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18 Cards in this Set
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Factors Used to Predict Approach/Avoidance Behaviors: |
- The Environmental Load - The ratio of novelty to familiarity - Our ability/inability to screen stimuli - Our attitudes, expectations, memories, and motivations - Our feelings of affiliation with others in the environment - Our perception of performance - of a necessary, required, or desired task. |
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Involuntary Attention (Directed) |
-Directed attention is required when we must focus and avoid distractions to perform. - We experience mental fatigue when we exceed our capactiy for directed attention |
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Benefits of natural environments to privacy The relationship of novelty to familiarity |
Elegant balance of new, varied, changing information, with information that is comfortable and known
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Benefits of natural environments to privacy Connectedness |
Deep privacy that rejuvenates - observing other species. Participating in physical activities associated with nature
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Benefits of natural environments to privacy Mystery |
The promise that if we proceed and explore we will discover something more: - Hidden information - Something temps us to explore |
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Symbolic content/meaning Universal natural symbols have the greatest impact upon our emotional responses: |
Water - Calming Fire - hypnotic, contemplative Wind - change Light - renewal. enlightnment Trees - sheltering, protective Mountains - ascent |
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Prospect and refuge
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Offer opportunities to achieve privacy by controlling access to ourselves and experiencing involuntary attention
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Variables to consider when designing for
privacy |
Identifying patterns: Christopher Alexander, Pattern Language - Interactions between human beings and environments that occur again and again. - Combination of possible patterns creates a "pattern language" that can be used to create environments rich in meaning. |
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Patterns for privacy: |
Using patterns to help understand how human needs translate into environmental solutions provides a useful model for the creative process of designing for privacy
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Characteristics of Built Environments that promote Privacy. Spacial Hierarchy |
- Sequence from less private to more private - Affords choice - interaction or privacy |
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Characteristics of Built Environments that promote Privacy. Spatial Depth |
- Number of sequenced spaces - Regulate perceptions of crowding |
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Characteristics of Built Environments that promote Privacy. Circulation Paths |
- Arrangement of spaces affects how we move between them - People can pause and interact - people and environment - Should be generous and well lit - Adjacent to common areas |
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Characteristics of built environments that promote privacy. Sociofugal and Sociopetal Spaces: Tresholds: |
- A place of transition - Symbolic - Connect and distinguish - Low and high |
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Characteristics of built environments that promote privacy. Sociofugal and Sociopetal Spaces: Stimulus Shelters: |
- Alcoves are a pattern that responds to our dual privacy needs to both interact and restrict interaction - Window seat - Alexander considers them a necessity. |
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Characteristics of built environments that promote privacy. Sociofugal and Sociopetal Spaces: Light |
- Natural(always changing) - to maximize restorative potential -From at least two directions |
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Characteristics of built environments that promote privacy. Sociofugal and Sociopetal Spaces: Color |
We are naturally attracted to warm colors than cool -Warm - promote activity - Cool - calming - The warmth of colors in a room makes a great deal of difference between comfort and discomfort?? |
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Characteristics of built environments that promote privacy. Sociofugal and Sociopetal Spaces: Prospect and refuge part 1 |
The cloister: (to remove or separate oneself from external influences) - Part porch, part arcade - Neither inside nor outside - Usually used at the building edge - the sheltering edge. |
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Characteristics of built environments that promote privacy. Sociofugal and Sociopetal Spaces: Prospect and Refuge part 2 |
-Bit deep within the sheltering roof - Observe within the sheltering roof - Walk along its path - Observe the changing scene - Leave the refuge and venture into the areas of prospect with the assurance that we are not fully exposed. Many cloisters provide mystery and fascination |
