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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