Cheryl Atkinson
Associate Professor
Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
Department of Architectural Science
Toronto, Ontario
catkinson@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 556480
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Cheryl Atkinson's research focuses on how the buildings we inhabit affect us emotionally or psychologically through phenomenology: the study of how a building's composition, proportion, materials and colours come together and make us feel and think. The impact can be major. Because of its psychol...
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Bio/Research
Cheryl Atkinson's research focuses on how the buildings we inhabit affect us emotionally or psychologically through phenomenology: the study of how a building's composition, proportion, materials and colours come together and make us feel and think. The impact can be major. Because of its psychological effect, for example, access to daylight and a view has been proven to help reduce the mental stress of hospital patients. At the same time, tile colour, material texture and the arrangement of space can delight, comfort or exhilarate us.
Through the incorporation of "free space"– well-designed places inside and outside of our buildings to lounge and interact – Atkinson points out that social connections can also be forged through architecture, and she encourages her students to include this type of design in every project.
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Through the incorporation of "free space"– well-designed places inside and outside of our buildings to lounge and interact – Atkinson points out that social connections can also be forged through architecture, and she encourages her students to include this type of design in every project.
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