INTERIOR MORPHOLOGY AND THE RESPONSE OF SPACE PERCEIVERS | ||
| Engineering Research Journal | ||
| Article 17, Volume 172, Issue 0, December 2021, Pages 308-328 PDF (455.37 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/erj.2021.209816 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Moamen Nasser Abdallah* ; Shaimaa Mohamed Kamel; Haitham Abdelsalam Mohamed | ||
| Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Humans spend most of their time indoors as Studies found that Humans spend almost 90% of their time indoors. This means that space perceivers may be directly subjected to the interior design of these spaces and thus the interior design elements including the interior morphology may have an impact on the space perceivers. One of the most essential elements of interior design space morphology is contour. Contour studies have been argued for more than a century as researchers approached the contour preference with variable methods reaching different reasons of contour typology preference. The aim of this paper is to study and investigate the findings in contour preference studies in order to provide a clear understanding of the interior morphology and it’s impact on the response of the space perceivers. The methodology used is a comparative analysis method that investigates the past contour preference studies. The results found that the response of perceivers was impacted by contour typologies & interior morphology. There is always a preference for curvilinear contours compared to other typologies. Researchers argued that this preference for curvilinear contours may be due to the fact the perceivers found them more pleasing than other typologies. In Conclusion, It was found that past studies didn’t highlight enough the rectilinear contours. The interior settings contour preference studies lacked the investigation of contour quantity & repetition in addition to the function of space. This notion requires further investigation while taking into consideration all contour typologies and highlighting contour quantity and space function. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| nterior morphology; Contour typology; Contour preference; Curvilinear Contour; Space Perceiver | ||
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