Housing and Interior Design
The Personal Need of a Home
Warm – up Question:
A home is a place of great
importance in people’s lives.
What features your home
important to you?
Vocabulary
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Housing
Physical Needs
Physiological Needs
Universal Design
Assignment:
What do these words mean to
you?
Create your own definitions of
these words. Prepare to share
you ideas and thoughts.
5 – 7 minutes
Vocabulary
• Housing:
– any structure built for people to live in.
• Physical Needs:
– all the things the body needs to survive such as air,
sunlight, food, shelter, and sleep.
• Physiological Needs:
– the needs related to thoughts and emotions.
• Universal Design:
– designing homes to fit people with a wide variety of
physical needs and abilities.
Physical Needs of A Home
• Basic needs housing fills for people
– Shelter: a place to stay warm.
– Comfort: an appropriate amount of furnishing.
– Protection: a safe place between the family and
the “larger environment”
– Safety: from unwanted intrusions like burglars and
wild animals
Physical Needs of A Home
• A home’s style or décor should not be one’s first
thoughts when looking for a home. One should think
about themselves.
• A home should be a refuge that calms, pleases, and
makes no demand.
• Physical needs or demands on homes are layering
and growing, with design concern for safety.
• People today tend to be more concerned that there
homes are comfortable, organized and secure homes
that offer peace apart from the world.
Physical Needs of A Home
• When deciding on or decorating a home, what are
some questions to ask?
• As a class let’s generate a list of 10 questions to ask
when decorating a home.
Psychological Needs of A Home
• Coming home should feel like coming home to a big
hug.
• It should be a place that provides a calm, secure
place from the outside warm.
• 5 main needs for personal growth that a home can
provide:
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Emotional Needs
Social Needs
Privacy Needs
Intellectual Needs
Aesthetic Needs
Psychological Needs of A Home
• Emotional needs: an environment that provides enough
space, light, heat, and quiet, and reduces stress.
• Social needs: each family has different social needs and meet
social needs in a variety of ways.
• Privacy needs: as much as people need a social space, people
also need a place that allows them to be alone.
• Intellectual needs: a home can provide books, toys, games,
hobby materials and music to create a learning environment
that improves people’s minds.
• Aesthetic needs: the needs to have art and beauty around
them. Color, textures, and sounds help fill aesthetic needs.
Bringing them together helps individuals meet the need for
self-expression, for communicating who you are you.
Personal Needs of a Home
• Complete the following worksheets:
– Physiological Needs of a Home
– Physical Needs of a Home
Personal Needs of a Home
• As we view celebrity homes, identify the
following:
– At least three physiological needs of a each home
– At least three physical needs of a each home