Interior Design Projects Research Articles

On Comfort(s)

Although physical comfort is a self-evidently important goal in interior design projects, whose definition is usually assumed to be obvious and straightforward (a measurable outcome of the interaction of material and anatomical variables), in practice comfort has proven itself one of the most mysterious of human spatial possibilities. Comfort has radically shifted its meanings across historical epochs and across cultures. Rather than a simple and quantifiable spatial reality, comfort should be understood as a malleable social ideology – comfort as the unstable consequence of cultural ideas about bodies, including ideas about gender, class, decorum, custom, and race, overlaid onto shifting technological, material, economic, social and ideological circumstances. Understood this way, physical comfort can be reanimated as a pliable design variable – as it has shifted previously, so it can be reshaped today. The goal of this visual essay, crafted as seven open-ended drawings framed by short introductory observations, is to pry comfort loose from simplistic understandings and invite new investigations into its mysteries and future possibilities.

The Detection and Calculation of Design-Weighting on Indoor Environmental Elements—Illustrated by Real Interior Design Projects

In interior design projects, homeowners’ expectations and thoughts in mind are sometimes ambiguous and hard to pinpoint. This lack of clarity can lead to disagreements between owners and designers, making it difficult for designers to receive due remuneration. At the same time, the design project always has a restricted budget. Suppose the funds could be prioritized based on owners’ preferred weight of the indoor elements, with a larger portion of the budget allocated to the most crucial elements. In that case, it can significantly enhance the owner’s satisfaction. To address these challenges, this research introduces a novel analytical and computational approach that leverages the Positive And Negative Affects Schedule (PANAS) and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) to assess homeowners’ sentiments toward various indoor elements. This method aims to determine indoor elements’ design-weighting, design sequence, and distribution of project budgets, enabling designers to understand better and meet homeowners’ genuine needs and expectations in interior design projects. The efficacy of this approach was evaluated through the analysis of three real-life residential interior design projects. Data from the PANAS emotion scale and heart rate variability (HRV) measurements of the homeowners were collected before and after project completion. The findings revealed high satisfaction among homeowners following project execution. By adjusting indoor elements, owners’ negative emotions decreased significantly, positive emotions surged, and there was an improvement in the activity of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves, leading to enhanced physical and mental well-being. Furthermore, in-depth interviews with homeowners corroborated the effectiveness of the analytical calculation method in identifying latent negative indoor elements of concern to homeowners, thereby validating the practical utility of this approach in real-world design scenarios.

Delivery Process Framework for Interior Design Project in China

Delivery Process Framework for Interior Design Project in China

Applied Research on Interactive 3D Virtual Environment Design for Supporting Interior Refurbishment

Building interior design based on 2D diagrams and renderings will cause clients lack of understandings, which will lead to poor information coordination, thus the quality and efficiencies of decision-making will be affected, therefore, a new method need to be proposed for filling this gap. This research has studied the theories of interaction design and has explored the methods of interaction technologies base on the information demand in interior design projects to propose a workflow for developing interaction system. The proposed workflow and the developed interaction system follows BIM paradigm under ISO 19650 regarding to information management. The workflow and the system has been tested in a real project for making evaluation, which achieves good results for guiding future interior design projects.

Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Interior Design Education: Concept Development

This article aims to explore the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) as a design tool in interior design education. The research examines the students' interior design studio project outcomes over the usage of AI in creating conceptual images, and the implementation of the AI-created concept to the overall space. In the research, students' projects are divided into two groups of 5 according to sufficient or insufficient prompts for the "AI generated" conceptual images. Barnard's (1992) CAIDC (Consensual Assessment of Interior Design Creativity) scale was used for the assessment. Mann-Whitney U Test was conducted for the results. We understand that there is no significant difference between writing sufficient or insufficient prompts in the concept development phase of interior design projects according to the Barnard (1992)’s design merits. It has been confirmed that the main factor that influences this regard is the need for an appropriate "concept analysis" to adapt the concept generated with AI to the specified project spaces.

