BraneSpace
Brane: an extended object analogous to thestrings of string theory but having any number of dimensionsrather than one dimension.
What is the Next Revolution for?
industrial, technological, cultural, etc. paradigm shifts have had an immense effect on how architecture diveated.
with the evolution of neuroscience and the understanding of the human cognitive system, the next revolution has
been happening since neurology came out of the clinic.
The next revolution in architecture is the utilization of neuroscience to enhence a stronger unconscious dialogue
between the space and the human experience.
but, who are you?
..as the technology will emerge, buildings will have the aboloty to know who we are.
buildings would interact with us as a brain, rather than a mass
through physioneural data and pattern recognition, with the powerful tools of deep learning and bci, the human
brain becomes part of the systems buildings operate upon.
//Brief
Spatial responsive behaviours acting upon the users’ unconscious.
This is an attempt towards quanifying and finding key correlations and causation behind architectural
elements and our experience. In other words, this project looks forward to introduce the human brain
as a fundamental part of an ecosystem consisting of a user, a space and a context.
On the other hand, analyzing human and spatial simultanously opens new doors towards how we think
about design, experience space and the materials we use. Celebrating the psychic ground of architecture,
this project can be situated in a branch of possibilities.
//Potential Application
+ a new design tool based on semantic search algorithms to help aid designers
+ as important as all analysis software, we should be able to analyze and predict how we
would feel in a certain space
+ standing-up for space, this project can ultimately become a way to move towards a human agency in
architecture rather than celebrating human as a center.
Try before you buy.We can read from the brain, but we can also write.What if users are given the ability to experience a space before it is realized?How would that change how we design?How we percieve spacesand the materiality we use to erect buildings
//Methodology
Throughout the research phase of the project, a research tool was required, and thus BraneSpace apparatus
was desined and fabricated to be later used to acquire user and space data and conclude with
further findings.
On a narrower scale, BraneSpace Lab was realized as a controled environment where parameters could
be cut down for a more scientific/controlled canonical correlation analysis.
IaaC BrainMaps
brainwaves following the route taken by the user in an experiment in the IaaC ground floor.
different colors index different cortexes in the brain
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Findings
Data from the 14-EEG sensors, linked to the main affectors
Sound findings
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//Can our brains be part of a system of which architecturalstructures are part of as well?//What is the future of the concept of an “author” inarchitecture?
Considering architecture as a spatial condition
that enables a certain experience or change
in mood or emotions, why don’t architectural
structures/system understand our mental state?
Is it possible to quantify architectural affect?
Workflow
After all findings from experiments done at the BraneSpace Lab, the following step was to get the Lab to life,
to realize what what the hypothesis.
Using this logic, and learning from experience patterns and data analysis, the space produces sound and light [ color ]
having the users brain data.
The workflow shown below displays one of the combinations, in this case, to stimulate the user to a certain threshold,
then relax, to stimulate again.
A healthy brain is a brain at work.
//Conclusion
Cognitive neuroscience, various physiological sensors and programming power is capable of
grasping signals from the human brain and the human body and transform it to an emotional state
understanding.
On this note, it becomes possible by gathering data on a spatial scale and overlap data of the physio-
neural state to conclude with the relational efficiency through a neural network that functions
as an assistant to finding these relations and create a space that responds to user’s experience/
emotions.
// By linking physiological processes and mechanized assemblages directly, architecture becomes
a robotic system that has unique behavioural traits and is tethered to humans; here, technology,
rather than the body becomes the interface that negotiates between human cognition and a synthetic
formal order of space; a transarchitecture.
Architecture becomes the new body.
>>>
if this scheme renders architecture as a spatial construct that negotiates between human cognition
and the environment through technological frameworks, the postarchitecture is the absence
of this negotiation.
Bibliography
This diagram is more of a locus, a theoretical/technical/conceptual archeology of this project.
