CONFORTO NO AMBIENTE DOMÉSTICO

O SIGNIFICADO PARA HOMENS E MULHERES?

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how comfort was perceived in the built environment, designed by architects and interior designers, before the Covid-19 pandemic. To reach the study objective, a questionnaire was developed with multiple choice answers, distributed digitally as well as in paper, to the participants, who are clients of architects and interior designers. In total, 280 interviews were conducted with people identified as clients of those professionals, and aiming at a definition of comfort. Despite the existence of a wide definition of comfort in the literature, answers to the first topic tend to wellbeing and coziness. Further, we identified a noticeable resemblance when answers were compared with those from a similar survey applied to low-income class individuals. A specific question - what provides you the sensation of comfort in your home? - showed a noticeable differentiation by gender. Men tend to answer the ambient temperature; and women, their home furniture. We point at the need to deepen studies comparing different income classes, as well as the studies in which the public is segregated by gender.