Room Interiors Research Articles

Implementation of Energy Efficiency and Visual Comfort in Malang’s Foreign Exchange Office Lighting

The Victory International Futures office is running on foreign exchange. It is located in East Java, Indonesia, in Malang. The furniture in this office has an HPL finish, which is typically dark and has a brown cotton color. The light source’s reflections will be lessened as a result. The southeast-facing Victory International Futures building has good lighting. However, the lighting may be improved due to the limited artificial lighting offered in some areas and the absence of windows, which prevents daytime sunshine from reaching its full potential. Using windows where none are present results in an improper exchange of air coming in and going out. This study intends to ascertain the effects on workers caused by the influence of office air circulation and light intensity. This study’s technique, a case study, requires that we visit the office right away. Data gathering methods included surveys, interviews, and using the Light Metre program to gauge light intensity. According to the test results, the typical room has more light than it needs at night. Through smart lighting, this research proposes designs to enhance the quality of conference room interiors, particularly lighting design. A standard light distribution of 73,9 lux is achieved by simulating one type of lamp already present in the space using the Light Metre application.

Intuitive space texture generation using hand tracking, speech recognition, and generative AI

This research aims to explore new methods of intuitively redesigning room interiors using gesture, speech, and generative AI. This approach represents a new approach to interior design, allowing users to easily customize appearance of a room through voice and hand gestures. This project investigates how hand tracking, speech recognition, and generative AI can be integrated to enable intuitive and user-friendly interior texture customization in virtual spaces. Previous studies on interior design using XR have mainly used augmented reality (AR) to relocate furniture. However, in these methods, the only way to select furniture textures is to search for them in prepared furniture. Our method uses hand-tracking and speech recognition to capture a user’s desired image and employs generative AI to realize these preferences in a VR environment. The process involves scanning real-world furniture and rooms and applying AI-generated textures based on what the user communicates. The system allows users to easily visualize room interiors and modify them according to their preferences. This can enhance the traditional room design process. This method is currently restricted to texture only, but 3D model generation AI could provide additional flexibility. This method also has the potential for collaborative design work by sharing an environment.

Modified GAN with Proposed Feature Set for Text-to-Image Synthesis

Automated synthesis of practical images from the text could be useful and interesting; however, present AI systems are yet far from this objective. Nevertheless, in current years, powerful and generic Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) structures were introduced to train discriminative text feature representation. In the meantime, Deep Convolutional GANs have started producing highly convincing images of specified categories, like room interiors, album covers, and faces. In this research work, we plan to develop a new model for text-to-image synthesis, which contains three important phases: (i) feature extraction, (ii) text encoding, and (iii) optimal image synthesis. Initially, the text features such as improved TF–IDF, bag of words, and N-gram are extracted from the text and they are trained by Bi-LSTM. During the encoding of an image from text, cross-modal feature grouping is performed. Further, the image is synthesized using modified GAN (MGAN) with a new loss function. Here, for precise synthesis of images, the weights of GAN are optimized using Self-improved Social Ski-Driver (SI-SSD) optimization algorithm. Eventually, the superiority of the suggested model is examined via an assessment over existing schemes.

MODERN LUXURY DESIGN CONCEPT ON APPLICATION OF ROOM INTERIOR ELEMENTS

Room is one of the spaces in the house that is classified as a private area. Rooms are often used as a place to rest, so a room needs to be designed as comfortable as possible for its occupants. The more the times, the more diverse the styles of interior design that are circulating and which are in demand by many people. The Modern Luxury Trend in Interior Design originated in Singapore which later developed in a design collaboration between modern and luxury styles. Modern Luxury style gives the impression of a modern, and also luxurious in an interior. This style is much favored by the millennial generation because it can be applied to various room sizes, and emphasizes a minimalist style with the use of high-quality materials. So, the research was conducted to find out the use of the right materials and colors will produce a luxurious but still modern interior. The type of research method used in this article is a qualitative descriptive design method. So that in this article, a luxury modern design concept will be produced in the application of room interior elements, so that readers are expected to know the application of room interior elements with modern luxury concepts. Therefore, this article is intended for students who are designing room interiors, students who are doing internships in the interior industry, and for designers who are doing room interior projects.

