
MOA Architecture Portfolio Work
Altitude Dialysis Aurora - Altitude Dialysis MOA Architecture brought together the parent company’s prototype standards package and a new approach to renal care. With at-home dialysis as a focus of this facility, the interiors took residential styling into the realm of healthcare. The project addresses the healthcare requirements of a renal care facility and softens the edges through interior design focal points. The reception room relates to an upscale residential foyer, with a modern ceiling coffer and herringbone-patterned insets. Similar detailing carries through on the treatment floor, repeating dark blue accent walls, mixed with weathered wood tones. The treatment floor, an area...
How Haptics and Color Affect Us
The definitive color study to confirm the term color psychology doesn’t exist. Rather, the term psychology of color is the newest focus of research in this field. Interior spaces are the largest living laboratories we have in which we could understand the effects of color upon us. However, true research on color is very hard to control due to the way color interacts with light and envelopes us. Color and lighting work together to create an “atmosphere” and, though that term sounds “designer-y”, it carries important implications. The atmosphere of a space creates haptic reactions in our bodies that leave impressions upon our psyche. We remember memorable spaces. Haptics is the study of...