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In the era of progressive technological and social development, housing environment should respond to actual demands of modern society, with the idea of flexibility and adaptability as the key parameters of sustainable living. Application of the flexible elements in the interior provides a variety of spatial interpretations of the residential unit that can be determined by an architect or by users, depending on the applied design concept. The degree of achieved spatial flexibility will depend on the degree of independence of moveable elements within the unchanging structure of the apartment. Appropriate selection and analysis of the certain number of projects and realizations in the field of flexible housing, points to the diversity of motives of flexible elements application and considers the impact of applied design approach on the interpretation of residential environment. Different social, political and economic circumstances in which the individual examples emerged are also taken into consideration.

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Interior design is a complex process which includes numerous steps from the concept development to the design realization. Numerous factors affect the design of interior architecture of a space. One of the basic quality factors of a realized interior design is color. Complex nature of colors and their impact on the art, culture, psychology and religion has been often studied. Color is observed as a fundamental quality of our visual perception. There are numerous developed theories and assumptions related to the esthetic comfort offered by colors, and to their effect on human psyche. The paper addresses the importance of colors in the interior design. This includes housing buildings, but also public buildings such as administrative, hospital, educational institutions. The importance of usage of specific colors in day and night zones of housing areas is analyzed. The experiments conducted in this field, showing the wide range of effects in various aspects of human life are considered. Based on the analysis of the conducted experiments, conclusions are drawn about the implementation of colors in the public areas interior. Their effects on productivity and disposition of employees, recovery of patients in hospitals and efficiency of student work in schools have been shown. The goal of the paper is analyzing effects of colors used in an interior on the users of the corresponding area.

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