Continuous development and growing economic opportunities are fuelling urban expansion. More than half of the world’s population now resides in cities (Gómez et al., 2020). To stay on par with…
Awe is not just a movie; it feels like a maze of emotions living inside one building. Each and Every room holds a different life, a different mood, a different…
There’s a quiet conversation happening all around us, not with words, but with walls, light, thresholds, and streets. We move through spaces every day, often without realizing how deeply they…
The Quiet Power of Behavioral Urbanism Cities are imagined as living organisms, one that lives, breathes, moves and grows. Yet much of this fluidity depends on the simplistic feature of…
Joy is not a grand feeling. It never uses trumpets to announce itself. The sound of footsteps in an old hallway, a glimpse of sunlight on the floor, or the…
We pass through several spaces being unknown of how strongly they shape our behavior and unconscious habits. A lamppost by the side of the street, a tea shop by the…
In this non-stop growing world, many buildings arise where the sky slowly disappears behind those tall buildings. People no longer can admire the beauty of the sky. Among the pollution…
Architecture isn’t just the aesthetics of walls, windows, structures or anything. It’s the design of well-being and livelihood. Architects design a home considering lots of aspects, such as sun position,…
Behind every wall and corridor, architecture hides a subtle but powerful dimension: the emotional and psychological impact of space on its inhabitants. While the visible elements like structure, façade, and…
Most of us believe that a room’s color, furnishings, or style influences how we react to it. However, our emotional responses to constructed settings start long before those outward features…
There are buildings that ask only to be looked at, and then there are those that ask to be experienced, touched, remembered. The distinction, more often than not, lies not…
“All architecture experiences are multi-sensory; spatial, material, and dimensional qualities are quantified equally by the eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue, skeleton, and muscle.” – Juhani Pallasmaa Touch a bentwood armrest…