Interior Architecture/Design as a Interface in Sustainable Design

Sustainable design is triplle bottom line design approach that expresses the whole of the guiding methods that are ecologically environmentally-responsible, economically profitable and socially consider user needs and comfort. Interior architecture/design takes an important position in forming the social line of sustainable design philosophy by taking the decisions of the interior by meeting the comfort and needs of the user and also its environmental line with structure that makes the spaces reusable. This study emphasizes the social line of sustainable design and aims to discover how it is reflected to the users when the hotel is designed by considering the sustainable criteria in the interior design. For this purpose, criterias affecting interiors of two hotels that have received LEED Gold certification were examined. For research methodology were used multi case study and qualitative descriptive method. Research limitations are two hotels that have worked interior designers within the design team that have received Leed Gold certification in two different countries, and the first 150 user comments about these hotels in Tripadvisor.com. In the study the visual and verbal content of 350 comments made about these two hotels, were analyzed. As a result of the study, in summary, the implementation of sustainable design decisions in the hotel interior design with holistic perspective is to effective in promoting environmental awareness among the users who experience the space. Other results from this study can provide empirical evidence for post-use evaluation to hoteliers, interior designers and researchers.