Dissertation case study -Sustainability in Interior Design

Another article that I have read about Sustainability in Interior Design was by Grazyna Pilatowicz. In her article this author has explained how Sustainability has grown in the field of interior design nowadays. As Pilatowicz continues explaining, the time when she wrote her book called, ''Eco-Interiors:A Guide to Environmentally conscious Interior or Design''  in 1994 was the time where a change about the environment responsibility strategies were about time to be changed. Now that the book is out of print, within the last 10 years textbooks with the topic of Sustainable design has been developed into a broader field. The connection between sustainability in interior design has been developed within the theory and practice intention. Further than just satisfying the operation and aesthetics of the clients needs, it is also a necessity to recover the health, safety, physical and psychological well-being of the residents interior space. 

 Later in 2004 an editor in-chief of Metropolis magazine, Susan Szenasy has wrote about the need to apply the do-no-harm rule of the Hippocratic Oath, to the designers work. This was to withdraw attention to the designers to take responsibilities about the design decisions on the global environment and the creation of materials and products. The method of cradle-to-cradle S.Szenasy said, that analyses and developments can be taken to evaluate better on the use of materials and products, therefor the components and strategic accounting on the project will impact well on the global environment. (Grazyna Pilatowicz, 2015)

Regarding the saying of Grazyna Pilatowicz saying, ''well-designed healing environments must be determined by an understanding of physical and psychological human needs''. This strategy saying has a good explanation to make aware an interior designer to look up for these elements and would make sure to spot them in their client design brief. Another saying of Pilatowicz, is that ''Special attention given in the program to the selection and specification of materials and products to create healthy indoor environments''. Something that this saying reminded me of, is from my previous project researches is of Dr. Pere Castell Muixi, where he mentions the use of the latest update of multifunctional materials that are constructed with energy efficient system.


Reference:

Grazyna Pilatowicz, 2015. Vol. 8 No. 03 "Sustainability in Interior Design". Available at: <http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/SUS.2015.28999> [Accessed on 22 Nov 2016]