Neuroscience + built environment · NSAG applied
NARCH — Neuroarchitecture Advisory
NSAG applied component · release-blocked
Ground built-environment decisions in peer-reviewed neuroscience and auditable evidence.
What I noticed
Architecture and planning teams often invoke wellbeing, biophilia, cognition, or healing without a traceable link between a specific design choice, a specific source, and an observable post-occupancy result. The problem is not simply access to research; it is the absence of governance infrastructure that makes a design rationale reviewable across clients, grantmakers, planning bodies, and building users.
What I researched
NARCH applies NSAG modules M5, M7, and M10 through six assessment dimensions: evidence documentation, biophilic-design integration, acoustic and sensory governance, post-occupancy evaluation, equity and access, and grant or approval documentation. The public concept also distinguishes direct, indirect, and spatial biophilic elements; separates input-oriented certifications from measured outcomes; and proposes evidence grading and primary-source briefs as the connective tissue between research and design decisions.
What exists
An advisory framework for translating neuroscience into client, design, and grant-facing built-environment decisions.
Who it serves
Architects, developers, institutions, designers, and funders.
What it demonstrates
Neuroscience synthesis, built-environment governance, audit-ready evidence, and applied-practice design.
Current evidence
The live NSAG-applied concept verifies the six-dimension framework, readiness diagnostic, signal-versus-noise guidance, glossary, hypothetical before-and-after examples, engagement architecture, and proposed Biophilic Evidence Audit. It does not verify that an audit, advisory engagement, workshop, post-occupancy evaluation, grant filing, or cited outcome has been delivered or independently validated. Claims about study volume, biological effects, percentage outcomes, standards, certifications, and source currency require source-by-source scientific and professional review before use in a project. NARCH does not establish architectural licensure, accreditation, regulatory approval, or a guarantee of health, cognitive, planning, grant, or building-performance outcomes.
Verified build record
What is actually running, and what it is not.
PausedRelease review open · public link held
The problem. Neuro-aware design claims are easy to make and rarely tested. A building gets described as calming, and nothing in the process ever asks what observation would have shown otherwise.
What it does. Structures spatial observation into evidence-aware design hypotheses, runs an accessibility review, prioritises the resulting changes, and sets up post-occupancy measurement so a hypothesis can be checked after the space is occupied.
Built on. A static browser application with local persistence, plus privacy and terms pages, served from Vercel.
What it does not establish. A structured observation and hypothesis tool. Not an accessibility certification and not a code compliance review.
Public link held. The public link is held pending the release review recorded against this build. The deployment answers, and its content is described above, but it is not promoted from this site until that review clears.
This record is generated from the same inventory as the complete build index: the production URL was checked at the last regeneration, and the status line above repeats what the build reports about itself rather than restating an intention.