Analisis strategi experiential marketing dalam mempengaruhi keputusan pembelian ulang minuman Staykult di Surakarta

This study aims to find out what experiential marketing factors influence repurchasing decisions on sales of Staykult drinks in Surakarta and which experiential marketing factors are the most significant. The method used in this study is quantitative, with a multiple linear regression approach. The study results show that all Sense-Feel-Think-Act-Relate factors influence the repurchase decision. At the same time, the sense is the experiential marketing factor with the most substantial influence. The Staykult beverage shop stimulates the consumer's five senses by providing a taste in the form of drinks and food with a distinctive and high-quality taste, very comfortable room interiors, cleanliness, and excellent comfort. With fast service and the friendliness of the servers provided, customers feel comfortable in the shop to hang out with relatives for a long time, as a feeling that customers receive.

An Assessment of the Emotional Aspects of Colours in Hospital Patient Room Interiors based on Characteristics of Individuals Using Virtual Reality Technologies

بستری شدن در بیمارستان استرس‌ زیادی نسبت به خود بیماری به وجود می‌آورد. به همین دلیل، متصدیان امر باید بتوانند در فضاهای درمانی محیطی آرام و متناسب با نیازهای روانی مراجعه‌کنندگان فراهم آورند. یکی از مؤلفه‌های مؤثر در این زمینه کارکرد رنگ‌ است که نقش اساسی در درک محیط، کسب اطلاعات، و جهت‌یابی ایفا می‌کند. هدف در این پژوهشْ بررسی اثرات رنگ فضای داخلی معماری اتاق بستری، به‌منزلة عامل میانجیگر، بر حالات عاطفی بیماران با در نظرگرفتن تفاوت‌های شخصیتی آن‌هاست. برای شناسایی ویژگی‌های شخصیتی افراد از مدل شخصیت پنج عاملی نئو استفاده‌ شده است. در این مدل ویژگی‌هایی مانند روان‌رنجوری، برون‌گرایی، استقبال از تجربه، توافق‌گرایی و وجدان‌گرایی در افراد ارزیابی می‌شود. در این پژوهش از روش تحقیق شبیه­سازی و مدل‌سازی فضا استفاده و با مطالعات کتابخانه‌ای به جمع‌آوری اطلاعات پرداخته شده است. همچنین برای تحلیل اطلاعات و سنجش رابطة میان متغیرها و تحلیل نتایج از نرم­افزار SPSS و روش پژوهش همبستگی پیرسون استفاده شد. همچنین از آزمون­های آماری رگرسیون خطی ساده و چندمتغیره برای تعیین رابطه و شدت و جهت رابطة بین متغیرهای مستقل و وابسته استفاده شده است. نتایج به‌دست‌آمده نشان داد که رنگ سبز روشن در تحلیل‌های عاطفی رنگ‌ها جزء رنگ‌هایی محسوب می‌شود که افراد در اتاق‌هایی با این رنگْ احساس راحتی، آرامش خاطر، و خشنودی از فضا را داشتند. این رنگ ارتباط معناداری را در آنالیزهای رگرسیونی و همبستگی با شخصیت روان‌رنجوری نشان داد؛ به این معنا که افرادی با شخصیت روان‌رنجورْ دارای ویژگی‌هایی ازقبیل اضطراب و افسردگی و عصبی بودنْ آن را رنگ مؤثر در احساس آرامش اعلام می‌کنند.

Revisiting Healing Environments: Islamic Interior Elements in Hospital Rooms in North Africa.

