Assumption 6: Amenities promote perseverance
what may seem like a small thing during design - an ergonomic chair, for instance, or a pleasant view from the break room - can make a world of difference to a bleary-eyed researcher after 10-12 hours of work …. People are more creative, productive, and content when they are physically and mentally comfortable.- “Designing Laboratories for Effective Research” by Darrell Comeaux with Miriam B. Swift and Jim Avant. BioProcess International, February 2005.
Revisiting the initial goals for this study:
- We began with the premise that architecture affects human experience.
- Through the interview process, we are able to define more specifically the experience of the Krasnow cognitive scientist.
- Armed with this knowledge, we can design more informed and enriched environments that resonate with this specific experience. We can make laboratories more livable.
Crucial to making "laboratories more livable" is:
Assumption 6: Amenities promote perseverance.
Amenities ensuring security and personal comfort are essential because they offer stability and sustenance to the independently motivated lifestyle and the taxing, irregular schedule of the Krasnow cognitive scientist. Certainly the work and the end results are motivational rewards, but there has to be some crumbs along the way to get there. We bring to Krasnow our personal habits / rituals of endurance such as: drinking coffee, tai-chi, napping, smoking … and the building / site accommodates them (to some degree). Krasnow in turn provides its own amenities, which are adopted by its users, have become important to them, and aid in perseverance: the woodlands, the Great Room, kitchen, the Lunch Room, art….
To that list we must include the architectural basics: security, acoustics, natural lighting, ventilation and thermal comfort.
posted by Meredith Banasiak, ANFA @ 5:12 PM
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