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  • Essay / Environmental architecture: the field of the environment...

    In architecture, spaces are more or less defined by boundaries. A psychological phenomenon directed towards and evidenced by the architectural environment can be described as experiential qualities. These affective qualities have the potential to bring out an emotional response to architectural environments, which can be either a conscious judgment or a subconscious mood-changing effect. Psychology and architecture are a vast and diverse subject of study. By exploring the field of environmental psychology, we understand the physical and behavioral effects between people and their physical environment that become quite complex when acoustic characteristics (noise), elements of light and color (warm or cold, shade or hue ), texture (materials and surface) are taken into account. Environmental psychology can be divided into several elements: 1.) Awareness or understanding of how people perceive their environment 2.) Perception or how people cognitively map what they experience based on what they know or what they think about the environment. The perception of buildings is a complex process. since it concerns not only sensations such as sight but also perception. Experience with other previous buildings is also important. We store and recall our sensory experiences of architecture and buildings through evaluation, decision-making, emotion and affect, as well as interaction and movement. In the Paimio sanatorium, designed by Alvar Aalto, he arranged the patient's wing in such a way that he was maximally exposed to the sun and beautiful views. Exposure to light has been shown to reduce the average length of stay in a psychiatric asylum from 13 to 4 days compared to patients in a dimly lit room. This shows how important the experience of a space is. Considering these factors... middle of paper ...... his son feels the need for socialization and also personal spaces where the person is not disturbed and can concentrate. Our built environment can be structured to encourage or discourage social interactions. For example, hallways generally tend to discourage social interactions, while circular rooms tend to encourage social interactions. Our built environment can also affect social order by interacting with our perceptions of personal space and territory. Architecture, a symbolic and intentional enterprise, seems to reflect the psychology of its designers regardless of time, culture, and perhaps even species. Space, form and light are elements that are often incorporated deliberately or unconsciously for aesthetic or practical reasons, but which more clearly give creatures meaning, purpose and stability in the midst of an ever-changing physical universe. evolution and apparent chaos..