Imagine walking down a poorly lit corridor, where every door looks the same, fluorescent lights buzz overhead, and your footsteps echo in the void. You pause. Where should you go? Your body tenses even before you think. Now contrast that scene with entering the atrium of a library filled with natural light. A central spiralContinueContinue reading “The Impact of Architecture on the Brain and Mental Health”
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Shaping Realities: The Power of Architecture
Throughout history, architecture has been described in many ways—sometimes as pure art, other times as a fusion of art and technology. But what if we saw it differently? Not just as shelter or infrastructure, but as the creation of realities. Unlike video games or virtual reality, this is not about digital simulations. It is aboutContinueContinue reading “Shaping Realities: The Power of Architecture”
Neuroarchitecture: Lessons from Brutalism
Brutalism was more than a style of raw concrete and bold forms—it was an experiment in shaping society through design. Emerging from the devastation of the Second World War, it promised dignity, efficiency, and fairness in housing and public life. Buildings were stripped back to their essentials, constructed in béton brut—raw concrete—without ornament or disguise.ContinueContinue reading “Neuroarchitecture: Lessons from Brutalism”
Brutalism and Social Housing: Utopia, Failure, and Legacy
“Less is boring” Robert Venturi Few architectural projects capture the promise and pitfalls of Brutalism as vividly as Robin Hood Gardens in East London. Designed by Alison and Peter Smithson in the early 1970s, it was conceived as a social experiment: vast concrete blocks connected by “streets in the sky” and centred around a greenContinueContinue reading “Brutalism and Social Housing: Utopia, Failure, and Legacy”
How Lab Mazes Inform Urban Design
Have you ever seen how scientists design mazes for rats? Scientists use mazes to study how small changes in an environment alter behaviour. Light levels, corridor width, or the placement of a reward can nudge an animal toward caution, curiosity, or approach. Tests such as the Social Interaction Test reveal a simple lesson: environment shapesContinueContinue reading “How Lab Mazes Inform Urban Design”
Subjectivity, Perception, and Multiple Realities
Shadows on the Wall Well over two thousand years ago, Plato imagined a group of prisoners chained inside a cave. For them, reality was nothing more than shadows cast on the wall—flickering shapes mistaken for the whole truth. Only when one prisoner was freed and stepped into the sunlight did he realise that what theyContinueContinue reading “Subjectivity, Perception, and Multiple Realities”
How Environment Influences Learning and Emotional Safety
María is a bright and curious student. Yet, every time exam season arrives, she feels unwell. The night before, she barely sleeps. In the morning, her stomach aches and her head throbs. As she walks into the exam hall, the harsh fluorescent lights flicker above, rows of identical desks stretch endlessly, and the ticking clockContinueContinue reading “How Environment Influences Learning and Emotional Safety”
The Science of Perception: How Gestalt Principles Influence Us
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The Colour Illusion: How the Mind Paints Reality
When you look at a ripe strawberry, is it truly red—or is that just your brain’s interpretation? Surprisingly, colour does not exist outside our perception.It’s a story our brain tells, based on light. From a physics perspective, colour is simply electromagnetic radiation within a specific range of wavelengths—between roughly 400 and 700 nanometres—that the humanContinueContinue reading “The Colour Illusion: How the Mind Paints Reality”
Neuroarchitecture: How Eye Tracking is Transforming Design
We know that children’s attention is brief by nature. In the case of children with ADHD or other neurodivergent conditions, that window may be even shorter, more fragmented, and more sensitive to the environment. However, most school spaces are still designed as if all students have the same ability to focus, filter stimuli, and orientContinueContinue reading “Neuroarchitecture: How Eye Tracking is Transforming Design”
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