The Interior Designer’s Role in Developing The Visual Appearance of Open Interior Architectural Spaces in New Residential Communities

When comparing Egyptian residential buildings during century, we find that they previously included private gardens, interior courtyards and upper balconies, which was a suitable environment for their residents. Eventually, residential and service congestion increased, and architectural requirements changed, so residents began to exploit creating a horizontal and vertical extension to provide shelter for family members, while preparing balconies to be internal gardens, which in turn were soon transformed into rooms due to economic changes. Hence, buildings began to lose their environmental components, and their residents complained lacking connection with the external natural environment.

With the end of World War One, modern Japanese engineers implemented rooftop gardens called The Japanese Hanging Gardens, and the mountainous nature of Japan was what imposed these gardens Idea. As such, Germany, Europe and the Whole world. These gardens are characterized by being far from ground insects and noise, in addition to the purity of the air and landscape view from above.

Therefore, the interior designer’s role is to find alternative solutions to perform human activities to achieve environmental balance for buildings and brings their occupants into the natural environment. The idea of environmental engineering emerged to ensure and maintain the safety of the environment, and naturally approaching to the indoor climate by relying on types of renewable energy, as well as providing a healthy environment for humans to preserve their humanity. So, the call was for environmentally friendly architecture such as ecological, solar, green, sustainable, interactive and other architecture types.