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PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN INTERIOR DESIGN

SUBJECT CODE: ECM 4333

DATE BRIEF: 27/9/2018

DURATION: 31/10/2018

NAME: NUR FITRAH ARBAI’YAH BINTI ROZMAN

STUDENT ID: SUKD1701589

PROGRAMME: BA (HONS) INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

FALCULTY: FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

SUBJECT: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY OF INTERIOR DESIGNER

LECTURER: MISS ATIKAH GHAZALI

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CONTENT

TOPIC NO. OF PAGE

Introduction………………………………………………………………………… 3

Explanation the type of interior design……………………………………………… 3

Psychiatric consult room……………………………………………………………… 5

Health, safety and welfare……………………………………………………………. 6

Safety and security towards psychiatric consult space ……………………………… 6

Affects the community of the profession……………………………………………. 7

Importance……………………………………………………………………………. 8

Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………… 9

References……………………………………………………………………………. 11
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Introduction:

Interior design is the quality of organizing and planning the course of action and execution of
compositional internal parts. This may sound direct, regardless, there are unending unpretentious
segments to think about when organizing inside spaces, for example, closeness prerequisites,
trademark impacts, furniture, foundations and hardware, and complete choices, adjacent the crucial
measures of course of action: balance, feature, musicality, degree and scale, concordance and
solidarity. The manner by which these motivations behind interest and standards are joined and
collaborate make the general structure of a space.

Interior design is the completed eventual outcome of a neighborly condition, in which inside's
visual viewpoints are joined with the structuring with the genuine target to give an answer that is
satisfying to both personality and body — and fitting to the exercises performed there. For
instance, the structure of business spaces, for example, workplaces, trades focus, retouching
workplaces, retail foundations, and schools deal with the methodology of limit and business task
before rich concerns.

Explanation the different types of interior design:

As interior designer we are all of a sort in the way in which that we approach our work with our
own special arrangement style. It is nothing unforeseen by then, that the arrangement world is
contained such an expansive number of considerations, characters, personas and styles.

Traditionalist:

The Conformist engineer is excited by the before ages. Checking heavier furniture and fittings is
extraordinarily customary for this sort of draftsman. Conformists see their structure as an exhibit
of shielding and furthermore creation. Their customary style is done with class and limit, and
moreover shining specifying.
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Explorer:

As an explorer you value changing internal parts into a space that has authenticity and freedom.
The look and feel you make relies upon taking yourself and your client on a voyage inside an
explicit space. As this sort of draftsman, you make amazing stories to ensure refinement exists
with the space.

Nurturer

The Nurturer arranges making warm straightforward inside spaces and ensures that their plans are
live able and loveable. These makers love to design family homes that vibe like supporting spaces.

The Illusionist

Illusionists are depicted as a 'man who performs traps that sell out the eye'. The Illusionist organizer
does definitely this with their use of shocking inside upgrade styling, using solid enunciation pieces
to make an explicit situation or tendency inside an inside. A warmth for using clarification pieces
traps the eye to focus on an express segment of an inside and can make or reconsider an example.

Philosopher

The Pragmatist designs inside spaces that are overflowing with honest purposes of intrigue and
perspectives that will forsake you in stunning. Your moderate perspective crossed with your extra
knowledge makes spaces that make your client delay and think about on the inspiration and
significance behind the structure.

As we are interior designer we have selected a psychiatric consult room to describe in details
as they are at following:

Achieving good design is not only by having ‘nice’ and expensive features inside a space, but it is
more to that. More importantly, achieving good design should feature sustainable and positive vibe
includes healthy in the environment. Creating a sustainable design inside the building is something
achievable with studied and proven research but implementing a positive and healthy environment
is the most complex process for interior designer profession. That’s because interior designer has
to study the behavior of human in some certain space and try to change it to provide better solution
for the person’s behavior through the space that has been design for them.
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Psychiatric consult room:

FIS Design company who is specialized in residential design would like to take the opportunity by
proposing a better solution for Serene Psychiatric & Psychological Services in their Psychiatric
Consult Room. Designing a psychiatric hospital by improving the environment into something
adaptable to the unwell mental patient is called therapeutic environment. To achieve therapeutic
environment, some studies has been conducting and most that can be concludes that therapeutic
environment should resemble ’typical residential’ atmosphere. These is where the complex process
begins, some designers would argue of the different background of patients may have different
views of what is home like setting, while in stakeholders, which is the client may look at the
approach will be too costly.

