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NEURODESIGN® · MATERIAL CLASS · STONE AND EARTH
Marble
Metamorphosed carbonate with visible veining and, in pale varieties, subsurface light scattering.
Decisive attributes
The attributes that most determine how this class behaves and how it is experienced. No values are shown, because a value belongs to a product and not to a class. Two products of the same material can differ from each other by more than the material differs from its neighbours.
Typical application
Bathrooms. Cladding. Countertops.
Worth watching
Translucency is a defining specification criterion for pale marble and there is no standard method for measuring it.
Evidence
No record in the research corpus tests human response to this material class. Its physical behaviour may be well understood and its properties may be entirely predictable from the attributes above. That is a different thing from evidence that a person responds to it, and this library does not convert one into the other. The absence is shown rather than filled.
Outcomes it could bear on
Outcomes whose material levers overlap this class. This is a structural relationship in the ontology, not a finding: it says the property is relevant to the outcome, not that this material produces it.
- Aesthetic preferencevia Batch variation
- Autonomic downregulationvia Thermal effusivity
- Cognitive load from the environmentvia Batch variation
- Footing confidencevia Specular gloss
- Glare and visual comfortvia Specular gloss
- Perceived cleanlinessvia Specular gloss
- Perceived spaciousnessvia Within-surface contrast
- Perceived warmth of a spacevia Thermal effusivity
- Restoration from attentional fatiguevia Within-surface contrast
- Sensory load tolerancevia Within-surface contrast
- Sleep onset and continuityvia Thermal effusivity
- Sustained attentionvia Within-surface contrast
- Thermal comfort at contactvia Thermal effusivity
- Wayfinding and orientationvia Within-surface contrast