https://jest.vgtu.lt/index.php/JAU/issue/feed 2024-09-13T18:27:54+03:00 Prof. Almantas Liudas Samalavičius almantas.liudas.samalavicius@vilniustech.lt Open Journal Systems <p>The Journal of Architecture and Urbanism publishes original research on all aspects of urban architecture. <a href="https://journals.vilniustech.lt/index.php/JAU/about">More information ...</a></p> https://jest.vgtu.lt/index.php/JAU/article/view/18808 2024-09-11T11:26:42+03:00 Prasasto Satwiko prasasto.satwiko@uajy.ac.id Supra Wimbarti supra@ugm.ac.id Brigitta Michelle 205403240@students.uajy.ac.id Mutiara Cininta mutiara.cininta@uajy.ac.id

<p>As with the other creative and design industries, architecture is mainly aimed to solve users’ needs. However, in the current practice, the design transformation process is less responsive to user feedback and primarily relies on the architect’s perceptual skill that tends to be subjective. Innovative architectural problem-solving strategies can be derived from neuroscience knowledge, allowing a more scientifically proven user-centered design. The interdisciplinary collaboration in architecture design, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence may offer a new concept generation to design our built environment. The neuroarchitecture design approach, combined with artificial intelligence engineering, can create an environment that produces impulses that directly affect the human brain’s response and induce happiness. Endorphin, called the happy hormone, can be stimulated to develop happy feelings essential for today’s stressful life. This theoretical study aims to determine how architectural elements affect happiness through endorphin stimulation. An interdisciplinary literature study involving architecture and neuropsychology of both theoretical and methodological was adopted to explore this possibility. The result showed that the architectural environment could generate happiness, potentially indicating the endorphin presence. This study recommends using Virtual Reality apparatus to experiment and a blood test to check the endorphin level in the human body.</p>

2024-08-22T00:00:00+03:00 Copyright (c) 2024 The Author(s). Published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. https://jest.vgtu.lt/index.php/JAU/article/view/20743 2024-09-13T18:27:54+03:00 Lejla Vujičić lejlavujicic@gmail.com

<p>Giuseppe Samonà was one of the most influential figures in 20th century Italian architecture and urban culture. In 1967, Samonà and his team submitted a competition proposal for the extension of the Camera dei deputati in Rome, considered by many to be one of the most significant and conceptually mature projects of his career. By examining the design and the report appended to the competition submittal the author explores the concept of the void that is the backbone of the project and finds that it has a twofold interpretation. Apart from the obvious physical manifestation of emptying, the void is also a meditative device, an incorporeal entity that relies on the body of the new insert to show the complexity of the history of the Roman site. It is in this inversion of the usual interpretation of the concept of void as being independent nothingness that allure of the project itself lies. By presenting the archival material and contemporary research, the author brings into focus a part of Samonà’s extraordinary contribution to the architecture and urban culture of the 20th century that surprisingly remains unrevealed to non-Italian audiences.</p>

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