SMELL
Olfactory harmony is designed
The sense of smell plays a significant role in the multisensory approach to architectural design. It creates environments that arouse emotions. They stimulate memory. They affect the well-being of users. The use of natural materials such as wood or the inclusion of plants brings pleasant odors and scents to the environments that give warmth and authenticity. Smells and perfumes are strongly linked to memory and cultural identity. In architectural design it is possible to integrate olfactory traces that recall local or historical traditions. They help create an emotional and coherent bond between people and places.
Olfactory design:
The perfume draws the spaces
Hanging gardens not only offer environmental and aesthetic benefits, but enrich the olfactory sensory experience through the use of aromatic plants.
With the change of seasons, the terrace is transformed into a lively panorama of colours and scents.
Walking among the plants of a roof garden means immersing yourself in a world of fragrances, where the sense of smell is stimulated by the delicate scents of herbs and flowers.
These aromas create a link between the architectural environment and nature, offering moments of serenity and well-being. Roof gardens thus become olfactory shelters that enrich our perception and improve the quality of life.
The olfactory design: hear before you see
It is the most primordial of the 5 senses.
A long time before we went around with our eyes fixed on our smartphones, we went around smelling things, smelling each other.
It is a very immediate sense, since the information relating to an odour reaches our neurons in a very short time.
It is also a sense strongly linked to memory, because smell and memory reside in the same areas of the brain. In addition to stimulating our memories, who has never stopped because the scent of a cake reminded him of his grandmother or the smell of the sea his childhood?
