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How do we meditate?

Does Virtual Reality Allow Essay Participants Better Conditions to Get Information Regarding the Perception of Architectural Contexts?

ABSTRACT : This article integrates a research project that aims to understand the architectonic contexts’ influence on meditation practice. One of the phases of the project refers to meditation practitioners’ emotional reactions to a set of architectonic contexts using Kansei. Accordingly, we will use the Kansei inquiry method which allows the creation of predictive models that relate characteristics of architectonic contexts with the expected reactions of meditation practitioners. The more productive type of approach, real scale models, might be unpractical due to the high costs of implementation. The aim of this article is first to establish a conviction about which of the two ways of presenting models might be better for getting this information. Under these two conditions, 30 participants who practice meditation, 15 with PowerPoint (PP) and 15 with virtual reality (VR), classified 10 architectonic contexts on how they may be influencing their will to practice meditation. These 10 ...

M-term Architectonic Context and Meditation Practitioners: A Concept to Be Implemented in an Informatic Application to Help Architects

ABSTRACT: In the cities of industrialized countries, long-term stress with effects on physical andmental health is considered a problem.Meditation shows effective therapeutic benefits to physical, and in some cases, mental health. There is some neuroscientific evidence, and traditional belief, that certain buildings may induce contemplative experiences. The creation of these buildings by architects might be mainly based in cultural, aesthetic and even poetic assumptions. Assumptions that some-times might be in contradiction to the real needs of its users. We verify the necessity of an approach to determine howmedium-term meditation practitioners’ behavior could be influenced by the architectural context. Our main objective is to propose the development of a concept for an informatic application that supports architects in planning decisions concerning architectonic contexts for meditation in urban environments. A concept that should allow architects to know which visual, haptic, and ...

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How do architectonic contexts' characteristics influence perception in meditation practitioners?

The preservation of Tibetan monasteries as a source of inspiration for meditation practice; Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling in Nepal (2023)

ABSTRACT : Recently, meditation has been worldwide used as a contribution to generally improve our mental and physical health. Psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists have been interested in assessing its benefits in healing mental and even physical diseases. In monasteries such as Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling in Nepal, the architecture, and its details, such as statues, frescos etc., reveal a vision on freedom from suffering. This vison arises when we free ourselves from the grip of the usual idea of space and time, which this ensemble of buildings might facilitate. This study aims at exploring the ways this monastery might influence meditation practice. Furthermore, we wish to reflect on the matter, not only using strong concepts on the subject and basing ourselves on literature review, but also analyzing our own experience as practitioners. We argue that this possible influence might become very important to the success of meditation practice. In conclusion, we are most ...

Luis Barragán: Color as a means for introspection (2021)

ABSTRACT : Luis Barragán has done with his work an exhaustive study of color. In the Chapel for the Capuchinhas Sacramentarias del Purisimo Corazón de Maria and Convent Restoration (1952–1955), Barragán has done a reflection on color applied to the sacred. Barragán seems to have made very personal color choices. His choices might be subjective, but they are also intersubjective. And as this space seems to have qualities for meditation practice. We aim to understand how the use of the color palette in this Chapel enhances introspection. The research was based on literature review and the use of images from the Chapel. We looked for balance, harmony principles, and symbology in Barragán’s choice of colors. For this we used Goethe, Chevreul, and Ostwald classifications. This chapter expects to contribute a critical basis for future color composition in rooms destined for introspection. LINK PARA O ARTIGO

Comparative analysis of the luminous performance of fenestration with Japanese paper and glazing with a polymeric film in meditation rooms (2019)

ABSTRACT : In Japan, Shôji has been used in fenestration that communicate with the exterior in rooms for meditation practice. This Japanese paper seems to be geared towards filtering the amount of solar light adequate to meditation practice. In the West, it has been replaced with adhesive polymeric film, such as Japanese paper, imitating the Shôji, which can be used in external glazings. In this study, the effect of replacing the Shôji with this polymeric film will be analysed through a set of experimental tests conducted in reduced scale models. We look forward to having the intelligence to be creative enough to find new solutions to the problems that are emerging in this field. So, in these models, the Japanese paper solution will be applied and, in parallel, another model, with a 6 mm single clear glazing, with and without the adhesive film, will be tested. The tests will be carried out in an external environment, during the Winter and Summer equinoxes and the Spring solstice, to ob...