Exemplary Post-Occupancy Evaluation (01-03-11)
If you are considering doing a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) and want to review an exemplary one, take a look at the article cited below, by Shepley and colleagues.
If you are considering doing a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) and want to review an exemplary one, take a look at the article cited below, by Shepley and colleagues.
Physical changes to the park contributed to the ultimate success of Disneyland Paris.
Designers can influence how people perceive spaciousness and enclosure.
An unexpected source produces a comprehensive guide to designing spaces that encourage physical activity.
Further research reinforces the importance of lines of sight and layout when considering how people find their way in a building.
Research done at the Harvard Medical School indicates that medical placebos are effective at reducing symptoms – even when the people taking them realize that they don’t have active ingredients.
New evidence indicates that the physical form of our brain causes us to literally see the same scene differently than others, whose brains inevitably are not identical to ours.
New research indicates how important it is for place design research and conversations to be conducted in the languages of the people that will ultimately use spaces being developed.
Faller and his colleagues have developed a classification system for a material library that recognizes a material’s intangible characteristics.
Asking people about the optimal arrangement of tables in a restaurant may not be a good use of time.