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Designing for Smell and Memory Is Highly Effective
Image: © Dianka | Dreamstime.com You walk into a room. You notice a certain aroma. You smell fresh cookies baking in the kitchen. Immediately, you remember your childhood days when your mother brought...
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Why a Mental Map is Important for Architects to Understand
Image: Miss_Colleen | Flickr As an architect, you probably spend much of your time designing and preparing for programmatic functions and the aesthetic beauty to be experienced by future building...
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What Will People Remember About Your Architecture?
image: Manky Maxblack | Flickr As you design your building, do you ever think about what will remain “standing” both physically and in the minds of those that experience it in the future? Yes,...
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The Architecture Experience You Design Can Erase a Memory
Image: JoshuaDavisPhotography. COM | Flickr The notion of having dispositions, or records, that your brain keeps as it experiences architecture is quite an interesting thought. If every time your...
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The Power of Scent for Architectural Design
Image: claude.attard.bezzina | Flickr I came across an interesting article recently entitled Scent as Design. In it, the author discusses topics that were brought up during a recent symposium that was...
View ArticleYour Building Design Can Trigger Profound Occupant Emotional Memory
There is very interesting research going on right now which is indicating that there could be neural connections in the brain “between the senses (hence, sensorial stimuli) and intense memories”. (1)...
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Can Occupant Travel Speed Determine How They Remember Their Experience within...
Image: D'Arcy Norman | Flickr Architects often look at where their occupants travel within their building, what makes them decide to go wherever they are going, and what behaviors they engage in once...
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Can Architectural Symbols Help Occupants with Recalling Memory?
Image: foxypar4 |Flickr In recent lab tests, studies are showing that it is possible to replay memories within a rat’s brain to restore its memory. By using an implant, signals are sent to the...
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A Formula to Make Your Occupant’s Architectural Memories Last
Image Credit: szeke | Flickr Did you know that there is memory bias? That is, memory can be changed, boosted, or impaired. So, if this is the case: What makes building occupants form stronger...
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How Your Architecture Can Help Occupants to Remember
Image: Al&Koko | Flickr As an architect, you are in the business of creating “scenes”. And a scene is defined in the dictionary as “a place where an action or event occurs”. But your goal isn’t...
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