Towards a Sustainable Interior Design for Classrooms as an Approach to an Enriching Learning Environment for Design and Arts Students: King Faisal University as a Model

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in sustainable design to improve and treat interior space to reduce pollution and protect the environment. Given the global trend towards increasing the ability of interior design elements to adapt to environmental conditions to improve the efficiency of interior spaces, we found it important to conduct a study on the development of interior design for classrooms in the Art Education Department at the College of Education at King Faisal University. This study aimed to reveal the reality of classrooms in the Art Education Department and reach a proposed vision for designing classrooms to achieve environmental sustainability in the Art Education Department at King Faisal University. This study used the descriptive survey method and the descriptive analytical method due to their suitability for this study. The study sample consisted of approximately 100% of faculty members and 100% of students in the Art Education Department at King Faisal University. The results showed that the design standards required to be achieved to create environmental sustainability in the classrooms of the Art Education Department at King Faisal University from the point of view of faculty members and students were only slightly appropriate, and there was a noticeable agreement by the arbitrators specialized in the field of design and arts that the proposed concept for designing classrooms to achieve environmental sustainability was highly acceptable.