@article{ref1,
title="Atmosphere at home: A qualitative approach",
journal="Journal of environmental psychology",
year="1986",
author="Pennartz, Paul J.J.",
volume="6",
number="2",
pages="135-153",
abstract="This study explores the phenomenon of atmosphere, specific to pleasantness in the home area. Information was collected during in-depth interviews with households living in public housing projects. Five themes in the experience of pleasantness were identified from a systematic, qualitative analysis (communicating with one another; being accessible to one another; relaxing after having finished work; being free to do what one wants; being occupied, absence of boredom). These themes were applied in an analysis of the way three spatial characteristics of dwellings (arrangement of and relationships between rooms; size of rooms; shape and physical enclosure of rooms) are related to the experience of pleasantness. It is argued that a potential-effective environment scheme is helpful in elucidating the way in which design characteristics contribute to such seemingly irrational phenomena as the experience of atmosphere in and the character of places.<p />",
language="",
issn="0272-4944",
doi="10.1016/S0272-4944(86)80014-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0272-4944(86)80014-7"
}