From the early theories of autonomous architecture, artificial intelligence, participatory design, designed
reality, machenization etc. to the most recent neuroscience research, put together with a combination of
technologies and program, this schematic serves as an archepelago of moments, that were key to this project.
Links show relation between references, in terms of collaboration, authorship, etc.
Glimpses
Cutting things short, this video shows some moments in the proect, from the first experiments, the sketch aparatus,
the development and further experiments.
but, who are you? ..as the technology will emerge, buildings will have the aboloty to know who we are. buildings would interact with us as a brain, rather than a mass through physioneural data and pattern recognition, with the powerful tools of deep learning and bci, the human brain becomes part of the systems buildings operate upon.
//Brief Spatial responsive behaviours acting upon the users’ unconscious. This is an attempt towards quanifying and finding key correlations and causation behind architectural elements and our experience. In other words, this project looks forward to introduce the human brain as a fundamental part of an ecosystem consisting of a user, a space and a context. On the other hand, analyzing human and spatial simultanously opens new doors towards how we think about design, experience space and the materials we use. Celebrating the psychic ground of architecture, this project can be situated in a branch of possibilities. //Potential Application + a new design tool based on semantic search algorithms to help aid designers + as important as all analysis software, we should be able to analyze and predict how we would feel in a certain space + standing-up for space, this project can ultimately become a way to move towards a human agency in architecture rather than celebrating human as a center.
Try before you buy. We can read from the brain, but we can also write. What if users are given the ability to experience a space before it is realized? How would that change how we design? How we percieve spaces and the materiality we use to erect buildings //Methodology Throughout the research phase of the project, a research tool was required, and thus BraneSpace apparatus was desined and fabricated to be later used to acquire user and space data and conclude with further findings.
On a narrower scale, BraneSpace Lab was realized as a controled environment where parameters could be cut down for a more scientific/controlled canonical correlation analysis.
IaaC BrainMaps brainwaves following the route taken by the user in an experiment in the IaaC ground floor. different colors index different cortexes in the brain
////////////////////////////////////////////////// Findings
Data from the 14-EEG sensors, linked to the main affectors Sound findings
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //Can our brains be part of a system of which architectural structures are part of as well? //What is the future of the concept of an “author” in architecture? Considering architecture as a spatial condition that enables a certain experience or change in mood or emotions, why don’t architectural structures/system understand our mental state? Is it possible to quantify architectural affect? Workflow After all findings from experiments done at the BraneSpace Lab, the following step was to get the Lab to life, to realize what what the hypothesis. Using this logic, and learning from experience patterns and data analysis, the space produces sound and light [ color ] having the users brain data. The workflow shown below displays one of the combinations, in this case, to stimulate the user to a certain threshold, then relax, to stimulate again. A healthy brain is a brain at work.
//Conclusion Cognitive neuroscience, various physiological sensors and programming power is capable of grasping signals from the human brain and the human body and transform it to an emotional state understanding. On this note, it becomes possible by gathering data on a spatial scale and overlap data of the physio- neural state to conclude with the relational efficiency through a neural network that functions as an assistant to finding these relations and create a space that responds to user’s experience/ emotions. // By linking physiological processes and mechanized assemblages directly, architecture becomes a robotic system that has unique behavioural traits and is tethered to humans; here, technology, rather than the body becomes the interface that negotiates between human cognition and a synthetic formal order of space; a transarchitecture. Architecture becomes the new body. >>> if this scheme renders architecture as a spatial construct that negotiates between human cognition and the environment through technological frameworks, the postarchitecture is the absence of this negotiation. Bibliography This diagram is more of a locus, a theoretical/technical/conceptual archeology of this project. From the early theories of autonomous architecture, artificial intelligence, participatory design, designed reality, machenization etc. to the most recent neuroscience research, put together with a combination of technologies and program, this schematic serves as an archepelago of moments, that were key to this project. Links show relation between references, in terms of collaboration, authorship, etc.
Glimpses Cutting things short, this video shows some moments in the proect, from the first experiments, the sketch aparatus, the development and further experiments.
