Quantifying Spatial Wellbeing; Bilge’s SENSELAB Strategy (Humane Architecture - recorded on 4/6/2026). The host for this show was Martin Despang. The guest was Bilge Kobas.
The discussion was: This show is following up with the previous one with Bilge Kobas Research Associate at the Chair for Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design, Technical University of Munich. Bilge is an architect (Istanbul Technical University, ITU, 2008) with a master’s degree in Sustainable Environmental Design (ITU, 2011 & AA, 2013). Her PhD is about developing and testing the methodologies behind her TUM SenseLab. Her relentless ultimate goal is to understand how physiological data can play a role in understanding the impact of thermal environments on the human body. One of her research areas is testing different methods on measuring a variety of physiological data, different experimental design criterion, understanding what to measure, how and when, to start with. She is especially interested in the impact of time on thermal physiology and how it can be key to identify adaptive strategies for the human body together with the built environment.
This show is sharing the first show of Bilge’s pitch presentations to make sense of her SENSELAB as her laboratory as part of the Chair for Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design at TUM the Technical University of Munich. Bilge is walking you through the means and methods of her laboratory and methodology to replace the misconception of comfort for more suitable wellbeing.
The takeaway was: The built environment. Architecture has gotten largely overdressed and has become a burden to bioclimate and budget. While one way, like the SHIFT way, is to ‘build simple’ as with intelligently dumbed-down third skin facades, Bilge’s approach goes further in a wide open spectrum of substituting ‘third skin facades’ with ‘second skin clothing’ to design ‘third skins’ like ‘second skins.’ Just like nature designed the first skin, Bilge’s SENSELAB is data driven and aimed to design the second one to perfection in order to minimize the necessity of the third.
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