Emotional Design (Master Thesis Research)
video: intro
We live with attention, impression and feeling. By feeling our environments with our senses, we get familiar with a space. Our memories are attached to these surroundings, with their dimensions, echoes, smell and light/shadows. We grow up, we learn, we relate to these memories and behave with them. What we experience in our habitat will eventually reflect on our behavior. Images stocked in our brain are stimuli to our perception. Architects are aware of, how the built habitats influence our behaviors and senses and they take this power into consideration when they want to design. However, architects should collaborate with other professions to get a deeper knowledge on how the brain will react.
publication
"Emotional Design in Architecture" WAS PUBLISHED at the Salk Institute' AT THE ANFA 2016 "connections: bridgesynapses" Conference among other research and a collaboration of Architects and NEUROSCIENCES.
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ABSTRACT
One study suggested that the color red in a room would improve one’s short-term memory thinking; the color blue will heighten one’s creativity levels. Another study indicated that low-ceiling rooms will have the same effect on the brain as the color red, and that high-ceiling rooms render similar results in the brain as the color blue. If architectural features can affect cognitive processes, it would be interesting to find out how they can affect mood levels. Such a research study would expose a group of participants to stimuli which will serve as a baseline – a neutrally shaped room, which allows a normal amount of light and the room should composed of neutral colors – and then expose that same group to different types of stimuli which will vary architecturally. Participants’ moods will be rated after exposure to the baseline stimuli, as well as after each experimental architectural exposure, by their completing the Brief Mood Introspection Scale (BMIS). This scale is a standardized psychological test that measures mood levels. To map the activity of our brain, it would be even interesting to map it, to analyze its activities in response to stimulus. All these studies that were performed by different investigators will be used as aid in construction of this research and in establishing a clear relationship between emotions and designs in addition to establishing a clear conclusion on my study topic to edit.
SANTA MARIA DEL MAR FACADE
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passeig de sant joan
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Architecture and Neuroscience were two separate disciplines, until it was found that the brain is constantly adapted to the environments we are living in. Focusing on healthy environments, a well-designed built environment with principles of neuroscience, reduces patient stay, and even plays part in treatment such as retrieving old memory and brain stimuli.
Neuroscience study behavior and brain, and Architects should use the inputs in design. Learning how our brain works with perception will lead to new developments on behalf of users in design. New treatments combined with architectural approaches give individuals a pleasant stay, shortens the healing process (in a case of a hospital) and even can be involved with environmental treatment.
The relationship between architecture and neuroscience is understood with our basic activities in which we use our five senses to perceive the environments. Perception also adapts to our navigation in space, and neuroscience shows how physical environment affects our cognition, problem managing ability and ‘moods’. Understanding these principles can guide us architects to design built environments serving better spatial orientation, reinforcing cognitive abilities and minimizing negative energy. The aim of it is to define design parameters with principles of neuroscience, which establishes spaces that encourage ‘memory’, improve ‘cognitive abilities’, avoid ‘stress’ and stimulate the brain.
Neuroscience study behavior and brain, and Architects should use the inputs in design. Learning how our brain works with perception will lead to new developments on behalf of users in design. New treatments combined with architectural approaches give individuals a pleasant stay, shortens the healing process (in a case of a hospital) and even can be involved with environmental treatment.
The relationship between architecture and neuroscience is understood with our basic activities in which we use our five senses to perceive the environments. Perception also adapts to our navigation in space, and neuroscience shows how physical environment affects our cognition, problem managing ability and ‘moods’. Understanding these principles can guide us architects to design built environments serving better spatial orientation, reinforcing cognitive abilities and minimizing negative energy. The aim of it is to define design parameters with principles of neuroscience, which establishes spaces that encourage ‘memory’, improve ‘cognitive abilities’, avoid ‘stress’ and stimulate the brain.
BARCELONA PAVILION
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
la sagrada familia
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC)
VIDEO: Introduction
The environment we live in dictates our emotions. Our surrounding evokes particular emotional responses, these ranges from emotions of love, friendships, satisfaction and all the 64 emotions according to psychologists. Each of the emotions is influenced by certain design; this therefore requires certain design features to be created so that positive emotions can be provoked. Research shows that human emotions are related to various experiences of life, this therefore shows correlation between NEUROSCIENCES and architectural elements and how they can influence our experiences. The thesis of this research is to explore the correlation between design features and emotions and how architectures can design elements that can positively influence our emotions. Moreover, the study will determine how different environments help to shape our emotions and general WELL-BEING.
Most of the architectural components do not fit neatly under a single classification, however frequently have angles from a few classes. The objective of this paper is to abridge and classify how structural planning serves as an administrative power in our lives through a wide range of emotions in architectural designs. This paper is looking to build up a meta-hypothesis of structural planning or a combination of all idea on construction modeling as an impact on people's behavior and emotions. My endeavors will concentrate on incorporating the current exploration to give a wise point of view on the different ways structural engineering influences us. This leads me to utilize the terms construction modeling, structures, and the assembled environment in examining the material world.