T R U E H O M E
A Revolutionary New Approach to Design
Truehome
(patent
pending) is
a systematic process for developing criteria for building designs that are
tailored to the exact needs of their
inhabitants.
It was developed over a decade in the design practice of
Sentient Architecture’s Managing Partner, Christopher K. Travis. It originated
from a very simple observation...that a "home" is not a building, but
an emotional experience. From a scientific point of view, a "home" is
a suite of emotional responses emerging from the brain of the
inhabitant in response to environmental cues.
Beginning in early 2006, Mr. Travis formed a company
called Nidiant Corporation for the purpose of converting what had been a
written workshop into a software application that could take this technology to
the Internet. The result was a new website call Truehome.
If you are interested in learning more about the
relationship between your home and your brain, you can visit Mr. Travis’
private blog Architecture
of Life where the subject is discussed in detail. Or you
can visit Learn
section on the Truehome.net website.
Sentient Architecture was the beta testing site for
Truehome technology and has used the method with clients successfully for many
years.
All Sentient Architecture residential clients are
required to participate in this process not only because it produces a more
fitting design, but also because the process is considerably more effective
than traditional programming methods, and the firm’s fees a based in part on
this competitive advantage. Sentient also uses adapted techniques where
appropriate to develop criteria for its commercial
projects.
A positive experience of home comes when the features of
that intimate environment elicit constructive emotional responses, in other
words, allow the inhabitant to feel comfortable, relaxed, safe, empowered and
self-expressed. Each individual, and each family system, responds in unique
ways to features of a living space. When a person undertakes a home building or
home improvement project, relationships with a spouse, with children, and with
professionals can also prove complicated.
Truehome is designed to help people discover their
unique needs in this area of life, and then enable them to create a
home that is tailored in great detail to those needs. The information
collected by Truehome exercises allows them to make better decisions when they
decide to buy, design and build, remodel or redecorate their
homes.
Here is what one national expert
on the brain has to say about Truehome.
"
Truehome has captured a coalescence of the
behavioral and brain sciences that allows the creation of a living
environment that is truly a home, one that nourishes our psychological needs
and enhances our biological state at the same
time.
"Truehome is a credible tool that
seeks out the design that will prove to be nurturing to our needs, and
allows us to heal when necessary, to take refuge from the stresses of work and
the world at large, and to
regain our equilibrium. Clinical intuition supports Travis' work in this regard
but, more importantly, the behavioral and brain sciences both lead me
to believe it will be effective as a strategy for the design of positive,
progressive, healing environments for
living."
Cecil Reynolds,
PhD - Internationally known expert in psychological testing and
assessment, author of The Handbook of School Psychology,
and the Encyclopedia of Special Education, past president
of the National Academy of Neuropsychology and the author of the Test of Memory
and Learning (TOMAL), one of the most widely used psychological testing tools
in the
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TO SEE ADDITIONAL TESTIMONIALS FROM CLIENTS, ACADEMICS AND
PROFESSIONALS
TRUEHOME beta IS LIVE ON THE INTERNET NOW!
Truehome.net launched in August of
2007. It is still going through focus group testing but a FREE TRIAL and its first two products
are available now in a “beta” form. The products currently available are
designed to help clients who are interested in buying a new home, though they
also collect considerable date related to home
design.
Truehome’s Professional Matching Service, and
its higher level products – those oriented towards projects like remodeling,
redecorating, and designing and building a home – will be launched in 2008.
A WORKSHOP BEST DELIVERED BY A
TEAM
Truehome technology is designed to support the
professional services of design
professionals, real
estate professionals and mental health
professionals. Truehome’s breakthrough method recommends that
therapists and design professional’s team up to identify the needs of their
clients.
Certification programs and ethical standards are planned
to maintain professional ethics. The design team in
all trials during research included a mental health professional, in
several cases a Ph.D. clinical psychologist. Nidiant supports professional
standards in both the architecture community and in the mental health
community.
Truehome explores
ideas that lead to the construction of living spaces that
empower and support those who live within them to grow towards
a better relationship themselves, others and the biosphere as a
whole.
Mr. Travis and the Truehome team are seeking to create
a living, adaptive, holistic, communal, and transformational
community which aids individuals not only in designing their homes,
but in designing the lives they wish to live.
Persons interested in participating should contact Chris
Travis at chris.travis@Nidiant.com.
