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?

Housing and Interior Design

Vocabulary

• 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:– 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