ARCHITECTURE AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

ARINA HAYATI – DA 2 MG 3 (22 FEBRUARI 2018)

HUMAN BEHAVIOR & THE DESIGNER

 Architecture:
 Art, combined with expression,
technology and human needs Architecture
satisfaction.
 Architecture is a science-based
profession with problem solving Human Environment
 What is success in designing for
people?
 What is the notion of “good” or
“better“ environment?
THE DAY THAT “MODERN ARCHITECTURE DIED”
(CHARLES JENCKS, 1972)

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Pruitt-Igoe
 Goals: feel more human, more alive, more fulfilled, etc
 How? Pay attention the needs of user, to the behavioral, social and
cultural determinants of design (Moore, 1985)
THE NATURE OF HUMAN
NATURE

 Human behavior is
complex subject
 uman motivation and
human needs (Maslow
1987)
 The most pressing to least
pressing
 MOTIVATING FACTORS THAT IS AFFECTED BY ENVIRONMENT
AND CAN BE INFLUENCED BY DESIGNERS, THEY ARE:
FRIENDSHIP
FORMATION

 Are formed on the basis

of shared interests and
backgrounds
 Understanding the effect
of closeness on social
contact (social
interaction)
 Configuration of buildings
(exits, stairways, parking
lots, elevators, play
ground, etc)
EPIPHANY
SCHOOL /
MILLER HULL
PARTNERSHIP
https://www.archdaily.com/97927/epiphany-
school-miller-hull-partnership
GROUP
MEMBERSHIP

 The extension needs to form

friendships
 Offer each member a better
opportunity to participate
 71% (2), 21% (3), 6% (4), 2% (5
or more)
 Space arrangment
(commonplace, corridors,
stairways, lobbies, etc)
PERSONAL SPACE
 Strong feelings about controlling access to their persons
 Related to privacy and physical contact
http://pr2011.aaschool.ac.uk/students/jiwon-lee
YAMAKOYA LIBRARY

 inspired by the shapes

and forms of mountain
scenery to create a
tranquil interior-exterior
space.
 to create areas
designated for personal
study, bookshelves and
storage.

https://wolfeyebrows.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/yamakoya-library/
 https://allwork.space/2016/01/cool-offices-airbnb-bbdo-redbull-pandora-and-more/
 Personal Space deals
with human assorted
ideas of senses, such as:
hear, sight, smell, touch
and taste
 Personal Space in a
cultural context http://english201nonverbalcommuni
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PERSONAL STATUS
• Speech,Vocabulary, Posture, Movement, Clothing, Hairstyle, Status Of Buildings
• Floor Space, Window Locations, Furnishing, Attractive And Functional Work Spaces
TERRITORIALITY

 Feelings about personal space and

concern for personal status
 Principles cataegories:
 Personal/group possessions
 Temporary territory
 Group territory
 Territorial responsibility
COMMUNICATIONS
MIND YOUR BEHAVIOR
3XN, DENMARK

How Architecture Shapes Behaviour

http://www.archdaily.com/office/3xn http://www.evolo.us/architecture/3xn-mind-your-behaviour/
 Architecture can get people
talking together.
 Architecture can calm
children in the classroom.
 Architecture can make
passive people more
active.
 Architecture can shape
corporate culture.
 Architecture can
encourage people to find
new paths, discover new
aspects of their city – and
of themselves.
 In short, architecture can
shape your behavior.
7 THEMES OF THE CONCEPT OF BEHAVIOR ASSOCIATED WITH THE
DESIGN UNIVERSE.

 ‘Cultural Behaviour’,
 ‘Learning Behaviour’,
 ‘Human Behaviour’, ‘Social  Focus on which happens when
Behaviour’, architecture shapes behaviour.
 ‘Public Behaviour’,  Architecture affects human
behavior and contributes to the
 ‘Building Behaviour’,
creation of new relations among
 ‘Responsible Behavior’ individuals.

http://www.evolo.us/architecture/3xn-mind-your-behaviour/
 How do you lay out an urban
Public Behaviour
environment for people?
No longer as ‘urban dwellers’, but
instead as belonging to a particular
neighborhood.

However, many new urban

developments still seem empty and
soulless.
 Should the materials we know limit
architecture, or should we develop
materials that meet our needs?
Responsible Behaviour
The materials of the future are already
available to us.
They can help us find the answers for
many of the challenges that the world
faces in the future.

 Learning Behavior

 Can a building in itself

aid the education process?
Before: a school taught to put up our hand
and to sit quietly in our seats.

Today: a classrooms accommodate very

different teaching methods.

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ØRESTAD COLLEGE: A NEW
EDUCATIONAL BUILDING
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK,
KEY ISSUES:

1. Communication
2. Interaction
3. Synergy

 New interpretation:
 Openness and flexibility (team size,
varying individual and groups)

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http://old.sla.dk/byrum/oerestadgb.htm

Located in the main urban expansion area of

Copenhagen
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Mapping the movement

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Four boomerang shaped floor plans with powerful super structure which
forms the overall frame of the building – simple and highly flexible.
http://www.dezeen.com/2007/10/19/orestad-college-copenhagen-by-3xn-architects/

Encourages students to
make their own
decisions in respect of
learning goals and
learning strategies,
thus preparing them for
university
http://www.architectural-review.com/today/tq-schools-
orestad-college-by-3xn-architects/8625808.fullarticle
 Avoiding level changes for
the organizational flexibility
enables the different
teaching and learning spaces
to overlap and interact with
no distinct borders.

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http://www.byoghavn.dk/presse/nyheder/2010/danmarks+mest+sogte+g
ymnasium+ligger+i+orestad.aspx

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 What makes people
HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
choose new paths?
 Everybody remembers a first; the
first day at school, the first trip
abroad, their first love

 We thirst after new experiences,

yet time after time we still seem
to choose the same old paths
 How can we use each other’s
Cultural Behavior
differences to expand our world again?

The world is shrinking.

The globalization
Technology
 Should interaction cease
when working life begins? SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

 Man is born a social

creature.
 We spend our school years
studying and absorbing
knowledge with our peers.
THANKS!
REFERENCES: DEASY AND LASSWELL (1985) DESIGNING PLACES FOR PEOPLE