FLUID MECHANICS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PRESSURE: ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS OF SEQUENTIAL SPACES AND EFFECTS ON HUMAN PERCEPTION THROUGH A CFD CODE

The psychological pressure, a quality of the surrounding space, is comparable to the pressure that, in a fluid in motion, varies depending on obstacles which meets. The variability of dynamic pressure along a path influences the difference of psychological pressure given by a sequence of spaces having different qualities. By analyzing the perceptions of representative sample, It is possible to get to the formulation of the equation of psychological well-being, which spells out an index on the average value of psychological feeling of votes cast by a representative sample of people in reference to a volumetric scale of values. This research highlights the relationship between the psychological warnings generated by a sequence of architectural spaces and the psychological response given by users; and clarifies, by a finite differences code, the relationship between the dynamic pressure, objective variable, with the psychological feeling, subjective variable, expressed by the users of that architecture.