“Perhaps we should be closer to medicine than to the Fine Arts”, says the architect, who in the last 10 years has applied the discoveries of the relationship between cognition and the places we inhabit in the designs he elaborates, method known as neuroarchitecture.
“For a long time it was assumed that we thought with our brains, but recently they realized that we also do it with our bodies and, therefore, with the tools and spaces that surround us” he adds in an interview with Obras.
To get the spaces to heal, the first step is to make them stop doing damage, so pain mechanisms must be analyzed.
According to the expert, also specialized in futurism, scientists have discovered that there are at least three pains that use the same mechanism that pain uses in the brain, although they are more difficult to be perceptible because there is no physical stimulus, “but has the same consequences. These are boredom, lack of aesthetics and lack of socialization”, details the author of Office As a Tribe. On the more humane future of offices.
(Hector Lopez Gonzalez)
These elements can be seen in common architectural typologies in traditional workplaces or in classrooms, where stimuli are lacking and little interaction is sought between those who inhabit them.
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Using neuroarchitecture to improve these places can help increase people’s happiness, creativity and improve their relationship with knowledge.
Its use is developing slowly in Mexico, “we are a guild that does not like to have 200 years of the definition of architecture questioned and how to do it, we are not very interdisciplinary, so I think it is having a hard time opening up because science would have to be very involved”, explains the architect, who recently published a masterclass on the Construlita platform.