The report

HAS’s Human-Centric Sustainable Architecture Report addresses the continuous relationship between the built environment and its user's neurophysiological, cognitive and emotional needs.

The report focuses on two types of analysis based on non-linear iterative processes: a Design Strategy analysis and a Post-Occupancy analysis. Both are related to the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the design components and the evaluation of the design parameters that should be considered to achieve the desired individual and social outcome of the user’s experience in a specific building.

EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN

The uniqueness of each project and the variables that differentiate them will be informed by Evidence-Based Design (EBD) through Design Thinking methodologies and neuroscientific research that studies the design features that impact and resonate the most with the mechanisms of the human nervous system and the specific context in which it is embedded.

ENHANCING WELL-BEING

Our approach is to envision the design layouts and attributes of each building not only for developing the intended activities to be performed in it and narrowed to risk-avoidance concerns but also for contributing to enhancing their users’ productivity, creativity and restoration while fostering preventive health in its habitants.

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Our goal is to deliver design principles that promote environments which provide people with opportunities to improve their experiences, contribute to their physical and emotional health, and foster their well-being to flourish and thrive by shifting towards a synergistic approach of enriched environments and attuned positive stimuli.