A predominant notion among researchers is that hospital room design and decor are subject to the designer's expression of self, which is contrary to evidence-based studies showing that design and decor can impact patient health. The aim of this study was to examine whether improvement in quality of healthcare provided in hospitals could be achieved through the convergence of expertise of healthcare professionals and hospital room designers. This was a prospective study to identify the impact of hospital interior design features with a focus on single occupancy rooms. Volunteers were recruited through advertisements and the study was conducted at the Tripoli Medical Center. Responses were analyzed using a three-dimensional computer-aided design software to help respondents accurately map their preferences and visualize outcomes. Participants preferred an aesthetically pleasing hospital room environment that included art and bright colors, window views, and the need for personalization, technology, mobility, and flexibility, all of which improved satisfaction and happiness. Of these, participants' preference for technology as a cause for satisfaction and happiness was a novel finding. Designers of hospital room interiors should plan and create an appealing single occupancy room for increasing user satisfaction and patient wellness.

Image Synthesis Based On Feature Description

Abstract: Generating realistic images from text is innovative and interesting, but modern-day machine learning models are still far from this goal. With research and development in the field of natural language processing, neural network architectures have been developed to learn discriminative text feature representations. Meanwhile, in the field of machine learning, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have begun to generate extremely accurate images of especially in categories, such as faces, album covers, and room interiors. In this work, the main goal is to develop a neural network to bridge these advances in text and image modelling, by essentially translating characters to pixels the project will demonstrate the capability of generative models by taking detailed text descriptions and generate plausible images. Keywords: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Generative Adversarial Networks

EXOMARS-2020 MISSION: CHOOSING EFFECTIVE DISINFECTING AGENTS

The paper reports testing and selection of appropriate disinfectants against the entire spectrum of bacteria and fungi detected in clean assembly rooms of organizations cooperating in the ExoMars-2020 project. As a result, we chose and recommended two agents to be used for decontamination of assembly room interiors, namely EKOR (Novodez, Russia) and Litosanit (Satellit, Russia).

Waterborne coatings with sub-ambient cooling under direct sunlight–Part II: Cooling effect under real working conditions and key physical properties

Current sub-ambient daytime radiative cooling (SDRC) designs are generally evaluated in a well-insulated apparatus to suppress heat convection and conduction with the surrounding environment. In a companion study, we experimentally demonstrated that serial waterborne coatings, which combined particle scattering, sunlight-excited fluorescence, and mid-infrared broadband radiation, exhibited pronounced SDRC effects on various substrates installed on a well-designed rooftop setup under different climatic conditions. In this study, we experimentally show that the coating with yellow-green fluorescence (termed as the FR coating) can achieve meaningful SDRC under real working conditions. When applied to a concrete scale-model building, the FR coating showed a significant SDRC effect compared with other substrates installed on the rooftop cooling device and an assembled corrugated steel house. The average decrease in sub-ambient temperature under direct sunlight was 10.1 ± 1.4 °C with a maximum value of 12.4 °C under a peak solar intensity of 999 W/m2. Moreover, during the coldest day in winter, the maximum sub-ambient temperature reduction during the midday hours was 5.3 °C. The maximum difference between the lowest temperatures of the coated and uncoated scale-model buildings’ room interiors was 1.5–1.6 °C. Therefore, excessive heating energy consumption in the winter might be completely compensated for or exceeded by the cooling energy savings in the summer in areas that require both heating and cooling depending on the season. Additionally, the coating possesses excellent weather and salt spray resistance, self-cleaning capabilities, and excellent visible appearance, which are essential for practical applications.

Post Occupancy Evaluation in the Senate Room, Faculty of Engineering, Hasanuddin University, Gowa

In higher education institutions, an effective and efficient communication is an important competitive advantage. Most of the communication is carried out in various meeting room environments. In terms of creating the right space for meetings, flexibility, easy use, and supporting university productivity, meeting rooms must be specially designed according to the architectural standard of space requirements. The Senate Room in the Faculty of Engineering, of Hasanuddin University, is one of the many rooms that are designed especially for meeting activities within the faculty. It is located on the 2nd floor of the Center of Technology (CoT) Building, with a capacity of 64 seats, and an area of 180 m2. This room is arranged in a two-way theater or proscenium type, with lined tables and flat floors. This study aims to: 1) Identify the characteristics of the elements that shape and fill the room; 2) Analyze the effect of technical space planning on the functional aspects of users, and 3) Evaluate spatial design performance in terms of functional aspects. The research method used is the Post Occupancy Evaluation with qualitative data analysis. The population in this study is the users of the room as the subjects 0f space as the subject of research and the Senate Room of Engineering Faculty as the object of research. The results showed a discrepancy between the standards and needs of users both functional and technical aspects. The results of this study are expected to contribute practical insights to architectural design, specifically related to the creation of meeting room interiors.

