Architecture and the system body-brain

In this module, students will work on the nature of the human pre-cognitive emotional expectations, surging from the daily activities. From the February to April 2021, students will focus the link between the body and its movements and consequently, deriving from these underpinnings, the development of the different patterns of interaction with space. Finally, students will learn how to translate awaited emotions in a dynamical perception of shapes able to attune humans’ needs with architecture.

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Davide Ruzzon and Roberto Fulciniti, into the Second Module’s frame, will guide the Neuroscience Application Labs, NAL, starting always in the Mondays after the Weekly Classes. Labs will be devoted to analyze closely the way to translate in architectural terms the knowledge acquired during the three weekly classes's blocks, in Febraury, March and April. Three rounds of NALs will face the way to design indoor spaces according users emotional expectations, another also creating a consistent organization of the many different units composing an indoor, or outdoor, spatial project. Not least, the third NAL will be focused in the scales’ perception integration, from the urban voids to the volumes architectural design.

February 2022: Translating bodily kinematics in architectural perception;
March 2022: Geometries in actions, symbols and a consistent indoor design;
April 2022: Scales’ perception integration, between outdoor and indoor navigation

week 2.a

HUMAN PRE-COGNITIVE EXPECTATIONS

This part will deepen the pre-cognitive expectations of users, surging from decisions developed along with diverse activities and architectural contexts. Inside an environment, persons’ experiences are implicitly affected by past emotional memories. These mental events influence the expectation able to shape the top-down projection of body-space templates.

LESSONS: From Monday 07th to Friday 11th February 2022

NAL: 14 and 25 February 2022

week 2.b

THE DESIGN OF THE ATTUNEMENT

During the second week of this module, invited professors will show students how architecture can trigger different attunement methods between experience and spatial organization. Classes will focus on atmosphere, embodiment, and enactivism as catalysts of more balanced human physiological responses to the cities and buildings and their related consequences in cognitive performances, health, well-being, and improved social relationships.

LESSONS: From Monday 07th to Friday 11th March 2022

NAL: 14 and 25 March 2022

week 2.c

COUPLING PRE-COGNITIVE EXPECTATIONS WITH ARCHITECTURE

Lessons will explore how the physiological analysis of top-down models (gestures/space templates) makes it possible to define guidelines that shape the coupling of space perception with users’ affective expectations. According to this approach, it is possible to integrate all the spatial components in various schemes: the form, the size, the topological qualities, materials, lights, texture, acoustic, and colors. Students will also explore how to intersect the facades consistently, at more or less extended scales of vision, with the closer and inner perception of volumes.

LESSONS: From Monday 04th to Friday 08th April 2022

NAL: 11 and 22 April 2022