Cooling and Courtyards (10-18-12)
It generally seems cooler inside Mediterranean courtyards than in the surrounding streets.
It generally seems cooler inside Mediterranean courtyards than in the surrounding streets.
We’ve all had déjà vu experiences.
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Space syntax is an important design research tool. N.S. Dalton announced a new iPad app to support people doing space syntax research via a recent e-mail to the space syntax listserv (spacesyntax.jiscmail.ac.uk).
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Current research elaborates ways in which messages sent by designed elements directly influence workers’ attitudes and actions, including collaboration and approach to innovation.
Healthcare environments—long-term-care homes, therapist offices, children's waiting rooms, labor and delivery rooms, neo-natal units, and new hospitals—continue to be carefully researched.
Beale reports on a new design option from Del Webb, which builds communities for people 55 and older – snore rooms.
British psychologists have learned that all that time we spend sitting at work has repercussions beyond the size of the posterior we’re sitting on.
A soon to be published study, authored by Brett Martin of the Queensland University of Technology confirms that people dislike being crowded, even when holiday shopping.