Interior design scope of work for interior design project delivery in china

Interior design scope of work for interior design project delivery in china

Implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) Technology for Interior Design Industry in Shandong

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a well-known application in architecture sectors. However, not many people in the related sectors are using BIM for the interior design of a building. Some companies and their interior designers are not having good collaboration towards enhancing BIM for the interior design projects. This study explores the benefits of BIM technology in interior design of Shandong Province, to identify and examine the current status and challenges to propose strategies for an effective BIM implementation in interior design. The study employed a mixed method with the use of primary quantitative data and secondary qualitative data to provide different types of information to meet the aims and objectives of the study. A survey was conducted with 50 engineers working in the construction and interior design sectors who have the experience of using BIM. The respondents were selected through a random sampling method to provide valuable findings to the interior designers and future researchers. The outcome of the research found out that BIM helped to develop their construction knowledge; it allows the interior designers to conceptualise their thoughts and transform it into reality from the process of executing, planning and development phases of a project and ease to change the planning according to the client’s needs. However, not all respondents are equally enthusiastic or in agreement with it. The study recommends future studies to include more sampling through a purposive sampling method with inclusion of more respondents for a more intensified outcome.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI): PRACTICES AND PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED BY INTERIOR DESIGNERS

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) has swept the globe. Tools of artificial intelligence are now readily available to everyone due to the advancement of new and more refined AI every day, and they carry the potential to fundamentally alter the way one lives, works, and interacts with their surroundings. The interior design strategy based on artificial intelligence technology is being used to optimize the entire interior design work to increase technological innovation in space. Designers can input their preferences and design ideas into artificial intelligence systems for interior design and receive suggestions for furniture, colour palettes, and other design elements. These AI applications are helpful to optimize the work management of an interior designer as well as appease the clients. The main aim of the research study is to find out the practices and problems experienced by Interior designers regarding the applications of artificial intelligence in professionally managing and completing interior design projects. Data was collected from 80 respondents using a questionnaire through the purposive sampling method. The results of this investigation were valuable for Interior Design professionals, to get refined knowledge about the development of Artificial Intelligence tools used in professional management of Interior Design. Through this study various informative programmes can be conducted about the latest trends in Artificial Intelligence technology, its use and applicability.

Strategic analysis for the effective management of interior design projects

With the progress of science and technology and the improvement of the living environment, people are concerned not only about the design effect and the quality of the project; project management has become an essential part of interior design. However, interior designers do not have a comprehensive knowledge of project management, interior design management, or the interior design project delivery of the quality of the vital role. This article discusses the meaning of project management and management of the impact and the importance of a detailed analysis description.

A study on the application of AI in modern interior design and its impact on design efficiency

Abstract This paper focuses on the functional characteristics of BIM technology, emphasizing the need to develop a combination of BIM technology tailored to the user’s interior design process. We utilize the hardware and software to establish the BIM technology environment, construct the interior design model using the Autodesk Revit software platform, import it into Lumion for color rendering, and utilize Navisworks Simulate software to gather project data and monitor the interior design project’s progress. Autodesk Ecotect software was used to find out how lighting affected the interior design using BIM technology. Next, an interior layout optimization model based on the improved whale algorithm was made to solve the interior layout problem, and the impact of using AI was confirmed. The data show that the error range for the daylighting coefficient using BIM technology and the old method is between 0.04 and 0.91. The old method takes 131 minutes longer than BIM technology. This means that the BIM-based lighting simulation model pre-processing process is still much more efficient than the old method. Furthermore, this paper maintains all the model’s index values above 0.68, demonstrating the model’s ability to achieve a reasonable interior space layout while simultaneously enhancing both the layout speed and the layout effect.

Interior design in the renovation, modernization and aesthetic editing of the Museum of History and Ethnography in Ungheni

The present paper deals with a scientific analysis of the interior design within the licensing process concerned with the renovation, modernization and aesthetic editing of the Museum of History and Ethnography in Ungheni, carried out in 2022. In the context, the historical course of formation and evolution of the museum is described, prominent personalities who contributed to the development of the museum, museum pieces and categories of exhibits in the museum's possession. All these have been used in value through the vision of interior design which is researched through the historical, ethnographic and artistic prism. Through the research, the role and responsibility of interior design in the process of consolidation and valorization of the national cultural heritage is highlighted. The given study presents the result of the interior design project, concerned with the correspondence or synchronization of the new modern implementations with the ethnographic data inherited from the historical period.