A survey and taxonomy of adversarial neural networks for text‐to‐image synthesis

AbstractText‐to‐image synthesis refers to computational methods which translate human written textual descriptions, in the form of keywords or sentences, into images with similar semantic meaning to the text. In earlier research, image synthesis relied mainly on word to image correlation analysis combined with supervised methods to find best alignment of the visual content matching to the text. Recent progress in deep learning (DL) has brought a new set of unsupervised DL methods, particularly deep generative models which are able to generate realistic visual images using suitably trained neural network models. The change of direction from the computer vision‐based approaches to artificial intelligence (AI)‐driven methods ignited the intense interest in industry, such as virtual reality, recreational & professional (eSports) gaming, and computer‐aided design, and so on, to automatically generate compelling images from text‐based natural language descriptions. In this paper, we review the most recent development in the text‐to‐image synthesis research domain. Our goal is to provide value by delivering a comparative review of the state‐of‐the‐art models in terms of their architecture and design. The survey first introduces image synthesis and its challenges, and then reviews key concepts such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and deep convolutional encoder‐decoder neural networks (DCNNs). After that, we propose a taxonomy to summarize GAN‐based text‐to‐image synthesis into four major categories: semantic enhancement GANs, resolution enhancement GANs, diversity enhancement GANS, and motion enhancement GANs. We elaborate on the main objective of each group, and further review typical GAN architectures in each group. The taxonomy and the review outline the techniques and the evolution of different approaches, and eventually provide a roadmap to summarize the list of contemporaneous solutions that utilize GANs and DCNNs to generate enthralling results in categories such as human faces, birds, flowers, room interiors, object reconstruction from edge maps (games), and so on. The survey concludes with a comparison of the proposed solutions, challenges that remain unresolved, and future developments in the text‐to‐image synthesis domain.This article is categorized under: Algorithmic Development > Multimedia Technologies > Machine Learning

Perception and Evaluation of Buildings: The Effects of Style and Frequency of Exposure

The perception and evaluation of environmental and architectural spaces is an important concern of environmental psychology. Various environments ranging in scope from landscapes to room interiors have been studied, but old buildings have seldom been studied. As historical buildings make way for modern buildings, preservation of historic buildings has often been a hot issue. Proponents for preservation argue for the beauty, harmony and character of these buildings and that people derive satisfaction from them. This study examined the perception and evaluation of old-style buildings (constructed in late 18th to early 19th century) and modern-style buildings on three dimensions: aesthetic evaluation, organization, and friendliness. In addition, the effect of frequency of exposure on the ratings of these buildings as stimuli was studied. Two hundred and thirty-six university students rated each of the three old-style and three modern-style buildings on a set of fifteen bipolar adjectives scales. The frequency of exposure of each building was manipulated within subject. Repeated-measures analyses of variance revealed significant differences between the ratings. The modern-style buildings were evaluated as more aesthetically appealing and perceived as less organized and more complex than the old-style buildings. The effect of frequency of exposure was significant on the aesthetic evaluation dimension only. The relationship was in the form of an inverted U-shape function. However, no interaction effect was found. The results could be explained by Berlyne’s hypothesis (1960, 1970) and Zajonc’s mere exposure hypothesis (1968). Although the study was conducted in the 1980s, the psychological effects of perception and evaluation may remain the same. Given the scarcity and paucity of research on heritage buildings in the discipline of psychology, this paper reviews current research literature in the subject area, discusses if and to what extent the results still hold true, and proposes a way forward.

