The Secret Life Of Buildings
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- Episode
- Work
- Broadcast Info
- 2011 (51 mins)
- Description
- Our workplaces - factories, schools or offices - should inspire us, motivate us and bring out the best of our abilities. But are these spaces doing just the opposite? This week, Dyckhoff explores how the architecture of our workspaces affect us, and makes some revelatory and shocking discoveries: how the spaces in which we spend our everyday can actually physically change our brain, why open plan offices are bad spaces to work in and what happened to bring about the current obsession with showy iconic buildings regardless of the quality of the space on the inside. On a global journey, Dyckhoff meets and challenges architects including Lord Foster and Zaha Hadid, and also sets about trying working in their buildings himself. What do the buildings do to him - and what are they doing to people in them? Is it possible to design a building that actually makes us feel happy and make us more productive? Wherever you work, you’ll never look at your workplace quite the same way again.In the first episode, Home, Dyckhoff explores how the design of our homes works secretly to influence our behaviour. Light, room size, layout, proportion and materials all have measurable effects on our lives. So why do we accept the smallest windows and the smallest room sizes in Europe? And what can we do about it?
- Genre
- Architecture; Design; Technology
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The Open University, "The Secret Life Of Buildings". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/82099 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)