Directed by Laura Ulloa, BfNA explores and designs for the reciprocal dynamics between environments, cognition and collective adaptation.
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines / feasibility study
Feasibility study for a confidential project in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.Confidential · Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Île-de-France
Typology: feasibility study · 2020 · Confidential project · Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines · Studio Fuksas.
CONFIDENTIAL URBAN ADAPTATION: As a disclosed Grand Paris feasibility project, the neural reading must remain cautious: redevelopment is considered through legibility, stress reduction, mobility thresholds and the interruption of peripheral spatial monotony.
URBAN PREDICTION [S1][S2][L1]: Because the project is confidential, the neural claim is intentionally methodological rather than descriptive. BfNA reads suburban regeneration through orientation, affordance, perceptual safety and adaptive behaviour: how the built environment can reduce cognitive uncertainty without becoming behavioural control. Gibson's affordance theory, Djebbara et al.'s architectural-affordance studies and Friston's active-inference framework support this reading. Derrida remains relevant only as interruption: not continuous flow, but the capacity of an urban project to break inherited spatial automatisms and open new praxis.
SOCIAL: Confidential project; social value is limited to internal feasibility assessment and programme testing.
ROI: Confidential feasibility work; value lies in risk reduction, scenario testing and early assessment of urban, environmental and programme constraints.
Confidential project; no applied R&D claim should be made beyond feasibility, scenario testing and environmental constraint mapping.
Confidential project; no public project details beyond office/feasibility context. Theoretical sources: James J. Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979) · Zakaria Djebbara et al. (2019), "Sensorimotor brain dynamics reflect architectural affordances", PNAS, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1900648116, https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1900648116 · Zakaria Djebbara, Lars Brorson Fich & Klaus Gramann (2021), Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82504-w, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82504-w · Karl Friston (2010), Nature Reviews Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1038/nrn2787.
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