ABSTRACT
Architecture impacts its occupants both tangibly and intangibly. The key is for designers of such architecture to create buildings which tap into both tangible and intangible benefits. Architecture plays important roles in the way all of the sensory stimuli come together to feed perception. Adaptive architecture can use neuroscience findings that make architecture work for the general population, while also tuning architectural percepts to impact occupants on an individual basis. The neuroscience of perception points toward occupant learning. By understanding perception, designers can best formulate the architectural framework for such a dialogue–where architecture can sense occupants, just as occupants can sense architecture. Adaptive architecture will have an interface. That is, as architecture interacts with its occupants, the experience should be seamless, effortless, and intuitive. Adaptive architecture emits environmental information that occupants process. Such information processing involves identifying and interpreting stimuli.
