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Music and Sound as a Tool into Designing Healthier Environment

Music reaches us, it touches us to the heart. To understand music, oneself should understand space, because without space, there is no sound, therefore no music, at least not as we perceive it. In dependence of the surface, sound wave collides and reverberates from it, giving us more information than just sound itself. By the way sound echoes in the space we perceive it as cold, cosy, spacious, narrow, etc., and in that way it makes an impression on our subconscious level. We can feel anxious, happy, fearful, or even irritable. It is well known that music may improve quality of life and wellbeing, but also has different effects on body functions, such as increase or decrease of heart rate, its variability. Music emphasis and rhythmic phrases can be tracked consistently by physiological variables. In dependence of oneself and his belonging lifestyle, different sounds and music have different effect on individual wellbeing. Our brain autonomic responses (ABR) are synchronized with sounds and music surrounding us. Following the sound piece our brain corresponds within the changes inside the piece itself, and by the way sound travels through architectural space it enhances its experiences on perceiver. Mental and physical wellbeing is affected by the places in which we live, work and play. We have to design spaces for all senses and be aware of new digital age in which we are living and presence of new available technologies. This technologies can be an add- on in design process and existing architecture. Our aim is to make architects become aware of influence of sound in the space they are designing, and its impact on health and wellbeing of beneficiary, and also on procreation of healthy environment. Can architecture be a living organism, which changes following the atmosphere around beneficiary and sounds surrounding them?

sound ; healthy environment ; new technologies ; hearer ; ABR (autonomic brain responses)

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