Space profoundly shapes our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
I help to shape places that achieve your organization’s or community’s desired outcomes.
Together, we can create environments that help people flourish, connect, create, and reach their potential.
A great space begins with a research-based brief.
Before the first line is drawn by the architects, I help create a strategy for your space that brings your vision into the reality. This strategy then translates into the architectural brief, but also guides other participants, like communication agencies. Approaching a project consciously and with intention is not just for the big players. This process can be applied to projects of any size.
A research-based brief is created by integrating three components.
1. Your vision, goals, and plans for the project.
I help you clarify these and align the stakeholders around a common intention.
2. Understanding of your future users and their needs.
I help you build a good picture of what your project will need to deliver to satisfy its users.
3. Scientific knowledge about the impact of space on people.
I translate research studies into actionable principles that help to achieve the desired effect on people.
Why invest into creating a research-based brief?
User delight and well-being
Understand the needs of your users and provide them with an excellent spatial experience.
Increased project value
Free designers from conflict resolution, allowing them to focus on delivering value.
Design process efficiency
Align all stakeholders behind a single vision and work with a clear sense of purpose.
Market differentiation
Create spaces that stand out in the market and provide a basis for effective communication.
Selected projects.
HB Reavis: Innovative real-estate developer headquarters
theLivingCore, Gensler
Managing a 7500 m2 workplace project with 35 space types and a catalogue of innovative solutions.
City of Reykjavik: Humane and sustainable neighborhood
Brandsvik, ESJA, Arkibygg, Anna Landscape, Ístak, theLivingCore, exa nordic
Creating a concept and user-experience strategy for a planned development in Iceland.
Obdach Ester: Day center for homeless women
theLivingCore
Improving the spatial experience for the center’s clients according to trauma-informed design principles.
Steelcase: Understanding spaces for focus
HB Reavis
Using various research methods to identify key qualities of functioning spaces for concentrated work.
About me.
I am an architectural psychologist focused on creating environments that support human well-being and help people fulfill their potential. My work explores how space influences behavior, thinking, and emotional experience.
I have worked for one of Europe’s largest office developers, where I co-created the user experience strategy and co-founded an internal educational program. Later, I joined a consulting firm in Vienna, founded by cognitive scientists from the University of Vienna.
In addition to my consulting work, I am dedicated to popularizing architectural psychology and human-centered architecture and design. I publish articles, create multimedia educational content, and contribute to book publications.
I am also the co-founder of the Venetian Letter, a project focused on spreading awareness of science-based, human-centered architecture. I regularly speak at international conferences and hold lectures for architecture students.
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