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Alterity is essential to human development. If deprived of a variety of stimuli, the brain is unable to develop, losing plasticity and deteriorating like an atrophied muscle. This reasoning is widely accepted when it comes to social relations or cognitive and physical activities. But what about the stimuli promoted by the built environment?
There was a time when the search for ideal spaces, totally controlled to offer the perfect conditions of safety, comfort, and ergonomics to their users, encouraged an ever-increasing dissociation between internal and external environments. Nowadays, the importance of being in contact with nature, in outdoor spaces, with its intrinsic variables of light, noise, temperature, humidity, scents, textures, colors, elements, and lives, has become more and more clear.