Gender differences necessities in interior design

الملخص EN

Interior Design has an important role in the realization of human needs within the internal spaces.

These requirements vary depending gender differences, whether these basic as physiological, biological and psychological.

Problem: the lack of awareness of gender differences in designing for various gender needs for doing activities.

Do women prefer some indoor designs without the other? Moreover, is it associated with psychological composition for women? Is the man bearing the harsh conditions in his work to make him more endurable when changing environmental conditions such as temperature and the level of sound and lighting...etc.? In addition, how are man's body and woman's ability adapting to different positions? and how is this relates to the type of activity practiced in the internal spaces? Therefore, the interior designers have to take into account the differences between the sexes and miscellaneous requirements in the interior design for wellbeing in internal spaces through variable control in properties of interior design elements.

Thus, psychological needs vary as physiological needs between men and women.

Nevertheless, is there a difference in feeling with comfort and satisfaction of the interior design elements between men and women? The determination of psychological and physiological differences between men and women may be the first steps to know the methods and requirements of comfort and well-being of both sexes.

A view to identifying the gender requirements and how it relates to physiological and psychological entity for them in the design of the interior spaces and through the analytical study of the differences between the sexes, as well as a questionnaire study.

Significance: explaining how to fit the interior elements to differences between both women and men.

By clarify the strong differences in the physical and psychological entity affect the comfort requirements.

In addition, interest in the achievement of what fits with that of individual species in terms of space and the dimensions of the appropriate spaces and its contents as well as the technological methods used and the requirements of psychological comfort.

The study serves those who seeking to understand gender differences and to use it as a starting point to illuminate the debate on gender specific outcomes with internal comfort and wellbeing.