Interior Architecture Design Research Articles

Investigating collaborative learning in architectural design studios from the instructors’ perspective

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the barriers to adopting collaboration in architectural design studios from the instructors' perspectives and explore strategies to overcome barriers.Design/methodology/approachSemi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 coordinators in architecture and interior architecture design studios to gather insights into their experiences and perspectives on collaboration. Thematic analysis was employed to identify key themes and patterns in the data.FindingsThe study reveals that collaboration is highly valued by instructors for its potential to enhance creativity, problem-solving abilities, and preparation skills among students. However, the study identified several barriers, such as student conflicts, coordination challenges, cultural differences, and technological constraints.Practical implicationsThe instructors recommended specific strategies to promote collaboration in architectural design studios. These strategies include involving students in collaborative projects, providing training in collaboration skills, striking a balance between online and in-person activities, and developing supportive policies and skills. Implementing these strategies can help design programmemes that prepare students for professional success and future careers.Originality/valueThis study sheds light on the importance of integrating collaboration skills in architectural education. By exploring barriers and suggesting strategies, it provides valuable insights for educators and encourages further research into the implementation of these strategies. Design programmes can benefit from adopting a multifaceted approach to foster collaboration among students, thereby enhancing their learning experience and future prospects.

The Application of Green Materials and Practice of Environmental Protection Concepts in Architectural Interior Design

The Application of Green Materials and Practice of Environmental Protection Concepts in Architectural Interior Design

Advanced sustainable interior design concept as methodological approach in the process of architectural design

Implementation of sustainable interior design in contemporary buildings is one of the most important parts of architectural design. Scientific research has shown that there is a meaning of incorporation of sustainable advanced interior design, and that the sociocultural, environmental, biophilic effects that this type of interior design has, can be manifested by physiological and emotional aspects of people in the interior design. In the analysis of the sustainable advanced interior design process, it is necessary to identify and define the phases and methods in interior design. The methods in the design process are focused on: divergence (exploration of possibilities and limitations by critical thinking, through qualitative and quantitative research methods for creating new activities towards better sustainable interior design solutions, transformation (redefining specifications for sustainable design solutions for traditional and contemporary design), convergence (analysis of prototypes of possible scenarios for better design solutions leading to gradual or significantly improved design solutions), sustainability (managing the research process, and redefining sustainable design solution prototypes over time), articulation (visual relationships between parts and the whole unit). Sustainable interior design includes several phases, such as information phase, analysis of specific requirements, specification, problem solving, presentation, idea development, implementation and evaluation of the project. Specific attention in this research has been paid to analysis of sustainable advanced interior design, as a concept of combining natural environment with interior design organization by minimal interior design, flexible interior design, ecological interior design and green interior design, The concept and the principles of sustainable interior design, sustainable green wall system and its benefits in aesthetics and usability of green space, natural look in sustainable advanced interior design, environmental values, biophilia, that create natural environment, increase productivity for the workers and costumers of interior design, define cultural and social values as integral part of the cultural environment, social interaction and artistic presentation. The expected outcome in this scientific paper is to identify contemporary design approaches in sustainable interior architectural design with specific emphasis on green technologies that contribute to the aesthetics and architectural concept of buildings and create application in international educational processes.

Application Analysis of the Cultural Element Characteristics of Qili Kiln Ceramics in Architectural Interior Design

With the continuous development of modern interior design concepts, the integration of traditional cultural elements has become a new design trend. As an important component of China s traditional culture, the ceramic culture of Qili Kiln provides new inspiration for modern interior design with its unique artistic charm and profound cultural connotations. Based on this, this article analyzes the cultural elements of Qili Kiln ceramics and explores their application in architectural interior design.

