The Effect of Neuroscience on the Formation of Biodigital Space
Abstract
Studies in the rapidly developing neuroscience field in the early 21st century provide knowledge about the sensory stimuli the body receives from the environment. From a neurobiological perspective, loops and feedback are interconnected in the brain with matching internal sensory and motor maps. Neuroscience can help architects and neuroscientists design future spaces by interpreting experience and spatial transformation. Through neuroscience principles, space's network structure can be explored. It can enable the space, having a network structure, to transmit dynamically in its structural system. In this research, space’s possibility as a self-generating system is examined through autopoiesis, explaining organismic body and life formation concepts. Establishing a relationship between the reproduction life parameters and space design by coding knowledge through digital experiments is aimed since life, vitality, and evolution are code sets. Space understanding with the organismic body increases its sensitivity and offers an opportunity for a re-discussion of space understanding.
Keywords
Architectural design, neuroscience, connective integrity, biodigital formation, autopoiesis
Supporting Institution
GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY AND IZMIR YAŞAR UNIVERSITY
Thanks
This article was presented at the ATI2022 'De-Constructing and Re-Using Architecture' Symposium and published in summary only. This article was produced from the master thesis of the first author under the supervision of the second author in 2023 at Gebze Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Architecture. The article complies with national and international research and publication ethics. Ethics committee approval is not required for this study.
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