Neuroarchitecture

Neuroarchitecture explores how the built environment interacts with the brain, body, emotions and behaviour. We are constantly reading the spaces around us, often without noticing.

Light, colour, sound, ceiling height, proportions, visual stimulation, clutter, texture, temperature, views, routes through a space and opportunities for shelter or an overview all convey information. They can affect where our attention goes, how easily we find our way and move, whether we want to stay or leave, and whether our nervous system tends towards activity or calm.

This does not mean that there is one scientifically perfect space. People differ, circumstances differ and needs change. A more useful question is personal: what does this particular environment seem to ask of your nervous system, and does that fit the needs you want it to meet?