initial steps to design

It is hard to set a design rule for a subject that can have many variables. If we narrow the topic from healthcare to children with brain injuries, it is still going to widen from type of the users, location, visitor frequency, treatments hold in the hospital, or maybe not always a hospital, maybe another environment.

What is architect's contribution?
This is the question, that what I am trying to filter from all the mass knowledge I take from neuroscience. It feels even so shallow to be able to take knowledge from neuroscience, it is so broad and so medical. I am mostly scanning thorough environmental behaviors, response of brain to perceptions, and figuring out how environment affects the brain. Many literature tends more talking about general aspects, or giving methods of research. With all these inputs, I tried to sort the common mental states, that are to be achieved or avoided, and which aspects of environment causes them.
The following chart is to showing the study:

Chart 2.2
2.2. Brain vs. Environment
The five sets are holding different classes which effect in different ways to the design.

Sense of place: The general approach, includes orientation of or to the building, the setting of the plans. Wayfinding is related with user-friendly setting of the building, easy locations of stations. While giving enough Privac to the users and visitors. Socialization is in general sense is that if the environment itself encourages social interactions.

Room Use: It the patient's room. Anything related with volume, such as planning, individual stay or sharing the room with other patients, allowing visitor stay or not, or different levels within the room are related with this set.

Enrichment: This concerns more about additional support to the architectural planning, such as setting of the room furnitures, artworks, colors...Nature is an important fact which can be also related with room planning or site planning when an access is given.

Light: Types and amount of the light needed in the room. Related with window sizes, daylight amount, artificial light etc..

Noise: Some brain conditions are more sensitive to expected sounds, which requires insulation. For some, it doesn't matter. Speech clarity in certain theapies or learning process may be included in the demands also.

The design parameters related to neuroscience have many different scales. It relates with site design, landscape design, relates with architectural setting of the spaces, as volumes and orientations, and it concerns interior design with furnitures, lights and settings...

I worked with a simple diagram, giving the common parameters of the sets given above and classified them which is more related to architecture or interior design... It is not separating all but being aware of how much collaboration is to design a building with neuroarchitecture.

Chart 2.3

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