The Space Effect - eBook
THE SPACE EFFECT
HOW AND WHY WE BECOME THE SPACES WE INHABIT
by SpaceTherapy Co-Founder & Prof. of Architecture, Roger Richmond
I highly recommend this free eBook for those interested in a more in-depth look at how our personal and work environments are having a profound impact on behavior.
The concept of designed space influencing human behavior is gaining more significance in architecture educations.
Spaces are more than just rooms, large enough for an activity…they may be considered as behavioral settings, where even subtle aspects may have long lasting positive or negative effects on the occupants…
IT WORKS LIKE THIS…
We “submit” to any space’s physical, social, psychological, or aesthetic restrictions. This “submission,” over time, impacts behavior as we “adapt” to the “demands” and offerings of the space. The adaptation represents a change in our life experience that may be positive or negative. Every room you live in and work in affects you. Most of us are unaware of our interconnection to “designed” spaces.
At this moment the design of your intimate, social personal or business spaces may be affecting your experience!
“We’ve used habitable volumes since the beginning of our recorded and unrecorded history, and will continue to use them in support of human occupation, motivation, and experience into the future. We may ultimately produce habitations on the Moon, (probably in caves) and someday on our neighboring planets in much the same way perhaps that we prehistorically inhabited caves on Earth… Ironic.
Our world has tepees, yurts, Dogon villages, Pueblos, office blocks, mansions, hospitals, funeral homes, and condos on Miami Beach. It has banks, and schools, camps and residences, recording studios and theaters, bus stations and airports, studios and jails… Some of these spaces may be experienced by all of us every day…
This is one reason why the design of space is so important…it defines the places where so many of the experiences of our lives occur. Unfortunately we often overlook its impact upon us, and how it may influence and affect our human behaviors.”
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This is a 381 page ebook.
Though it’s primarily for those in the design world, any serious enquirer who would like to learn from it and is wanting to deeply understand the difference between a building and a Work of Architecture will find this ebook very useful.
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