Cultural Analysis of Chinese Architectural Interior Design

Culture serves the principle and background of design. From ancient times to the present, the contents and concepts of traditional culture, architectural culture, and classical garden culture are inextricably linked to interior decoration and design, and play an important role in design. This study examines and comprehends interior design from a cultural perspective by identifying and discussing faults in interior design. It is related to the fact that "Chinese traditional culture" includes both ideological and historical aspects of Chinese culture. The article briefly discusses the evolution and peculiarities of interior design in China. It also aids in identifying existing problems and determining their core causes in order to appropriately blend Chinese modern interior design with associated cultures. The study will provide a brief overview of the history and characteristics of interior design in China, as well as identify current issues. It will focus on the meaning and significance of these two dimensions of culture, as well as make a link with interior design, arguing that culture is essential to design itself. The article seeks to broaden and close some of the problems and gaps in the historical research literature, take into account the comprehensive cultural perspective and the multiple characteristics of interior design, and present its own viewpoints and suggestions based on previous research, in order to provide references for future studies of the same type. At the same time, it can help the public gain a better grasp and cognition of interior design, art, and aesthetics, as well as promote traditional culture, architecture, and garden culture.

Application of high performance computing based on big data in architectural interior design

In response to the problems of insufficient data management and low construction quality in architectural interior design, high-performance computing technology was proposed to be applied to optimize the overall effect of architectural interior design. This article proposed some solutions to the problems in interior design of buildings, and applied high-performance computing technology to building design materials, building operation data processing, etc. Furthermore, combined with multi-objective genetic algorithm, relevant experimental tests were conducted on the optimization of interior space environment design in buildings. The experimental results showed that under the algorithm proposed in this paper, the average health standard compliance of each scheme reached 92.17%, and the average emotional requirement satisfaction reached 88.42%. The average interface detail attention reaches 84.65%, and the average environmental comfort reaches 92.87%. Under the genetic algorithm, the average compliance of health standards for each scheme was 88.14%, and the average satisfaction of emotional needs was 84.17%. The average attention to interface details was 81.18%, and the average environmental comfort was 90.30%. From the above data, it can be seen that the algorithm proposed in this paper can achieve good optimization results in the design of indoor space environment in buildings.

Influence of architectural interior design on human perception and emotion with the consideration of neural aesthetics

Interior contour, an essential component of the built environment, has drawn wide attention from home and abroad. From the perspective of neuroaesthetics, preference for architectural interior contour is closely tied to brain activity. Therefore, revealing the underlying neural basis of aesthetic preferences for architectural interior contour in terms of neuroimaging is of great importance. We recruited 30 healthy participants for behavioural assessment and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans. Using percent amplitude of fluctuation (PerAF), the current study measured participants’ neuroaesthetic responses to curvilinear and rectilinear architectural interior contours in the three frequency bands. When participants viewed architectural images with curvilinear contours, the PerAF was significantly reduced in multiple brain regions, in comparison to rectilinear architectural interior contours. Moreover, significant negative correlations were observed between ratings of aesthetic judgments of curvilinear space and increased PerAF values in specific regions including the left Rolandic operculum. Aesthetic judgments were significantly correlated with PerAF values in specific brain regions, including the left middle frontal gyrus. Our study reveals that participants have a higher preference for curvilinear contours over rectilinear contours. Neural response varied across different architectural contours, highlighting the complex interplay of neural mechanisms underlying aesthetic perception.

Retracted: Architectural Interior Design and Space Layout Optimization Method Based on VR and 5G Technology

Retracted: Architectural Interior Design and Space Layout Optimization Method Based on VR and 5G Technology

Spatial Organization Approaches at the First-Year Design Studio

The space, that the raw material of design studio contents in disciplines related to spatial design, is a delimited space in the simplest terms. The totality of relations created in this delimited volume is associated with certain organizational form, such as central, linear, clustered, gridal and radial. This study aimed to investigate those organizational forms based on student process outputs of 17 students, completed the Design Studio-I course during the 2022-2023 Fall Semester at the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Fenerbahce University. Also it is aimed to created a space fiction by using basic design elements and to reveal student approaches in this process. The study was designed with qualitative research method and content analysis was used as the data collection technique. In this direction, the process stages and outputs performed by the students for the given problem in the studio environments were analyzed. As a result of the analyzes, the form analysis of the two-dimensional photo frames by using the design elements and the transformation process of this analysis into the space organization has been revealed. Thus, an application for the way of benefiting from design elements in the process of space organization has been showed.

