The Effect of Interior Design and Isolation Room on Creating a Home Environment Safe for People’s Health

Abstract

`The house is the shelter in which a person spends the largest period of time, and performs his daily activities, and therefore the home environment has a direct impact on the health and life of a person, which requires us as designers, to develop an integrated plan that includes awareness of home risks and taking into account the provision of a healthy and sound home environment, because a sick home causes its occupants to suffer from many diseases that impede the performance of physical, psychological and social functions, causing them to lose connection with the environment and society., as many diseases related to the internal environment have spread as a result of negative effects such as polluted air or as a result of the use of industrial materials and products that release harmful gases such as manufactured carpets, wood, glue materials, pesticides, paints, finishing...etc. Where persons inside the home are affected psychologically and physiologically by the unhealthy home environment, which results in many diseases, such as respiratory diseases, pneumonia, digestive system diseases, and skin diseases transmitted by insects and rodents due to unhealthy environmental conditions and mismanagement of household waste. The home environment must be linked to the reality and conditions of society, as the importance of the home is no longer only in being a shelter, but rather it is important that it fulfills all urgent and changing human needs, as the world has recently witnessed many epidemics and diseases that result in health and psychological problems that afflict people and other problems. Economic, political and social that hinder all aspects of the normal life of society, and therefore it is important for us in the field of interior design to take into account the presence of spaces designated for the home quarantine process, which is considered one of the most important strategies that can be followed to achieve public health in society and help prevent the spread of highly contagious diseases and pandemics among the rest healthy family members, and avoiding its spread among the rest of the community, as it relies on isolating sick people from non-infected people in order to prevent the spread of diseases.

Keywords

• healthy interior
• design
• isolation room
• safe home environment