Translating across Disciplines: On Coding Interior Architecture Theory to Advance Complex Indoor Environment Quality

Pearce, Linda M.

doi:10.3390/buildings8070082

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“…Environmental quality (EQ) is an expression used to measure users' satisfaction with their surroundings [19,20]. It has also been defined as "the combination of environmental elements that interact with users of the environment to enable that environment to be the best possible one for the activities that go on in it" [21].…”

Section: Workplace Environmental Quality (Eq) or Ieqmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring the Spatial Dimensions of Social Sustainability in the Workplace through the Lens of Interior Architects in Jordan

Altamimi¹,

Iranmanesh²,

Denerel³

2023

Buildings

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In both industry and academia, sustainability has become a priority in the interior design and architecture industry, having a significant impact on society. However, most recent studies on building sustainability focus mainly on environmental and economic issues, with social sustainability often being complicated and overlooked in relevant research. This paper argues that there is a need for workplace design guidance that prioritizes parameters at the intersection of twenty-first-century workforce–corporate interests, embodying the notion of social sustainability within the built environment. Through this perspective, the physical environment is considered the container of its social content, and its features and characteristics have a direct impact on the quality of life and work for office workers. Although international currents in the age of globalization have stimulated tangible progress in the context of sustainability, the interior design of most design and architecture offices in Jordan suffers from an underrepresentation of the distinctive features of socially sustainable, user-welcoming interior spaces and environments. The current study explores the experiences of interior design professionals in Jordan through four windows of “Physiological Health and Comfort”, “Efficiency and Ergonomics”, “Privacy and Social Interaction”, and “Spatial Organization (Design)” from a quantitative perspective. A survey was developed to investigate these criteria and was administered among 145 full-time design professionals working in offices in Amman, Jordan. The study aimed to investigate the experiences of these practitioners in relation to their office work environment, with a focus on exploring Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), Quality of Work Life (QWL), and Quality of Life (QoL) from the perspective of social sustainability. Descriptive statistics, correlations, and regression models were employed to analyze the survey data and evaluate the findings. Overall, the study highlights the need for theoretical and practical incentives to promote the adoption of socially sustainable development in workplace design, particularly in the context of interior design in Jordan. By focusing on the experiences of interior design professionals with their workplace environment, this study provides valuable insights for the development of workplace design guidelines that prioritize social sustainability parameters within the built environment.

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Section: Workplace Environmental Quality (Eq) or Ieqmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An expression used to measure users' satisfaction. [19,20] The combination of environmental elements that interact with users. [21] The term is often used in studies on workplace user needs.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the Spatial Dimensions of Social Sustainability in the Workplace through the Lens of Interior Architects in Jordan

Altamimi¹,

Iranmanesh²,

Denerel³

2023

Buildings

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“…Most research on indoor environment quality is based on survey, field or laboratory experiments or case study; few explored its theories or related arguments. The paper contributed by Linda Pearce [19] fills in the gap. The paper used a theoretical method.…”

Section: Theory Attempts To Fill the Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Factors in Green Building: Building Types and Users’ Needs

Gou

2019

Buildings

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The Special Issue on “Human Factors in Green Building” addresses the design of indoor environment quality for users’ needs. The collected papers cover various building types and the research highlights the different needs of users. In working environments, employees’ stress is the main concern in the workplace design, especially for open plan offices where lack of privacy and over exposure to environmental stress have been reported. In residential environments, residents have great opportunities to adjust their environments to suit their needs; therefore, passive design such as natural ventilation is explored in residential buildings with climates such as cold or humid tropical. In healthcare environments, the papers in this issue are concerned with the needs of patients, especially the older adults who require special care. In learning environments, thermal and visual aspects are investigated for optimal comfort conditions and learning outcomes. The special issue demonstrates insightful critical thinking of indoor environment quality and proposes a new understanding for more practical design solutions. This editorial note is a brief review of the 12 papers, concluding with reflections about design of built environments to meet users’ needs.

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“…The development of architecture and increased attention focused on the issue of technical assurance of the quality of the indoor environment required the formulation of acoustic requirements focused on the indoor environment with the users of persons [32][33][34]. An important finding is the effects of excessive noise on humans, which differ according to the activity performed by a person at a given time and from individual characteristics, i.e.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of the Characteristics of External Walls of Wooden Prefab Cross Laminated Timber

et al. 2020

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A balanced combination of heat flows creates suitable conditions for thermal comfort—a factor contributing to the quality of the internal environment of buildings. The presented analysis of selected thermal-technical parameters is up-to-date and suitable for verifying the parameters of building constructions. The research also applied a methodology for examining the acoustic parameters of structural parts of buildings in laboratory conditions. In this research, selected variant solutions of perimeter walls based on prefab cross laminated timber were investigated in terms of acoustic and thermal-technical properties. The variants structures were investigated in laboratory but also in model conditions. The results of the analyses show significant differences between the theoretical or declared parameters and the values measured in laboratory conditions. The deviations of experimental measurements from the calculated or declared parameters were not as significant for variant B as they were for variant A. These findings show that for these analyzed sandwich structures based on wood, it is not always possible to reliably declare calculated values of thermal-technical and acoustic parameters. It is necessary to thoroughly examine such design variants, which would contribute to the knowledge in this field of research of construction systems based on wood.

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Translating across Disciplines: On Coding Interior Architecture Theory to Advance Complex Indoor Environment Quality

Cited by 4 publications

References 58 publications

Exploring the Spatial Dimensions of Social Sustainability in the Workplace through the Lens of Interior Architects in Jordan

Exploring the Spatial Dimensions of Social Sustainability in the Workplace through the Lens of Interior Architects in Jordan

Human Factors in Green Building: Building Types and Users’ Needs

Analysis of the Characteristics of External Walls of Wooden Prefab Cross Laminated Timber

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