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Beyond Function: Emotions In Architecture

Author(s) Ms. Aditi Songara
Country India
Abstract Emotional architecture is the idea that space does not simply surround us it acts upon us. That buildings are not just containers for human beings, they are active shapers of it contributing to how we feel, how we behave and how we understand ourselves in the world. Architects have always known this subconsciously. What is newer is the attempt to understand why, to trace the mechanisms through which design produces feeling, and to ask what really makes a human feel different emotion.
This paper moves through the key elements through which architecture communicates with emotions. It examines how different elements like light, material, scale, color, sound, water, spatial layout etc deployed differently can move a person through vastly different emotional states. Warm natural light produces something close to joy while the same room under cold fluorescent light produces something closer to anxiety. Raw concrete carries a weight that polished wood does not these are not just accidental effects. They are the vocabulary of emotional architecture, and this paper attempts to read them carefully.
This paper argues that it is worth paying attention.
This paper examines that relationship. It traces the idea of emotional architecture the intentional and capacity of the built environment to influence how people feel from its theoretical foundations to its practical expression in the design decisions that define the spaces we inhabit daily. Looking into the work of renowned architects like Tadao Ando, Alvar Aalto, Daniel Libeskind, etc. and on Robert Plutchik's model of human emotion, it argues that architecture is never emotionally neutral that every design decision made consciously or not contributes to the emotional world. The paper also acknowledging that emotional architecture is not a precise science but that imprecision is not the same as irrelevance.
Keywords Emotional Architecture, Environmental Psychology, Human-centred Design, Spatial Perception, Built Environment.
Published In Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-06-04
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i03.80317
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