Employing Biophilic Concept to Solve closed Interior Spaces Case study (Collage Restaurant)

Document Type : Original Article

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Decore department - interior Architecture - faculty of fine arts - Alexandria university - Alexandria - Egypt

Abstract

Abstract :

We spend most of the time inside closed interior spaces, which statistics indicate that it reaches more than 80% of our lives in interior spaces, and since interior design is the most important role in shaping spaces and human behavior, as "Winston Churchill" said, "we shape our buildings and after that they form Our buildings are our shape" and spending long periods in enclosed spaces is a necessity in that era of residential places, study and work places, and other public and private internal spaces. For the function assigned to him and with the industrial and technological development and the materiality of the current era and its pressures, light has been shed on the natural and the biophilic trend, which has existed since the beginning of man. In the interior spaces to achieve more efficient, functional and effective interior spaces, especially if they are closed spaces.

This is supported by an applied study on the college canteen at a university, where male and female students spend most of the time inside the classrooms, classrooms, and laboratories. Therefore, we need spaces with positive energy, promoting human behavior and mental health, and creating vital, healthy spaces that relieve burdens and pressures. Here The role is evident through the study of the different biological design patterns emanating from and related to nature, and how to employ them in the interior design effectively and efficiently, by rehabilitating and designing the restaurant with a biophilic design with a special design identity.

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Keywords: - biophilic design - closed spaces - nature - advanced technology - interior design - sensory organs - Biophilic Concept.

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