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Designing a Sense of Place: Don’t Forget Memory!
Image: Adam36 | Dreamstime Within architectural space it is important to establish a sense of place. This is true not only for the architecture to be good but also for your experience within that space...
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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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Architectural Scale Always Leaves an Impression
image: MissTurner | Flickr Architecture resonates at many scales — the human scale, the building scale, the urban scale, the global scale and the cultural scale. Each building creates a ripple effect...
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The Reason to Make Your Architectural Design Radiate
image: batintherain | Flickr Your architectural design reverberates. Yes, architecture maintains walls made up of materials and even wayfinding systems that convey important information; but, the...
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Integrate a Community Place to Better Connect Your Occupants
Image: La Citta Vita | Flickr What will turn your architecture from merely being a place that people go to, into a place that people feel attached to — a space where they have made a connection and one...
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What “Logorama” Has to do with Your Architectural Design Intent (Video)
Image: laurenatclemson | Flickr If by chance you watched the 2010 Academy Awards you may have noticed that the “Animated Short” category was won by the film called Logorama, directed by the French...
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Does Augmented Reality Technology Change Your Building for Better or For Worse?
Image: plantronicsgermany | Flickr As people travel through the world today, they experience many dimensions to the spaces they encounter. Whether within a building, or when exploring a city, people...
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How Cyber Cafe Design Can Revolutionize “Sense of Place” By Bridging Between...
Image: Aka Hige | Flickr Many major companies and institutions (like Starbucks and some major airports) are now making sure to include free WiFi wireless connection to boost sales through major...
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Using Context to Spark a Spiritual Design that Touches Your Occupant’s Soul
Image Credit: country_boy_shane | Flickr Within your building it is very important to meet basic human needs — whether they be your occupants’ needs for shelter, to work productively, learn alertly or...
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Giving Architecture a “Sense of Place”
Greater than the Sum of its Parts What should the term “sense of place” mean to you as an architect? A “place” is a simple term at first glance; but when you delve deeper, various issues spring...
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How Emotion Impacts the Perception of Architecture
The Link Between Emotion and “Sense of Place” Architecture can trigger emotion. Just look at how designed memorials can trigger emotions like pride, sadness, or gratitude. Similarly, other building...
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How Architecture Experience and Meaning Uplift Your Design Quality
Why Architecture Experience and Meaning Matter When one extracts meaning from experience, value is given through a lesson learned, a memory formed, or even a new idea created. And since environments...
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How to Deepen the Sense of Place Your Designs Create
Strengthening the Relationship between Occupant and Environment An architecturally designed environment, when newly built, stands ready to welcome occupants inside – to utilize its environments from...
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How Contemplative Spaces in Architecture Deepen Connection
Giving Occupants Room to Breathe Within an architectural design narrative, it is wise to give occupants room to breathe — to absorb what they have experienced and to prepare for what is to come. If it...
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