MAR LLORENS
Neuro-Aarchitecture Classroom Design
2019-2021
2019-2021
Classroom design as a powerful tool to enhance student's cognitive processes
Classroom design as a powerful tool to enhance student's cognitive processes
Currently, the dropout rate at the university is 32% in Spain, which represents a loss of 1,500 million euros per year. In this regard, our interdisciplinary research combining knowledge of architecture and behavioural sciences aims to establish an optimal methodology that enhances the cognitive processes of students, and thus their academic results. This innovative approach analyses light, colour and shape in order to define an optimal design of learning spaces. In this research line, our group has already achieved much progress in evaluating the response of the students through neurophysiological and traditional psychometric measurements. We have also used simulation technologies such as virtual reality to reproduce the experiences under evaluation. Our previous results have demonstrated that physical parameters such as light and colour individually influence the cognitive functions of students. Nevertheless, the synergistic effect of these variables together with the effect of shape has never been studied before in literature. Therefore, our current neuro-architectural project is based on the combined study of these design variables in order to determine the optimal values which are able to enhance the learning process. This novel approach could be applied in any space which requires the use of memory, attention and motivation.
Currently, the dropout rate at the university is 32% in Spain, which represents a loss of 1,500 million euros per year. In this regard, our interdisciplinary research combining knowledge of architecture and behavioural sciences aims to establish an optimal methodology that enhances the cognitive processes of students, and thus their academic results. This innovative approach analyses light, colour and shape in order to define an optimal design of learning spaces. In this research line, our group has already achieved much progress in evaluating the response of the students through neurophysiological and traditional psychometric measurements. We have also used simulation technologies such as virtual reality to reproduce the experiences under evaluation. Our previous results have demonstrated that physical parameters such as light and colour individually influence the cognitive functions of students. Nevertheless, the synergistic effect of these variables together with the effect of shape has never been studied before in literature. Therefore, our current neuro-architectural project is based on the combined study of these design variables in order to determine the optimal values which are able to enhance the learning process. This novel approach could be applied in any space which requires the use of memory, attention and motivation.