WHAT TO CONSIDER TO CONSCIOUSLY COME TO ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION
1. EXTERNAL RESOURCES STRENGTHEN OR WEAKEN
DEPRIVES OF RESOURCES
HOW ARE NEEDS SATISFIED?
PROVIDES RESOURCES
SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
HOW MENTAL STATES ARE CREATED? MENTAL PROCESSES, THE SENSE OF…
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
PATHOGENIC
<COUNTERACTS
UNDER-STANDING THE FEELING ABOUT ONESELF & ONES LIFE
SUPPORTS>
SALUTOGENIC
ORGANISM, HABITS, GOALS CURRENT STATE, LIMITS OF PLASTICITY
HOW BRAIN PROCESSES WORK?
ORGANI-SATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
WEAKENS POSITIVE FEELINGS ABOUT ONESELF
HOW BODILY SYSTEMS WORK?
STRENGTHENS POSITIVE FEELINGS ABOUT ONESELF
2. BRAINS AND BODIES INTERACT CONSCIOUSLY AND UN- CONSCIOUSLY
How the brain and the body monitor, evaluate, assess and react to the physical spaces, and create the sense of well-being or disease.
READ
PROCESS / FILTER
REACT
Room config
Proprio-ception
Interoception,
Exteroception
Hormones
Form, colour, material
Intuition,
Metaphors,
Symbols,
Memory,
Expectations
Thoughts, emotions,
behaviours
Light,
air, sound,
smell
Embodied simulation,
Bodily reaction
3. BUILT ENVIRONMENT CAN ENRICH AND SUPPORT
SOCIAL
COLOURS
MOOD
MATERIALS
SENSORY
ROOM CONFIG
RESTORATION
NATURE
ATTENTION
SOUND
BRAIN MECHAMISMS
PLACE ATTACHMENT
WELL-BEING
FACTORS
IN PLACE
SPACE
PROCESSING
DRIVERS OF POSITIVE EXPERIENCE
INTER
CONNECTIONS
CONTROL
PERSONAL LEVEL
RELATIONS
AIR
MOTOR
IMAGINED PROPERTIES (WEIGHT, MOVEMENT)
CONCEN-
TRATION
LIGHT
COGNITIVE
3. BIOPHILIA
SHELTER
COLOURS
PROSPECT
MYSTERY
ROOM
CONFIG
LINK
WITH
EXTERNAL
SYSTEMS
MATERIALS
FAMILIARITY
COMPLEXITY
PRESENCE OF NATURE
NATURE
LINK
WITH NATURE
ORDER
PERIL
LIGHT
NATURAL
ANALOGUES
SOUND
SAFETY
SOCIAL LIFE
AIR
(SMELL,
HUMIDITY,
TEMP)
PRIVACY
3. MECHANISMS OF PERCEPTION AND MAKING SENSE OF SPACE
SENSE WITH ALL SENSES
COLOURS
PROCESS PHYSICAL
& MENTAL
PROPERTIES
MATERIALS
CONSTANTLY SCAN AND PROCESS
ROOM
CONFIG
CREATE
MENTAL MAPS
AND TERRITORIES
INTUIT
MOVEMENT
BECOME ATTACHED
SOUND
PROPRIO-CEPTION
INTUIT
PROPERTIES
& FILTER WITH
OUR ABILITY
SPACE
PROCESSING
SEARCH
FOR
PATTERN
INTERO-
CEPTION
INTER
CONNECTIONS
INTUIT ORIGIN
EMBODIED
COGNITION & EMBODIED
SIMULATION
READ METAPHORS,
SYMBOLS, SENSATION TRANSFER.
AIR
PERCEIVE CONTEXT-DEPENDENT + INTEROCEPTION
IMAGINED PROPERTIES (WEIGHT, MOVEMENT)
HAVE PRECONCE-PTIONS & EXPECTATIONS
LIGHT
PERCEIVE CONSCIOUSLY AND UNCONSCIOUSLY
4. PLACE ATTACHMENT
4 STEPS (ADDING - ANCHORING)
COLOURS
IS CONNECTED TO NATURE
MATERIALS
CONTINUITY
ROOM
CONFIG
FULFILS OUR NEEDS
WILL TO KEEP CONTACT
WITH
IS FREE FROM POLLUTION
SOUND
PLACE- CONGRUENT
CONTINUITY
SEARCH FOR WHEN STRESSED
PLACE ATTACHMENT
WILL TO PRESERVE
SETTLEMENT
IDENTITY
INTER
CONNECTIONS
OFFERS INTERACTION AND DIVERSITY
FEEL BOND
UNIQUE AMONG OTHERS
AIR
FAMILIARITY
(LINGERING)
IMAGINED PROPERTIES (WEIGHT, MOVEMENT)
FEELS SAFE
LIGHT
6 GRADES (SUPERFICIAL - CULTURAL)
5. PERSONAL DIFFERENCES
BELIEFS ABOUT OURSELFS
PHYSIO-
LOGICAL
PRE
CONCEPTIONS
PSYCHO-LOGICAL
SOCIAL RELATIONS
LOGICAL THINKING
AFFECT-
ABILITY
COGNITIVE STYLE
CULTURE
REPTILE
BRAIN
BIASED
BELIEFS
PERSONAL LEVEL
STRENGTHS
THE “TRUE SELF”
INDIVIDUAL
PERSONALITY
VALUES
MOTIVATION
SOCIAL
SELF CONTROL
FUNCTIONAL
BODY/ SENSORY ABILITY
DYSFUNCTIONAL
ADJUSTMENT TO SOCIETY
6. BRAIN AND BODY MECHANISMS KNOWN TO INTERACT WITH ARCHITECTURE
AMYGDALA
COLOURS
PREFRONTAL
CORTEX
MATERIALS
MIRROR
NEURONS
ROOM
CONFIG
STRESS RESPONSE
COGNITIVE RESERVE
ATTENTION RESTORATION
SOUND
SOFT FASCINATION
NEURO PLASTICITY
BRAIN AND BODY MECHANISMS
NEURO
GENESIS
ENRICHED
ENVIRONMENTS
INTER
CONNECTIONS
LATENT INHIBITION
COGNITIVE CONTROL
DEFAULT MODE NETWORK
AIR
THALAMUS
IMAGINED PROPERTIES (WEIGHT, MOVEMENT)
VAGUS
LIGHT
HYPOCAMPUS
7. ASPECTS OF LIFE BUILT ENVIRONMENT CAN HELP WITH
PRESENCE
COLOURS
SAFETY
ACHIEVEMENT
MATERIALS
MOVEMENT
ROOM
CONFIG
SALUTO
GENESIS
SAFETY
COMPREHEN-SIBILITY
SOUND
SLEEP
BELONGING
DRIVERS OF POSITIVE EXPERIENCE
AGENCY
LEISURE
INTER
CONNECTIONS
MEANINGFUL-
NESS
INCLUSION
MANAGEABILITY
AIR
FREEDOM
IMAGINED PROPERTIES (WEIGHT, MOVEMENT)
IDENTITY
LIGHT
PLAY
8. WHAT ELSE?
ANCIENT EXPIERIENCES STORED IN BODY
ADJUSTMENT TO PERFORMED ACTIVITY
OTHER ELEMENTS INFLUENCING AND INTERFERING WITH EXPERIENCE