Visualization analysis of architectural interior design combined with virtual reality technology under new process conditions

Abstract In this paper, a 3D model based on semantic annotation is constructed with the goal of improving the efficiency of building interior design. By analyzing the basic methods of semantic annotation for building interiors, the method of positioning and map construction is selected to obtain the indoor point cloud data. The distance between 3D spatial lines is calculated using the frame line extraction algorithm, and the target area of the frame line candidate is divided according to the distance. According to the principle of detecting raster circles using the Hough transform, an interior design structure recognition method is proposed for recognizing windows, doors, and walls in building interiors. The results show that the modeling time of the semantically annotated 3D model is 10 seconds faster than the other models on the wall; 9 seconds are saved on the door modeling, and 7 seconds are saved on the window modeling. The visualization effect of semantically annotated 3D models is mostly concentrated in (0.5-1), and a large number of data points are distributed in (0.6-0.9), which indicates that the visualization effect of semantically annotated 3D models is better. The semantically annotated 3D model proposed in this paper can improve the visualization of architectural interior design, which can improve the efficiency of designers to a certain extent.

Study on the Application of Ganan Hakka Architectural Elements in Modern Architectural Interior Design

Abstract This paper constructs a morphological extraction model of Ganan Hakka architectural elements based on feature fusion using ResNet as the backbone network. Then, the extraction method of Ganan Hakka architectural colors based on the combination of multivariate fuzzy C-mean clustering algorithm and the K-mean++ algorithm is designed. The improved recommendation algorithm intelligently matches the extracted color and morphological elements and applies them to modern architectural interior design. The results show that the average time of interior design intelligent recommendation is 3.8s, the overall accuracy is above 0.94, and the degree of interior design intelligent matching is in the range of [0.78,0.99]. Based on this study, Ganan Hakka’s architectural elements can be well combined with modern architectural interiors to promote traditional culture.

BIM product recommendation for intelligent design using style learning

Building information modeling (BIM) has been widely adopted in architectural interior design due to its characteristics such as visualization, coordination and simulation. Currently, an increasing number of BIM products are created to facilitate BIM interior design, which triggers new demand for BIM product recommendations to improve design efficiency by directly recommending satisfactory BIM products for designers. Current efforts mainly focus on the text-based BIM product retrieval and ignore the high-level semantic concept of style features. Although style consistency is one of the critical design principles, BIM product recommendation satisfying style consistency remains to be unexplored. This study proposes a novel design recommendation scheme for BIM products using style learning, termed DrStyle. Firstly, a product representative image selection model is designed to identify a representative image retaining the best style of a BIM product. Then, the DrStyle employs a style learning algorithm to extract the style feature vector using the representative image as input. Finally, a BIM product recommendation scheme is proposed to recommend BIM products by computing the similarities of style feature vectors. The performance of the proposed DrStyle was evaluated, and the experiment results showed that the DrStyle achieved an average precision of 68.8% purely using the style. This study complements intelligent design from a novel perspective of style consistency and will inspire more comprehensive intelligent design schemes.

Reform and Practice of Talent Training of Architectural Interior Design Professionals in Higher Vocational Skills Competition: Taking Chongqing Energy Vocational College as an Example

For higher vocational colleges, skills competition is an important indicator of professional personnel training quality. In this paper, the architectural interior design professional skills competition in Chongqing Energy Vocational College is taken as an example, the many years of teaching and competition experience are taken into account, the problems existing in the cultivation of architectural interior design professionals in higher vocational colleges are analyzed, and corresponding solutions are proposed.