RETRACTED: Generic method for creating waterborne coatings with sub-ambient daytime cooling–Part II: Cooling effect under real working conditions and key physical properties

Abstract Current sub-ambient daytime radiative cooling (SDRC) designs are generally evaluated in a well-insulated apparatus to suppress heat convection and conduction with the surrounding environment. In a companion study, we experimentally demonstrated that serial waterborne coatings, which combined particle scattering, sunlight-excited fluorescence, and mid-infrared broadband radiation, exhibited pronounced SDRC effects on various substrates installed on a well-designed rooftop setup under different climatic conditions. In this study, we experimentally show that the coating with yellow-green fluorescence (termed as the FR coating) can achieve meaningful SDRC under real working conditions. When applied to a concrete scale-model building, the FR coating showed a significant SDRC effect compared with other substrates installed on the rooftop cooling device and an assembled corrugated steel house. The average decrease in sub-ambient temperature under direct sunlight was 10.1 ± 1.4 °C with a maximum value of 12.4 °C under a peak solar intensity of 999 W/m2. Moreover, during the coldest day in winter, the maximum sub-ambient temperature reduction during the midday hours was 5.3 °C. The maximum difference between the lowest temperatures of the coated and uncoated scale-model buildings’ room interiors was 1.5–1.6 °C. Therefore, excessive heating energy consumption in the winter might be completely compensated for or exceeded by the cooling energy savings in the summer in areas that require both heating and cooling depending on the season. Additionally, the coating possesses excellent weather and salt spray resistance, self-cleaning capabilities, and excellent visible appearance, which are essential for practical applications.

Passive solar design for energy efficiency in buildings in composite climate

Renewable energy sources offer an unlimited supply of energy. Solar energy can be utilized to supplement energy needs of a building either passively or actively. It is feasible to reduce consumption of energy usage for heating, cooling and lighting requirements of a building by adopting a climate sensitive approach for design of building elements like static sunshade, wall and roof. To study the effect of passive building elements in composite climate zone, four rooms were designed with a different combination of type of static sunshade, wall and roof. The static sunshade and brick cavity wall with brick projections were designed using sunpath diagram and shadow angles. Air cavity was introduced in the reinforced cement concrete (RCC) roof by laying hollow stoneware pipes. This paper presents theoretical and simulation studies to compare thermal performance of the four rooms. Theoretically, the four rooms were compared by steady state method based on total heat load in every month and on representative days in different seasons throughout the year. The extreme and most frequently occurring temperature values (mode) in every season were identified by obtaining the frequency distribution of the outdoor air temperature with the software SPSS Statistics (IBM Corp. 2012). Results showed that room with designed passive elements gained minimum heat in summer and moderate summer, while it lost minimum heat in winter and moderate winter. This shows the effectiveness of the designed passive elements in insulating the room interiors from the extreme climatic conditions. The rooms were also simulated using software Autodesk Ecotect Analysis 2011 and their performance was compared on a typical day in each month. Results showed that this software can be helpful for preliminary design to get an idea about the room performance that can help to create thermally comfortable indoor environment for the well being of occupants.

Boutique Hotel in Badung-Bali District Application of Luxurious Concepts in Exclusive Type Room Interiors

As the time passes by, people's lifestyles and tourism in Bali have developed rapidly. Business people have made ho-tels the main target in tourism because it means to providing services includes hotel, hostel or motel. Therefore this fa-cility is very important for developed of tourism in Bali. The ambience and concepts that are owned by the hotels, espe-cially in the rooms, are very influential to increase the number of tourists who wish to stay at the hotels, both from the in-terior design and atmosphere that is served and able to make tourists feel comfortable. Luxurious hotel is one of the hotels that has been loved by many people today and has developed throughout the hospitality industries, especially 5 stars standard hotels. Interior design with luxury concept has characteristics that can be seen from using materials of good quality and aesthetic value which are more than the value of its function. The application of this luxurious concept in the interior of hotel rooms such as several parts in the form of upper elements that use ceiling and hanging lamps and walls that use wooden partitions arranged vertically and use of materials with gold and neutral colors such as brown and white on most interior elements in the boutique hotel room. With the application of the luxurious concept, can create the ambience of the space become more elegant.
 Index Terms— luxury,boutique,hotel,interior.

