Architecture, Comfort and Emotion in the Classroom (Air, Smell, Color)

Thermal comfort is part of the child’s experience in the classroom and at school. The senses, sensations and, consequently, the emotions he or she feels during the day at school, are related to the architecture and to the pedagogical model. This chapter deals with the relationship between the senses and thermal sensation, between emotions and alliesthesia, the role of the senses in the perception of architecture, overcoming the approach to design that sees the predominance of the eye, as illustrated by J. Pallasmaa, towards architecture that considers all the senses.