Designing Spiritual Places
Spiritual spaces are particularly challenging to design, but insight from research can be helpful.
Spiritual spaces are particularly challenging to design, but insight from research can be helpful.
Manning and his colleagues investigated “design features that satisfy or dissatisfy worshippers who attend Mass at a traditionally designed Catholic church and a modern Catholic church design.”
Bluyssen reviews the literature on human experience of indoor environments.
Including a labyrinth in a garden or space has spiritual value.
Nonverbal messages may not be clear to all observers, especially when different cultures are involved.
The Cornell Intypes (Interior Archetypes) Research and Training Project is working to systematize the way people talk about interior design.
Milliner reviews the negative response of many parishioners to the Modernist churches that house their congregations and attributes their unhappiness to the failure of these structures to meet worshipers’ psychological needs.
Wild nature is not the only place for restoration. Many diverse places can provide that benefit.
Human beings restock their stores of mental energy in restorative spaces.
Creating places for worship builds community.