Architectural Interior Design for Durability of Interior Components. Material and Intangible Contexts of Selected Durability-Supportive Design Schemes

The problem of durability is mostly situated in theoretical and practical dimensions within the discipline of architecture in the context of environmental sustainability. Technical durability covers the subject of forming new buildings through embodied energy in building technologies, building materials, and products. The second identified durability framework, defined as emotional durability, concerns the enhancement of the relationship between consumers and products. The paper discusses the interior architectural design for the durability of interior components. The article identifies the supportive design methods to shape interior components while enhancing their durability placed within the two frameworks mentioned above, and analysed in material and intangible aspects, both reflecting the necessity for inclusion of the postulates of environmental sustainability. The research paper recognizes the interior architectural design for adaptive reuse and responsiveness-oriented scheme of biophilic design as supportive schemes for the interior architectural design given the durability of interior components within the material, as well as intangible aspects. The results of the study reveal that the intangibility-related factors dominate in the analysis of responsiveness and adaptive reuse as design schemes to support the durability of constitutive interior components. In particular, the user’s emotional engagement, gained through the experience of natural building materials or secondary products introduced into the component’s structure, is noticeable in both models. The cultural connotations are among the intangible factors common for the discussed models as well. The quotations from the past engage the users and enclosed within the component’s volume, complement and enrich further satisfactory use of components, thus influencing the longevity of spatial objects featuring the inner spaces.