Architecture and MBTI-Personality Types

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Introvert-Oriented

Extrovert-Oriented

Contained Resting Spaces: • Controlled, clustered spaces • Uses natural surroundings as envelope • Inviting qualities: cozy, minimal distance from space to space, calming

Spacious, Dynamic • Spaces are part of the landscape, integrate with surroundings • Inviting qualities: Stimulates movement, dissolves barriers and shares spaces with surroundings

Sensory Type

Intuitive Type

External-Stimuli Response • Uses energy resources from external surroundings • Uses sensory triggers from external environment • Space organization relies on external surroundings

External-Stimuli Response • Creates and synthesizes activity from inside environment • Creates and uses internal triggers for own environment • Simple and clear with an underlying pattern open to interpretation

Binary-Judging Scheme

Step-By-Step Layout • Sequential, Organized • Clean, visible, clear layout • Spaces have set, clear uses and purposes

Thinking Type

Logic-Based Decisions • Linear Plan: Uniform layout • Visual cues determine function • Follows a binary logic from getting from start to end

Perceiving Type

Multiple Choices • Dynamic, Freeform • More than one step, branches and loops and tangles • Spaces can be multifunctional, flexible and moved through in many ways

Feeling Type

Empathy based Decisions • Fluid scheme with movement in mind, drastic space changes • Resourceful and integrational with surroundings • Allows for movement and volume-combinind (Adolf Loos)



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