How Room Height Influences Your Occupants Behaviorally (Podcast)

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Design section drawings are very important because they reveal height immediately. And with height, you as an architect can accomplish some amazing things. In fact, according to Science Daily — “ceiling height can affect how a person thinks feels and acts”. In their article they explain that 10 foot ceiling heights foster occupants that tend to think more freely and abstractly, while 8 foot ceiling heights foster occupants that tend to think in a more detailed way. (1) So with this information, I encourage you to think about height within your architectural designs — by thinking about what activities you would like to promote within certain spaces, and asking yourself whether high ceilings or low ceilings would enhance or detract your occupants’ ability to engage in those activities successfully.

(1) Ceiling Height Can Affect How a Person Thinks Feels and Acts. Science Daily. April 25, 2007.

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