Exploring Indonesia’s Recycled-Plastic Waste Material in Interior Design for Sustainable Interior Eco-Planning

The amount of plastic waste in the world has captured the attention of the world’s citizens. Creative solution is expected to develop plastic waste into sustainable products. Recycling process of plastic waste possibly will change the material into more useful raw material to be utilized into designed product. The concept of developing plastic waste as the raw material must accommodate the specific characteristic in terms of dimension, color, and the purpose of product. It is found that recycled plastic waste has opportunity to explore and apply in architecture and interior design projects, since it has strength and shape that can be modified based on demand. The focus of this research is the exploration of recycled plastic waste in interior design. How to design recycled-plastic waste for interior elements? The research method uses exploratory research, which the result of this study produces design sketches as a design proposal of plastic waste material exploration. It is to support the sustainable development goals where designers should contribute to achieve sustainable live for future generation. Global sustainability has become the main objectives of development in twenty-first century. Selected designs are proposed as the outcomes of this research. It is expected that recycled plastic waste will be recognized as potential material that likely to apply in interior design project as building material, interior, and furniture accessories.

A New Retail Interior Design Education Paradigm for a Circular Economy

Since the advent of a circular economy, typical strategies for change have focused on circularising existing business models or developing new closed-loop ones, where design is understood as a service provider, adapting its processes accordingly. This understanding and application of design is problematical, constraining and misdirecting any potential for effective innovation in the future. Interior design methodology needs to be completely rethought to create a sustainable circular design ecosystem. The learning and teaching of the interior design process has its foundation in an unsustainable, traditional economy that operates in a closed linear sequence of design, specification and fit-out. An undergraduate retail interior design project highlighted the need to evaluate designing for a circular economy as an ecosystem, based on the 10 R’s leading to four building blocks for the learning and teaching of circular retail interior design. Through analysis of the nature and existing use of design within a circular economy, it is possible to conceptualise the deconstruction of the existing linear process of interior design pedagogy and rebuild that process as a sustainable circular retail interior design methodology. This paper identifies four key sustainable design principles as a foundation for a new education paradigm for a circular interior design ecosystem model.

Interior as a Scene in the Depictions of French Illustrators of Racine’s Works in the 18th Century: A Comparative Aspect

French literary illustration of the 18th century is studied from the point of view of depicting an interior as a locale. The problem of the influence of literary and visual sources on the formation of the image of an interior is studied through several series of illustrations for Racine’s Works in 18th century editions. The main sources of comparative research are the illustrations for J. Racine’s Berenice, engraved from drawings by French artists L. Cheron (1723), L.-F. Dubourg (1743), J. de Sève (1760), H.-F. Gravelot (1768), J.-J.-F. Lebarbier (1796). Reading Racine’s Berenice in French and Russian, reading critical works about “Racine’s space” helps to understand the image of locale in the playwright’s version. The events of Racine’s Berenice take place in the confined space of an ancient Roman palace. The author modernizes the locale, using the concepts of the French noble interior of his time — “cabinet”, “apartments”. The description of the scene has a minimum of detail, is contradictory and insufficient for literal depictions. The artists, following the example of the playwright, interpreted the scene in the spirit of modernity, but changed and supplemented the main and secondary details. As a rule, they depicted the reception area of the ceremonial apartments and accurately conveyed the styles of interior decoration (Grand style, Transition style, Neoclassicism, Directory style). The artists explained the episode and the play as a whole by means of compositional tools that had a wide semantic range. Comparison the illustrations among themselves and comparison the book engravings with architectural engravings shows the continuity of the artistic tradition and adherence to the academic rules of working with depiction. The artists repeated the compositions of similar illustrations and quoted the interior design projects of the 17th–18th centuries. The image of a locale in the illustration was directly dependent on visual sources, and not on the text. The method of depicting an interior in the illustrations was based on selective and arbitrary reflection of the text, actualizing the appearance of a locale, using the semantics of details and partial copying of samples.

