Neuroarchitecture · Research
Graduate Research Program
A scholarly inquiry into how the spaces we inhabit shape the biology we live with — and how that relationship can be designed for one body at a time.
Program
Master in Neuroarchitecture at SHIFTA, 2026 – 2027. A practice-based program examining architecture through the lens of neuroscience, physiology, and human behavior.
Thesis direction
The built environment as a modifiable exposome. Investigating how sensory ergonomics, informed by individual genetics, can influence epigenetic expression and support healthy aging and longevity.
Methods
Within-subject repeated designs, continuous physiology, spatial telemetry, and genotype-informed environmental profiling.
Core philosophy
Space is not a neutral container. It is a continuous signal.
Light, acoustics, air, thermal range, and material tactility are not merely comfort variables — they are inputs the body reads and responds to across epigenetic, metabolic, and neurological pathways. My research treats the built environment as a modifiable exposome: a set of exposures we can intentionally shape to support, rather than erode, human performance over a lifetime.
By pairing sensory genotype with spatial phenotype, the work asks how architecture can move from universal standards to n=1 ergonomics — environments calibrated to the physiological terrain of the person inhabiting them.
Research scope
Genetics-informed sensory ergonomics for longevity
The thesis explores how neuroarchitectural interventions can be targeted to individual sensory and metabolic profiles, with a particular interest in healthy aging and longevity. Rather than asking what space is comfortable on average, it asks what space is performance-supportive for a specific body — today, and across decades.
This bridges environmental design with preventive physiology: using spatial data as one layer of a multi-omic posture, where the goal is to slow adverse drift and extend the window of resilient function.
Collaborators welcome
If you are working at the edge of space and physiology, I would love to hear from you.
I am especially interested in conversations with human performance researchers, neuroscientists, software and hardware developers, and architectural firms exploring evidence-based, health-centered design. Whether you have a dataset, a method, a site, or simply a shared curiosity, this research is open to collaboration.
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