Building a better place for the inpatient to have a good impact on their environment is the new
approach of treatment and also business profit. According to Director and Consultant Forensic
Psychiatrist of Hospital
Bahagia Ulu Kinta, Dr
Rabaiah Mohd Salleh,
“Society should aware that
mental illness can be treated
but not heal. -This kind of
disease mostly can be cured
by early treatment-mostly the
constantly need to be under
medication and weekly to
yearly consultation”. This
shows that patient who likely
to have their symptoms diagnosed late will always come back to the consult room as recover rates
are pretty low. As in interior designer profession, it is an obligation to implementing health, safety
and welfare inside our design. By the guide of using proven research report issues by International
Interior Design Association (IIDA), American Society of Interior Design (ASID), Council for
Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA), Interior Design Educator Council (IDEC), International
Design Club (IDC), and National Council for Interior Design Qualifications (NCIDQ); It is
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believed that the highest contributions to health, safety and welfare were found in the human
environment needs, interior construction, and products and materials categories.

Interior design profession protects the health, safety and welfare:

The activity of interior designer goes far past picking the color of the walls, the texture of surfaces
and the material of flooring. In any case, while that is apparent to those in the structure arrange,
various outside the circle may be less aware of Inside Designs' range. The reality of the situation
is, inside makers are fundamental to general prosperity and security in the created condition, also
as organizers, authorities and improvement specialists are. Open security is impacted in each entire
of a space, and how these consummations react in the midst of ordinary utilize, and furthermore
on fire or distinctive cataclysms, is one of our most essential assignments," says Karen Carbo,
IIDA, a person from the Louisiana State Driving gathering of Inside Originators who works for
Blitch Knevel Designers in New Orleans. Past that, the decisions inside makers make for some
arbitrary assignment — paying little respect to whether corporate, settlement, human
administrations, private, retail or something unique — impact air quality, building accessibility
and fire codes, and ergonomics. Thusly, it's fundamental that inside originators "deal with the
calling and educate individuals by and large concerning why it is essential to utilize the reasonable
individual with the right preparing and capacities to play out the fitting endeavors.

Safety and security towards a psychiatric consult space:

The potential suicide of patients is an exceptional worry of psychiatric offices. The office space
must not accidentally make open doors for suicide. Configuration to address this and other
wellbeing and security issues incorporates:

 Pipes, electrical, and mechanical gadgets intended to be carefully designed

 Utilization of breakaway shower-poles and bars, no garments snares
 Disposal of all hopping chances
 Control of doorways and exits by staff
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 Arrangement for patient room ways to be opened by staff if there should arise an
occurrence of crisis
 Covered glass for windows in inpatient units
 Fiber-fortified gypsum board for dividers
 Uncommon highlights in separation rooms to kill all open doors for self-damage,
incorporating outward opening entryway with no inside equipment
 Watchful thought of fitting areas for get bars and handrails. Where they should be utilized
in unsupervised spaces, and patient profile legitimizes additional consideration, unique
plans are accessible that block their utilization for self-damage.
 Take out the utilization of entryway handles and knobs
 Strong material determined roofs

How the interior design profession affects the community:

Interior design is about impressively more than organizing for beautiful appearance. It needs to
consider correspondence and the key of client experience: how a psychiatric spaces work; how
they pass on a message and how individuals respond to this while coordinating their consistently
lives; and even how people move around space and interface with articles or people. Right when
inside predominant structure culture, people consider the look of plan; the certified significance of
spaces and places is created by inside experts. These are people with the ability to join building,
improvement, workmanship and mind investigate in making spaces; they should consider the basic
course of action of spatial structure.

Interior design phycology is a field inside normal psychology, which concerns the environmental
impacts of the common conditions of within. It is a prompt examination of the association between
a circumstance and how that condition impacts the lead of its tenants, with the win of boosting the
beneficial outcomes of this relationship thinking about the psychological impact of a space.

