presentations and feedbacks

I had my final presentation at White's office, and right now I am guessing I am done with thesis presentations.

After all the presentations I got some questions which gives me a feed back and notifies me how I can pull thesis to evaluate other branches of healthcare.

Here I summed the questions I received and you will see my personal answers:

How we benefit from neuroscience?

Learning neuroscience and how the brain is connected to environments opens another perspective to architecture.

Can neuro-architecture be a key generator for starting a design?

No. In brief, neuro-architecture is not an architectural concept. We can not start a design, saying we are going to build a “neuro-architectonic building”, same as we don’t start the design as “acoustic building”. Neuro-architecture is a tool such as any science or methods that supports and develops architecture. It is about brain, how we are affected by our surroundings and how we can change/motivate the effect in a positive way.

How do we apply the principles to healthcare?

Play therapy is a part of healthcare unit. The sub topics, way finding, enrichment, privacy are closely related to the overall design of hospitals. In my design part, when I was connecting research part to architectural design, I searched through principals of healthcare and filtered them to one single department and deepened a new research on the related department. To adapt the principals to the other departments, the same topics of neuro-architecure are going to be applied but an additional research within use of other departments is needed.

How would the design look like if you didn’t know about neuro-architecture?

Probably I would consider it as another part of hospital, search on existing hospitals, make some observations on the existing unit and add my architectural design approaches (which were not deeply focused on user brain before). In other words, it would satisfy the architects, but wouldn’t evaluate the wellbeing of the patients by architectural design.

Will you use your research on other fields? Or can you use?

Yes! Because any building affects the brain and the parameters are relevant to everyday life. For example, we need wayfinding, in a hospital, in school, airport. We should avoid stress in schools, offices, and houses. We need concentration, relaxation, orientation... So if it is possible to do better, why not to use the information?