Proposed Strategy to Increase the Number of Subscription of Thudio Using Freemium Model

Nowadays, almost all aspects of our daily life intersect with design and creativity, and design is no longer an exclusive thing; it’s a part of lifestyle. People become aware about interior design. Ever since Covid-19 pandemic, people mostly spend their time at home. It cause increasing furniture demand. From the data shows that the number of construction company in Indonesia is growing every year. This create opportunities and potential for business market. Thudio is a new innovation for designers to make their work easier. It connects a lot of stakeholders, from designers and architects to customers and suppliers, to help consumer deliver the best result for interior design projects. Thudio is a variation on the word “studio,” which refers to a place where designers, artists, and innovators work, collaborate, and innovate. Thudio aspires to become a venue for innovation and collaboration in the home living market. With the marketing activities that have been implemented, Thudio should develop so that the consumer subscription target can be achieved. The research strategy data collection method chosen for this research is questionnaires which is going to be administered through electronic and online questionnaires. This will be considered as the effective, and efficient way in capturing the information. Research with surveys by distributing questionnaires to interior designers that aim at describing and explaining business issues and seeks the answers by the user of the quantitative data. Research limitation; questioner only for Interior designer who works freelance, in-house, and as a student. The proposed questioner is designed to determine customer awareness of the Thudio brand and the services it provides. Also, to investigate whether factors influence users’ willingness to subscribe to a service. The framework used in this research to analyse the result using 4V (Value proportion, value creation, value capture, and value delivery) to asses the freemium business strategy. As proposed solution to be implemented, researcher using business model canvas (BMC). Based on the analysis, Thudio must create marketing initiatives to increase the number of Thudio service consumers. Furthermore, the aspect that makes individuals want to subscribe to a service is differentiated distribution, which is influenced by the benefits supplied and the service’s goal. As a result, Thudio employs a freemium strategy in order to increase the number of Thudio service subscriptions.

Work Process in Establishment Work Development Plan for Interior Design Project Delivery; The Guttman Approach

Work process and flow is crucial in interior design project delivery process. Within the balance of time, cost and quality, interior design process involves the execution of the designing, beginning to end, as well as the subsequent phases of construction and completion. Popularity of interior design nowadays amongst people around the world, demand interior design businesses aggressively in action. And this helps the interior designer self-interpret the ways, processes and flows without having uniform way of work in delivering project. This study intends to affirm the process, flow and order of interior design project delivery process in establishing interior design work development plan (IDWDP). This study is merely narrowed to the earlier phase of interior design project delivery process, where it will be discussing until the design stage (pre-contract phase). The establishment of IDWDP, it may give positive exercise for interior design professional in practicing the interior project by contributing to the sustainable economic growth, productive employment as well as decent work stated in SDG 8.

Determining key colors from a design perspective using dE‐means color clustering

AbstractDesigning a mood board is a creative tool designers often employ at the start of a new (interior) design project. The colors of a mood board represent important information about the envisioned interior designs. In this article, we focus on digital mood boards and we propose a novel method to determine the mood boards' key colors from a design perspective using dE‐means color clustering. This proposed algorithm includes a fixed initialization to overcome the non‐deterministic nature of traditional k‐means, and a merging step to ensure all colors in the calculated palette are at least a dE‐threshold apart. Quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms existing methods in determining the key colors from a design perspective. Additionally, we introduce a novel method to visualize the calculated color palettes that takes into account the contribution of individual pixels to the construction of the calculated color palettes. Finally, we demonstrate how the proposed algorithm can be used to characterize color palettes for various design styles like modern, industrial and art deco.

DYNAMICS-AKTION- PEDAGOGICAL DYNAMICS PROPOSAL, USEFUL FOR DESIGN STUDIO TEACHING AND BEYOND.

This paper is a continuation and a complement to the previous paper: #eindakoa# (what we’ve done) A pedagogical method of Interior Design Projects’ method.
 That paper developed a pedagogical method of design throughout a full course at a project Design Studio.
 This paper extends that previous paper and develops its pedagogical approach through a series of pedagogical dynamics and strategies, defined on a more precise and detailed scale.
 Each dynamic is artistically designed, almost like an action, to create a ‘learning event’ and teach the content of Design Studio through experience.
 These dynamics are inspiring, to such an extent that they can be transferred to any discipline. However, this article includes a specific theoretical support: a discussion and a comparative contrast with different models of the pedagogical method of the architectural project Design Studio.
 The first half of the dynamics are developed to enrich a conventional class, prior to the Covid- 19 pandemic. The second half of the dynamics are developed in response to the Covid-19 situation. They creatively exploit the possibilities of different platforms for online teaching.