Gentrification and Adaptive Reuse: An Exploration of the Design Concept of Sustainable Urban Escape. Case Study: Pos Bloc and Pasar Baru Shopping Street, Jakarta

This research aimed to explore the concept of sustainable urban escape through the lens of gentrification as a tipping point for adaptive reuse. The chaotic backdrop of a fast-paced city addresses a research gap at the intersection of urban culture and interior architecture design. This study revealed how the historical narrative could serve as the foundation for a concept of sustainable urban escape —gentrification, as a subset of adaptive reuse by reclaiming the glory of the past.
 Keywords: sustainable urban escape, adaptive reuse, gentrification

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGH ART & DESIGN THEMED PROJECTS: A QUALITATIVE INQUIRY

This research aims to explore the dynamic relationships within sustainable entrepreneurship. This research examines the evolving nature of sustainable entrepreneurship in the presence of three major aspects: social, economic, and environmental. In management literature, the idea of sustainable entrepreneurship is relatively new. Sustainable business practices are frequently referred to as stainability business practices. The idea was conceived to connect books on entrepreneurship and sustainable development. A qualitative research methodology is adopted for this research. Thirty-nine students from Art & Design sector were included in this study. A total of 39 students were involved in the research process. Students were later given a detailed project to submit entrepreneurial projects, including the sustainability factors. These 39 students were the graduates of the final semester from four different sectors: Fashion Design, Textile Design, Interior Architecture Design, and Graphic Design. It is not easy to progress toward sustainable entrepreneurship policies for all stakeholders involved to maximise their operations and benefits due to the fact that the existing institutional structures prefer the currently operating businesses and systems that are not sustainable over the more recent ones that are sustainable. The research findings in this study provide insights into concepts important to understanding sustainable entrepreneurship in a developing country. Keywords: Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Pakistan, Sustainability, Case Study, Projects, Art & Design.

Architectural Interior Design and Space Layout Optimization Method Based on VR and 5G Technology

With the continuous optimization of the living environment, people’s requirements for its comfort and cultural taste are also constantly improving, and their understanding and requirements for the appearance and style of the building and the layout of the building space have been further deepened, thus forming a situation of diversification and diversification of the style and form of the architectural appearance and interior design. There are a lot of layout problems in modern engineering and real life, and the indoor space layout is a very important branch. The indoor space layout focuses on the indoor scenes that people rely on for production and life. At the same time, indoor scene models are gradually applied to more and more fields. The urgent need for indoor scene modeling has also led to relevant research on indoor space layout. Because of its wide application prospects and great commercial value, indoor space layout has become an important research topic in the field of computer graphics and computer vision. As the computer-aided design is widely used in the field of intelligent design, indoor space layout has also become an important research field. Focusing on the automatic design and optimization of indoor space layout, this paper proposes an optimization method based on design constraints for the automatic generation of a layout plan based on the given layout boundary or layout space. The room units in the interior space layout are represented by polygons composed of multiple rectangles, and the constraints and rules in the layout design are transformed into constraints on related rectangles. Experimental results show that our scene redirection method is effective. Comparing with the results of uniform scaling further proves the effectiveness of our redirection algorithm.

Examining Workshops in the Intersection of Formal and Informal Architecture Education: The Case of “Bahar Atölyeleri”

Today, it is known that formal education models alone are not sufficient for the complexity of design education. Thus, these models should be supported by informal methods. In contemporary architectural education, the formal structure is supported by various informal education tools such as competitions, workshops, and panels. However, although it is seen as two different education models, it is not possible to draw a clear boundary between formal and informal education. Because it can be said that today's formal education contains informality and informal education has various formal aspects. In this context firstly, formal, informal, and non-formal education models are examined. Furthermore, extracurricular, and co-curricular activities, which are a part of formal, informal, and non-formal education models, are explained. Secondly, the workshops, which are seen as an informal tool in architectural education, are examined according to their characteristics such as method, subject, actors, organizer, duration, and venue. Subsequently, this article discusses the formal and informal status of workshops according to these characteristics. The discussion is carried out over four workshops with different characteristics, organized by the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Istanbul Kültür University under the name of “Bahar Atölyeleri” (Spring Workshops). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four participants who participated in four different workshops. Thus, it was aimed to discover the formal and informal aspects of the workshops by conducting interviews with the participants.

