Architecture Phsycology

Abstract

: Although the WHO (World Health Organization) and psychologists warned architects, some colleagues insist on designing apartment houses with the traditional space organization. Thermal comfort and human psychology, are not taken into consideration at all. It is far from sustainable architecture to produce more than necessary and low-cost flats on the land used. During the Pandemic Process we live in today, people of all ages are not obeying the “stay at home, stay healthy” warnings and other prohibitions imposed by the medical community, this is due to the fact that people do not feel a sense of belonging to the house they live in. The duty of modern architects, is to design more livable environments. In this article, two examples, one positive and the other negative, are discussed as field work for a better understanding of psychological architecture. The first example is the Pruitt-Igoe site in the city of St. Louis in USA. The second comparative example is the Samanbahce houses in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, made of adobe brick, a traditional building material for families with insufficient financial means.