Nataly Arévalo
PhD in Environmental Design
Bio
Nataly is a PhD in environmental design, urban researcher, and lecturer. She applies evidence-based from environmental behaviour into architecture and urban design. Her inspiration to pursue the field of environmental behaviour initiated by her parents who practice architecture and psychology. Another motivation to connect the human mind with the environment sparked during her career as a semi-professional triathlete back in her native country - Ecuador. Through both motives she understood the importance of training our minds to feel better in our environments where we work, live, and play. Since then, she has carried out intercontinental research focused on achieving higher levels of community wellbeing and supporting on the translation of people’s views into design and policymaking. Particularly, she conducts research around the fields of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), neuroarchitecture, and environmental psychology channelling into the development of publications, workshops, training, and design studio curriculums. Currently she explores a better way to bridge the fields of Architecture and Psychology engaging in conversations published on this site.
My set of architectural and social researcher skills provides the following contributions to my professional practice:
• Elaboration of post-occupancy evaluations, frameworks, and engagement strategies
• Research formulation, design, reporting to inform urban/architectural policy-making
• Assisting in the development, assessment, and implementation of strategic public space projects
• Development of teaching approaches to survey public spaces and translate them into designs.
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Personal Manifest
Architectural designs have the ability to increase the well-being of their occupants. City and building designs can be transformed into profitable and comfortable spaces by raising the occupant's levels of physical, mental, emotional and social health. So why not to embrace the psychology of the occupants as promoter of architectural designs?
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'Architectural Psychology' is the term I use to specify the study of the built environment within the field of Environmental Psychology. Architectural psychology principles bridge the gap between architectural practice and the building occupants psychology. Thus, this is a forum where you can find conversations, research, publications, and training that can shape psychological-driven architectural designs.
