T R U E H O M E
A Revolutionary New Approach to Design
See our New York Times article about the Truehome process!
Truehome (patent pending) is a systematic process for developing criteria for building designs that are tailored to the exact needs of their inhabitants.
It was developed over a decade in the design practice of Sentient Architecture’s Managing Partner, Christopher K. Travis. It originated from a very simple observation...that a "home" is not a building, but an emotional experience. From a scientific point of view, a "home" is a suite of emotional responses emerging from the brain of the inhabitant in response to environmental cues.
Beginning in early 2006, Mr. Travis formed a company called Nidiant Corporation for the purpose of converting what had been a written workshop into a software application that could take this technology to the Internet. The result was a new website call Truehome.
If you are interested in learning more about the relationship between your home and your brain, you can visit Mr. Travis’ private blog Architecture of Life where the subject is discussed in detail. Or you can visit Learn section on the Truehome.net website.
Sentient
Architecture was the beta testing site for Truehome technology and has used the
method with clients successfully for many years.
All
Sentient Architecture residential clients are required to participate in this
process not only because it produces a more fitting design, but also because
the process is considerably more effective than traditional programming
methods, and the firm’s fees a based in part on this competitive advantage.
Sentient also uses adapted techniques where appropriate to develop criteria for
its commercial projects.
A positive experience of home comes when the features of that
intimate environment elicit constructive emotional responses, in other words,
allow the inhabitant to feel comfortable, relaxed, safe, empowered and
self-expressed. Each individual, and each family system, responds in unique ways
to features of a living space. When a person undertakes a home building or home
improvement project, relationships with a spouse, with children, and with
professionals can also prove complicated.
Truehome is designed to help people
discover their unique needs in this area of life, and then enable them to
create a home that is tailored in great detail to those needs. The
information collected by Truehome exercises allows them to make better
decisions when they decide to buy, design and build, remodel or redecorate
their homes.
Here is what one national expert on the brain has to say
about Truehome.
" Truehome has captured a coalescence of the behavioral and brain sciences
that allows the creation of a living environment that is truly a home, one
that nourishes our psychological needs and enhances our biological state
at the same time.
"Truehome is a credible tool that seeks out the design that
will prove to be nurturing to our needs, and allows us to heal when
necessary, to take refuge from the stresses of work and the world at
large, and to regain our equilibrium. Clinical intuition supports Travis'
work in this regard but, more importantly, the behavioral and brain
sciences both lead me to believe it will be effective as a strategy for the
design of positive, progressive, healing environments for living."
Cecil Reynolds, PhD - Internationally
known expert in psychological testing and assessment, author of The Handbook of School Psychology,
and the Encyclopedia of Special
Education, past president of the National Academy of
Neuropsychology and the author of the Test of Memory and Learning (TOMAL), one
of the most widely used psychological testing tools in the
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TRUEHOME beta IS LIVE ON THE
INTERNET NOW!
Truehome.net
launched in August of 2007. It is still going through focus group testing but a
FREE TRIAL and its first
two products are available now in a “beta” form. The products currently
available are designed to help clients who are interested in buying a new home,
though they also collect considerable date related to home design.
Truehome’s Professional Matching Service,
and its higher level products – those oriented towards projects like
remodeling, redecorating, and designing and building a home – will be launched
in 2008.
A WORKSHOP BEST DELIVERED BY A TEAM
Truehome technology is designed to support the professional
services of design
professionals, real estate
professionals and mental
health professionals. Truehome’s breakthrough method recommends that
therapists and design professional’s team up to identify the needs of their
clients.
Certification programs and ethical standards are planned to
maintain professional ethics. The design team in all trials
during research included a mental health professional, in several cases a
Ph.D. clinical psychologist. Nidiant supports professional standards in both
the architecture community and in the mental health community.
Truehome explores ideas that lead
to the construction of living spaces that empower and support those
who live within them to grow towards a better relationship
themselves, others and the biosphere as a whole.
Mr. Travis and the Truehome team are seeking to create
a living, adaptive, holistic, communal, and transformational
community which aids individuals not only in designing their homes, but in
designing the lives they wish to live.
Persons interested in participating should contact Chris Travis at
chris.travis@Nidiant.com.
