paper aims to explore the role of interior design in providing individual privacy in residential buildings. With time, more demand for apartment buildings is experienced and people are preferring more private places as physical connections become rare. As such, the question of how to maintain individual privacy with the population increase and reduced need for physical connections prompted the study. To assess the interior design privacy of the apartments, an observational case study was applied. Eight residential buildings in Erbil formed the research sample and they were assessed using a Likert scale to obtain average values of each variable. The findings show that interior design elements tend to influence visual and acoustical privacy to a great extent. The choice of the interior design materials has an impact on the overall rating of building on protecting both acoustical and visual privacy. Results show no correlation between visual and acoustical privacy for the individual for the same project. The interior design of Shahan city apartment presents the worst regarding to individual privacy. The study concludes that in order to increase the value of housing unit, it should maintain the individual privacy within the limitations of the societies. It is recommended that privacy achieved by controlling architectural elements of interior design of the apartment should raise its value. It is also recommended that the local and national governments strengthen policies regulating interior designs norms to reduce the lack of individual privacy.
Highlights
Privacy refers to the control of how much information about an individual should be allowed into the public domain [1]
The doors for all the apartment buildings have a better rating than the windows
There was a huge variation of privacy of the apartments between among the buildings for both acoustical and visual privacy
Summary
Privacy refers to the control of how much information about an individual should be allowed into the public domain [1]. The interior design of each home controls the amount of information that is retained within inner spaces. This way, two forms of privacy are significant when it comes to individual privacy within an apartment. One of them is acoustical privacy which has to do with having proper installations in place to control the sound passing from one space to another [2]. This protects confidential and sensitive information among the family members. The other one is visual privacy which is controlled through several barriers such as doors, windows, and walls [3]
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