architecture
Speed, Stress, and Spend
Most environments don’t just contain behaviour—they produce it. This image reveals how design quietly creates zones of compulsion and zones of choice within the same space.
When You Can’t Leave: Designing for the Flight Reflex in Airports, Venues, and Hospitals
In high-stimulus public spaces, our bodies do more than react – they strategise.
Airports, hospitals, and stadiums all evoke subtle “Flight” responses: scanning, pacing, early exits.
Understanding how threat appraisal drives behaviour can help architects and planners design calmer spaces – and reveal why relaxation, not excitement, predicts dwell, spend, and satisfaction.
This architect needs therapy
Bathrooms at Astoria London
Hôtel Solvay, Victor Horta
