Emotional Design and its Effect on Person’s Activity in Residential Buildings during Lockdown

Abstract

Objectives: The study aims to develop interactive design strategies and criteria that connect people’s feelings with interior design’s sides in their living environment in a highly acceptable, functional, and aesthetic way to improve their activities during a curfew.

Methods: The methodology used descriptive and analytical methods, where Information was collected through distributing questionnaires, conducting personal interviews, and analyzing similar cases to collect data about emotional design and its impact on individual activity in residential environments.

Results: The Results of the study showed that the relationship between individual emotions and integration with interior design elements creates a highly efficient, effective, and creative emotional design in residential environments. Residential environments that consider the feelings and emotions of those who use them work to increase a sense of loyalty and belonging to these environments, as well as create a lasting mental and emotional effect on those who use them by utilizing the elements of interior design to create an emotional environment and effective design solutions. Finally, the interior designer contributes to the creation of an emotional and positive feeling among these individuals, as well as a state of satisfaction and acceptance of the residential space in which they live.

Conclusions: In the light of the results of the study, the researchers recommend that the designer should work to promote positive emotions within closed residential spaces by using design mechanisms and techniques that can stimulate individuals' senses and positive feelings by creating a harmonious formulation between interior design elements and the entire residential space.