{"id":19339,"date":"2017-01-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/neuroscience-in-architecture\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T07:42:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T11:42:41","slug":"neuroscience-in-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/inspiration\/stories\/neuroscience-in-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Design: How Evidenced-Based Research Can Help Enhance Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

This feature has been created in collaboration with urbanNext<\/a>, a multi-platform aimed at developing, disseminating and distributing content centered on architecture through a focus on the contemporary human milieu and its challenges. Architizer features a weekly discussion from urbanNext\u2019s journals to support its investigation of urban conditions and innovations facing the architectural profession today.<\/h4>\n

Predicting social behavior and usability in architecture presents an age-old conundrum in the profession. An architect cannot truly understand how a building\u2019s social programs will be hosted and facilitated in a space until it is built and occupied. Behavioral and spatial studies of existing architecture works certainly function as powerful precedents in architectural research, but the challenge, and simultaneously the beauty, of architecture is that each new building engenders a unique experience.<\/p>\n

Now, a host of new technologies \u2014 virtual reality, spatial analysis, high-speed computing \u2014 have become available to architects to make closer and more refined projects about how their buildings will play out. It is Christoph H\u00f6lscher and Victor Schinazi\u2019s belief that these technologies, combined with \u201cgood basic research on spatial cognition,\u201d can provide a powerful toolset to architects\u2019 design processes.<\/p>\n