It can feel outstandingly energizing and stimulating to walk around a space by smelling a dazzling
aria or just by feeling another vibe that feels welcoming. Then again, it can feel upsetting while
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walking around a sparkly, cleaned marble floor, walking continuously and hesitant not knowing
whether the floor is wet or if it is just the look of the floor. These enthusiastic responses are not by
shot and even the scarcest nuances may imbue a sentiment of uneasiness and burden. The
proportionate can be said of transitional rooms since they can trigger a stunning eager response

Organized interior spaces can bolster work benefit, social joint effort. Present a sentiment of
solidarity, prosperity, loosening up, despite various other significant work space components.
Inside Structure acknowledges various variables into record as possible with the true objective to
enhance the execution, profitability and the success that the space can vivify, without surrendering
particular and physical essentials.

Importance of interior designing profession:

Interior design isn't simply worried about how your home will resemble, however it lays more
weight on making the space more practical in light of the fact that it is frequently observed that
where a little habitation may have simply everything pitch immaculate with decent inside plan and
space sparing traps; a major home then again can be regularly observed inadequately inside
planned and the space will show up outwardly compelled. In this way, the job that inside
structuring plays isn't less essential than the engineering of your home with regards to arranging
your inside plan.

Interior designing is quite significantly something other than picking hues, lightning and choosing
textures as it is additionally about completely changing people and enhancing their method for
living. Every one of the subtle elements of your home from little to huge, for example, hues on the
dividers, regardless of whether your ought to have blinds or window ornaments, kinds of furniture,
lighting most appropriate to your place, what adornments you should purchase, the situation of
different rooms, and so forth are given due significance. So bamboozle everything by changing
your dull space into an energizing spot which alleviates your spirit and eases your pressure
following a tiring day.
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Inside structuring give tastefully satisfying and proficient answers for the better utilization of the
space being referred to. The point of inside structuring is to enhance the client encounter by dealing
with the space better.

Fundamentally, it gives individuals a chance to appreciate a space and enhance their personal
satisfaction through plan and embellishment. Inside planning requires amazingly innovative and
capable pool of individuals.

Conclusion:

This examination investigated specialists as clients of structure with a region fit point of view. Its
objective was to see lead by which psychiatrist utilize their consult room space to prop their
competency and heading over remedial exchanges with client. All around social occasions and
substance examinations uncovered that physical highlights the interior design of a psychiatric
consult room offer favorable circumstances for what specialists saw were their very own unique
necessities and moreover those of their clients. A few trademark reactions enabled the tending to
of necessities and, henceforth, a fit or congruency between an office and a counselor. Given the
centrality of physical highlights in the structures of psychiatric work spaces to address pleasing
issues, fashioners and agents should develop the amassing of human organizations conditions to
join psychiatric workplaces. Such an upgraded definition would suit issues remarkable to
psychiatric room and permit examinations between the work spaces and other therapeutic
conditions. Psychiatrist whose workplaces did not address their issues clear these spaces as
engaging for their customer base in any case, not impeccable. The vast majority of the pros were
housed in office space that they depicted as not really perfect for strong exchanges. Psychiatrist
considered certain course of action highlights basics for a sound, recuperating condition and for
positive results among clients. For instance, specialists trusted that a calm condition, pro over the
structure of the workplace, perspectives of nature including water and trees, indoor plants,
moreover, scene masterpieces were restorative, reduced weight, and empowered steady exchanges.
Fluorescent lighting ought to be kept up a key detachment from as it prompts customers'
hopelessness and uneasiness. Intriguing central focuses whose content is intentionally
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questionable and can be committed to potentially negative elucidations ought not be showed up.
Content with seating outlines must meet proxemic prerequisites yet not be so charming as to affect
lethargy. Two or three clinicians supported reasonable shades so as not to influence nervousness
related with dynamic tones, for example, red and orange. As a rule, agents' workplaces related with
customers' opinion of vision. In this manner, the structures of different working situations were
underused as material, sound-related, and olfactory parts inside treatment and examination. The
physical course of action of clinicians' workplaces was in like way underused as a pointer of
transferences. Steady with earlier organization, different inspectors would utilize the nonverbal
practices of customers' seating inclinations as markers of a restorative session's progress. One
theoretical social consultant utilized a supper table around which he and his customers sat to round
out tests moreover, engineer homework errands. Another utilized customers' relationship with
sensitive toys as pointers of reckless, disguised emotions. In any case, treatment and confirmation
were routinely dedicated to talking and sitting, not playing or acting.
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