Wellbeing in Interiors

Chapter 14Materials and textures

1. Materials
2. Textures
3. Measuring the effect and amount of texture

We could approach this issue, the impact and importance materials and textures have in interiors’ impact on occupant wellbeing, by bringing up examples of spaces where they are seen to lack these, spaces such as jails. If you are a fan of London’s Southbank Centre or any contemporary art gallery around the world, you may wonder why the lack of material variation or softness, is associated with ill-being. And you would be correct. What this chapter aims to inform is why material variation and the textures of materials, support wellbeing of users one way and not another. There is not one bad texture or material type but the incorrect combination of these ...