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Six ways into 136 records. The two that matter most are evidence strength and translation distance, and they are meant to be read together: a strong mechanism can still sit several inferential steps from a decision about a building.
Terms shown without a count carry no source yet. They are left visible on purpose. The taxonomy states what the corpus intends to cover, so an empty term is a search that has not been run.
Evidence strength 6
How much weight a finding can carry on its own, from replicated human evidence down to early exploratory work. Read it alongside translation distance, never on its own.
Translation distance 5
How many inferential steps sit between what a study actually measured and a claim about a building. A strong mechanism can still be several steps away from a design decision.
Field 17
The discipline a source belongs to, from direct neuroarchitecture through to public health and exposure science.
- Biophilia + restoration30
- Acoustics + soundscape24
- Workplace design22
- Sleep science20
- Neuroarchitecture19
- Thermal environment19
- Visual cognition19
- Environmental psychology18
- Indoor air quality13
- Lighting + circadian13
- Neuroaesthetics11
- Spatial cognition10
- Healthcare design8
- Educational environments7
- Materials + haptics6
- Public health + exposure science5
- Olfaction4
Mechanism 34
The route by which an environment is proposed to act on a person: attention, autonomic state, circadian timing, spatial coding and the rest.
- Cognitive load30
- Autonomic stress recovery23
- Directed-attention fatigue / restoration23
- Physiological relaxation9
- Sleep disruption9
- Multisensory congruence8
- Circadian phase response7
- Privacy regulation7
- Threat appraisal7
- Ventilation dilution7
- Working-memory interference7
- Arousal + activation6
- Scene semantics6
- Thermoregulation + sleep6
- Fractal fluency5
- Visual complexity5
- Glymphatic transport4
- Speech interference4
- Grid coding3
- Reward valuation3
- Social encounter probability3
- Boundary coding2
- Dose-response2
- Embodied prediction2
- ipRGC / melanopsin response2
- Prospect-refuge response2
- Scene grammar2
- Source control2
- Speech intelligibility2
- Cognitive-map distortion1
- Habituation / adaptation1
- Landmark encoding1
- Perceived control1
- Rumination1
no source yet: Odor-evoked memory. See research gaps.
Spatial variable 42
The thing an architect can actually specify: ceiling height, ventilation rate, reverberation time, spectral content, wood exposure.
- Air temperature13
- Sensory congruence8
- Workspace enclosure8
- Ventilation rate7
- Boundary geometry6
- Refuge / enclosure6
- Fractal dimension5
- Patient room type5
- Prospect5
- Visual complexity5
- Daylight exposure4
- Speech content4
- Background noise level3
- Bed microclimate3
- CO2 concentration3
- Humidity3
- Indoor vegetation3
- Occupant density3
- Reverberation time3
- View content3
- Wood exposure3
- Ceiling height2
- Circulation configuration2
- Curvature2
- Light spectrum2
- Natural sound2
- Object placement2
- Scent / odor2
- Speech transmission / STI2
- Visibility2
- Air speed1
- Exterior environmental noise1
- Landmarks1
- Legibility1
- Light level1
- Light timing1
- Mean radiant temperature1
- Novelty1
- PM2.5 / particles1
- Proximity1
- Room aspect ratio1
- VOCs1
no source yet: Acoustic privacy, Air quality perception, Material texture, Spatial transitions, Visual privacy, Window-to-wall ratio, Wood orientation / grain. See research gaps.
Source type 9
What kind of evidence the record is, collapsed into families. Reviews and meta-analyses overlap by design, so their study counts are ingestion queues rather than additive totals.