Achieving human needsthrough designing an interior design rating tool

Abstract EN

This study's purpose is to increase interior designers' sustainable attitude through suggesting a strategy for an Interior Design Rating Tool designed for that purpose.

Pearl Rating Tool of Estidama of Abu Dhabi is the first tailored to the Middle East region.

Its aim is to create more sustainable communities, cities and global enterprises and to balance the four pillars of sustainability: environmental, economic, cultural and social.

As sustainability in designing interior spaces is the same in importance as in designing and constructing buildings and designing communities; this study suggested a strategy for an Interior Design Pearl Rating Tool for Estidama.

Ten sustainable interior design criteria are included with the most important strategies to be met so that the interior designer should be aware of the four pillars of sustainability it has to balance between.

In addition, designers have to learn about the maximum credit score they can achieve through fulfilling human needs, wants and values in the built environment.

This strategy is designed to be presented to designers before starting their project in order for their project to be rated.