The Ratio of Form and Space in Nature Design process

Forough Amoian¹

1) member of Faculty of Arts & Architecture, University of Mazandaran, Email:

IOI Code : XYBG-AZZFC
Publication : International Conference of Civil, Architecture and Urban Planning Elites(cau2016.com)
Abstract :
    The study reported in this paper addresses image board usage and environmental sustainability in the early stages of product development. Simulating the early stages of product development, image boards for three ship interior concepts were created based on different principles for environmentally sustainable design. The boards were used in interviews to elicit feedback on the concepts and to draw conclusions about how consumers make inferences about sustainability. The results of the interviews suggest that consumers infer sustainability from the appearance of interiors in a number of different ways and that image boards can elicit a range of inferences. However, the results also show that the inferences consumers make can differ widely and it is hard to control what inferences they make from an image board. Building on these results, the use of image boards in environmentally sustainable product development is discussed and hands-on advice for their use as an interview stimulus is outlined.

Keywords : nature patterns sustainable form space