The push is on to incorporate brain science into design and architecture...
Hopefully, the days of windowless classrooms to prevent vandalism and distraction are over.
— Al Jazeera
Science once agains confirms what we already know, and architects turn it into a marketing tool.
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this is all you need to know:
People also respond more positively when they can identify a “face” in building design — windows as the eyes, doors as the mouth and so on.
Shapes also carry weight.
“Humans have a clear bias for curves over straight or sharp lines,” Hollander said. Studies have shown that curves elicit “feelings of happiness and elation, while jagged and sharp forms tend to connect to feelings of pain and sadness.”
design swoopy parametric buildings with faces in them and everyone will be happy!
i wonder if there is a limit to how far architects should really go to make people happy?
have you ever noticed how in commercial construction, outlets are often installed with the ground on top, but in residential, they're installed with the ground on bottom (more anthropomorphic)
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