AffectCity: An Empirical Investigation of Complexity, Transparency, and Materiality in Shaping Affective Perception of Building Facades
arXiv:2604.18768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Buildings shape how people feel, yet the mechanisms through which specific facade properties drive affective states remain empirically underspecified. Here we introduce the Cambridge Facade Affect Dataset (CFAD), 86 orthogonally rectified facade images annotated with continuous arousal and valence ratings from 85 participants, and establish a validated pipeline linking machine-vision-derived surface metrics to human affective responses. Focusing on three quantifiable attributes, complexity, transparency (window-to-wall ratio), and materiality (proportion of natural versus artificial surface […]