Reconstructing the World’s Museums

Virtual exploration tools for large indoor environments (e.g. museums) have so far been limited to either blueprint-style 2D maps that lack photo-realistic views of scenes, or ground-level image-to-image transitions, which are immersive but ill-suited for navigation. On the other hand, photorealistic aerial maps would be a useful navigational guide for large indoor environments, but it is impossible to directly acquire photographs covering a large indoor environment from aerial viewpoints. This paper presents a 3D reconstruction and visualization system for automatically producing clean and well-regularized texture-mapped 3D models for large indoor scenes, from ground-level photographs and 3D laser points. The key component is a new algorithm called “inverse constructive solid geometry (CSG)” for reconstructing a scene with a CSG representation consisting of volumetric primitives, which imposes powerful regularization constraints. We also propose several novel techniques to adjust the 3D model to make it suitable for rendering the 3D maps from aerial viewpoints. The visualization system enables users to easily browse a large-scale indoor environment from a bird’s-eye view, locate specific room interiors, fly into a place of interest, view immersive ground-level panorama views, and zoom out again, all with seamless 3D transitions. We demonstrate our system on various museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City—one of the largest art galleries in the world.

The Mystery of the Wray Castle Library Panelling and Manchester Central Library

A quest for information concerning one of the missing room interiors of Wray Castle, a Gothic villa near Windermere in Cumbria, built for a Liverpool surgeon in the 1840s, curiously led the National Trust to the wonderfully contrasting neo-classical Manchester Central Library, designed by E. Vincent Harris and completed in 1934. A trawl through the records revealed a keen donor but a reluctant architect. Sixteenth-and seventeenth-century carved oak panels from the library of Wray Castle were removed and donated for use in the new Central Library by the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Sir Robert Noton Barclay, before he gave the castle to the National Trust. Archive material held at Manchester shows that Harris was reluctant to accept the panels, stating his reasons firmly, but that he was prevailed upon to do so and finally incorporated them some years later.

Effects of Interior Colors on Mood and Preference: Comparisons of Two Living Rooms

The purpose was to assess whether various colors across room interiors do, in fact, evoke different moods. Digital images of two imaginary living rooms were used as the experimental settings. For each of the experiments, the rooms' spatial characteristics were fixed, with only the colors changed: either warm, cool, or achromatic colors. As predicted, warm colors tended to produce stronger participant responses when rating the scene on "high arousal," "exciting," and "stimulating." Cool colors tended be associated with "not very arousing," but to be rated higher on "spacious" and "restful." It is generally assumed that cool and achromatic colors evoke calmer and more peaceful emotions. The study's results show that the spatial characteristics of the imaginary spaces themselves affected participants' responses only on measures of "happiness" and "vividness." Lastly, sex differences were also found, with women's ratings generally more positive than those of men.

Exploratory Studies into Possible Uses of Calcareous Dolostone

Excavations at habitation sites on the Shivwits Plateau, northwestern Arizona suggest that calcareous dolostone was regularly procured and used by the prehistoric inhabitants of that region. Calcareous dolostone, a soft, powdery carbonate rock composed of the minerals dolomite and calcite, is not local to these sites but crops out some four to six kilometers from the site. Its presence at the sites, therefore, indicates its intentional procurement for some as-yet undetermined purpose. To investigate how the material might have been used, a series of archaeological experiments were conducted to evaluate possible functions suggested by ethnographic analogy. Specifically, we evaluated the performance characteristics of powdered dolostone with reference to three activities: clay processing, pigment production, and the production of architectural plaster. Our results suggest that, as a clay additive, dolostone improves the texture of the sticky Shivwits Plateau clays; and that, when mixed with appropriate binders, it produces a durable pigment that could have been used as a paint. Our attempts to produce a waterproof and weather resistant plaster, in contrast, failed, although our results suggest that the dolostone could produce a thick whitewash appropriate for painting room interiors.