Editorial “ICMEK-5 Rethinking” special issue

Nowadays, we are in a period of rapid changes that affect the theory and practice of interior architecture education, as in all other fields. Especially, in terms of the actors that form the basis of professional training, a more visible transformation is exhibited in the dimensions of education programs, design approaches, and transfer process with the effects of changing social dynamics. For this reason, it is important to discuss the versatility of education on an academic platform in interior architecture, as it is in all design-oriented disciplines. The "International Congress of Interior Architecture Education" (ICMEK), the first of which was held in 2007 at Istanbul Technical University, was later held in 2012, 2015, and 2017, hosted by the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design of Istanbul Kultur University has contributed to the discipline as a national platform with the extent of participation and bringing together scientists who think and research on interior architecture education. The congress, which plays a role in the development of interior architecture education with different themes, was held in 2022 as an international scientific event. Organized in partnership with Istanbul Kültür University and Karadeniz Technical University, the "5th ICMEK International Congress of Interior Architecture Education" tried to shed light on new dynamics and future projections in interior architecture education at an international level. In this sense, the theme of the 5th ICMEK, which aims to discuss interior architecture education and present various suggestions for its future, has been determined as "rethinking". Researchers involved in interior architecture education or practice were invited to question the past and the present, think about the future, and produce within the framework of theory-practice-history, teacher-learner, undergraduate-graduate, formal-informal, curriculum-process, face-to-face-online, physical infrastructure-technological infrastructure, interdisciplinary interaction-continuous professional education, digitalization, ethics and many more, through the congress. In the congress, which was held online on 16-17 June 2022, in addition to twenty-one paper presentations, four guest speakers who are the leading names in the field from abroad,

TYPOGRAPHIC IMAGE AS A VISUAL COMMUNICATION INSTRUMENT

Writing is one of the main communication tools that has been widely used since the Sumerian civilization discovered it. While it had a symbolic attitude in its form in the first periods of its discovery, it was simplified over time and brought to the basic form we use today. With the discipline of typography, which allows us to use writing, which is one of the main constituent of visual communication and graphic design, both aesthetically and functionally, graphic designers visualize writing in variety of different forms, traditional and contemporary. Today, visual communication is one of the most important concepts encountered in every aspect of human life. People are now trying to meet their communication needs faster by looking and seeing instead of reading. In this study, rather than recording the verbal language, which is the main function of writing, it is explained by giving examples how writing is used as an imaginary language of expression in different art and design disciplines, especially in the graphic design discipline. In this direction, the typographic image style is defined in the study and the concept of typographic image is explained by giving examples in the disciplines of sculpture, architecture, interior architecture, textile and fashion design, and industrial design, especially in the discipline of graphic design. Keywords: Writing, Typography, Typographic Image

A Review Article: Fall Incidents and Interior Architecture— Influence of Executive Function in Normal Ageing

Many ageing people are staying at home, whether they are self-isolating or social distancing, because of the current Covid-19 situation. Fall incidents at home among the ageing are significantly associated with a high level of mortality. Bathrooms are frequently reported as a major environmental hazard in connection with falls. This serious health risk raises the matter of interior architecture. In terms of preventing falls, more architectural research focuses on interior elements e.g., handrail design, and non-slip mat, whilst less attention is paid to the issue of how ageing causes falls. Therefore, this article sheds light on the normal ageing process through an executive function that helps in the fall prevention of ageing people via decision-making and problem-solving. Normal ageing gradually results in declining executive function, including cognitive and motor functions, which limits and reduces day to day activities. The cognitive function (as a system) involves processing speed, accuracy in response, and error response whereas the motor function (as a mechanism) defines both gross and fine motor functions. A combination of cognitive and motor functions reflects conditions that may lead to a fall. Regarding the executive function, interior architecture for preventing falls in normal ageing people is strongly encouraged e.g., clear layout, timesaving activity, simplicity of design, lighting uniformity, short walking distance, cased opening, lightweight fixtures, and fine texture flooring. This article reviews the literature to address the knowledge gaps between interior architecture and human-centred design through ageing ergonomics, and employs a behaviour-focused aspect to interpret results for interior architects. Electronic databases, including Scopus, PubMed, and Google Scholar, were searched to specify appropriate papers, which were restricted to those in the English language. To improve the quality of the elderly’s life, this article provides recommendations that could assist interior architects in this challenge.