ДИЗАЙН ІНТЕР’ЄРІВ ТЕМАТИЧНИХ РЕСТОРАНІВ ЯК СКЛАДОВА КУРСОВОГО ПРОЕКТУВАННЯ СТУДЕНТІВ СПЕЦІАЛЬНОСТІ «ДИЗАЙН»

The scientific publication outlines the methodology of teaching the specialized academic discipline “Design, Part 5” as a component of training of students of the Institute of Architecture and Design majoring in Design, aimed at the preparation of a comprehensive interior design project for a concept restaurant. Identification and usage of the national style features in the interior design of restaurants are becoming key factors in further stylization and transformation of ethnic motifs in modern interiors. The article highlights the results of mastering of the theoretical material by students during the semester, fulfillment of practical tasks, as well as the requirements to the content, volume and presentation of the course project. Based on the structure of the educational and professional program, the article describes the formation and development of student professional (special) competencies in the process of studying the academic discipline, as well as program learning outcomes. Interior design of theme restaurants is the object of the course and diploma design at the Department of Design and Architecture Fundamentals of the Institute of Architecture and Design of Lviv Polytechnic National University. The academic discipline “Design, Part 5” taught on the fourth year of study is a part of training of students majoring in Design; the study of this discipline develops the creativity of future designers, focuses them at the independent search for ideas and original three-dimensional solutions, requires processing of additional visual information and research and methodological literature. Students get acquainted with the history, modern experience and progressive interior design ideas for theme restaurants, learn how to find completed projects in the world practice and critically analyze them. In the course of the practical studies, students master the basic methods and principles of drafting working drawings, professional terminology used in the process of the interior design. Students often continue to work on the topics of their course projects on the interior design of catering establishments, and improve them by developing additional graphic brand elements, elements of landscape design in the catering establishment exterior, create design of large summer indoor or outdoor terraces, green recreation areas in their future diploma theses.

ARCHICADВ ІНЖЕНЕРНО-БУДІВЕЛЬНІЙ ГРАФІЦІ БУДІВЕЛЬНИКІВ ТА АРХІТЕКТОРІВ

Urgency of the research. Currently, BIM technologies is a catalyst for changes in the development and management of construction projects. Combining the stages of the project life cycle with one software product ensures the predictability ofresults, simplifies the introduction of changes when editing is necessary, and reduces financial costs for the production of design and estimate documentation, increasing the quality of execution of an architectural projectTarget setting. In practice, changing the previous scenario of the project accordingto the new wishes of the customer, for example, re-planning, corrections of the interior style, finishing materials requires the development of several solution options, which significantly slows down the project implementationActual scientific researches and issues analysis. In Ukraine, at the state level, the concept of the implementation of con-struction information modeling technologies and the plan of measures for its implementation were approved. The use of sectoralCAD collections in the developmentof design projects in the context of the mentioned concept can be considered as one of the tools for further reforming, modernization and digital transformation of the construction industry of Ukraine.The purpose of the article is to study the possibilities of object-oriented three-dimensional CAD ArchiCAD for solving architectural and construction problems using the example of the "Prydesnyanskyi" housing complex in the city of Chernihiv.The statement of basic materials.The current trends in the use of BIM technologies in architectural and construction design in the ArchiCAD software product of the Graphisoft Company were analyzed. Architectural, planning and constructive solutions of the interior design project have been completed. The design project development algorithm has been created on the example of a specific living space. Ways to improve the effective design system from Graphisoft are defined.Conclusions.The created template for the development of a design project provides such advantages as reduction of financial costs for the production of design and estimate documentation, reduction of time and avoidance of errors when making changes to the project.The development of software for information modeling technologies is due, first of all, to the significant demand for VIM products abroad. This creates prerequisites for directing the training vector to the training of specialized specialists who will be able to apply the mentioned technologies in the development of real projects.The article is a publication of scientific and methodical character.