Evaluation of the Perceptional Specifications of Color in Interior Space by Color Therapy Attitude: Patient Rooms in Healing Environments

Color is one of the design elements, which is discussed comprehensively from different viewpoints, from aesthetics to medical perspectives. Color has played crucial roles in changing people’s condition in different places both physiologically and psychologically. Applying color potentials assist spaces to be more successful in their functional purposes. This study is a primary effort to investigate the effects of color on human, in both color therapy and interior architecture and to help propose the best color application of the interior architecture of patient rooms in healing environments. In this research, information about the Color therapy, color`s fundamentals and effects on interior architecture are collected from credible architectural documents through library research. The investigated information is evaluated through a qualitative document analysis and presented via descriptive tables. Interior architectural references clarified the major role of color in human wellbeing, and present many explorations about color applications in interior spaces and patient rooms. Color therapy reveals the process of effecting color on human body and psyche based on chakras and their related colors. This information is combined in evaluation part by the researcher and some applications are proposed. Interior architectural sources proposed many color schemes in interior spaces, healing environment and patient rooms. In the evaluation part, after the analysis of the interior space and color therapy, there are some similarities in some cases with color therapy in aspect of physiological effects of color on special issues. In the cases that interior architectural sources suggest no color for special illness, color therapy can cover this absence for particular disease. Accordingly, Color therapy can aid interior architecture to employ color with new criterion to achieve purposes of the space, especially healing environments to play positive role in user’s condition and satisfaction in practice. Keywords: Color Therapy, Chakra, Interior Space, Healing Environment, Patient Room