review · Ain Shams Engineering Journal
Smart buildings link occupants to built environments to support sustainability and respond to user needs. Neuroarchitecture combines neuroscience and architecture to address four core areas of human wellbeing: physical, intellectual, emotional, and social. A systematic qualitative review evaluated neuroarchitecture research published over an eight-year period, applying descriptive, thematic, narrative, and critical analysis. From this analysis, a structured neuroarchitecture model was developed to map specific design characteristics against documented human responses. The findings synthesise experimentally verified physiological, psychological, cognitive, and behavioural effects of architectural design on people, providing a foundational framework for designing spaces that actively support human health and performance.
The built environment profoundly influences how people feel, think, and interact daily. By examining how specific architectural choices trigger proven biological and psychological responses, planners can create healthier homes, schools, and workplaces. This approach moves design beyond aesthetic or structural considerations alone, prioritising measurable human health and mental wellbeing in building development.
This model provides design guidance that could eventually assist architectural practices, urban planners, and developers of smart, occupant-responsive buildings. However, as a qualitative systematic review, the work remains at an early, conceptual stage of development. Commercial adoption would require turning these synthesised insights into practical design standards, software tools, or evaluation metrics that can be tested in built environments.
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Nowadays, smart buildings connect individuals to their built environment to make sustainable buildings responsive to the user behaviour and needs to enhance human-wellbeing. Recently, the “Neuroarchitecture” concept emerged integrating Neuroscience and Architecture to create environments that fulfil four pillars of human wellbeing. It facilitates understanding how architecture can affect our wellbeing: physically (body), intellectually (brain), emotionally (emotions) and socially (behaviour). This study conducted a systematic review about “Neuroarchitecture” explaining it, its pillars, different terms, its design characteristics, and their effects on humans. This research adopted a qualitative approach in which the researchers collected Neuroarchitecture studies in the last eight years, then used descriptive, thematic, narrative and critical analysis methods to develop a systematic review. Based on the selected literature articles, the authors proposed and explained a “Neuro-architecture” model. Finally, the experimentally proven physiological, psychological, cognitive and behavioural effects of architecture through neuroarchitecture were presented in correspondence to the design characteristics.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.asej.2022.102102
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