Product Summary:

The use of reactive smells will be applied in the office spaces to isolating unpleasant scents that are often accumulated in the break room, copy room, and bathroom. The use of this product will promote better work conditions in the work place. The fragrance dispensers will be activating by the use of a computer aided controller. This system will allow fragrance zones to move through a space that are often carrying distracting smells in the office. .

Product Summary:

This research project posits that if an architectural space could be precisely "tuned" with scents, it would be possible to create completely new ways of experiencing space. We believe that smell helps to alter our perception of a space: its size, its openness, its intimacy. We suggest that designed "scent environments" could, with great subtlety, define the mood of a place and the lifestyle of its occupants. The research team has developed a system that allows fragrance zones to move through a space. This system has been prototyped in a Smell Pavilion. Airflow within the space is generated by an array of fans. Moving air is controlled by a series of diffusion screens to provide smooth and continuous laminar airflow. Computer-controlled fragrance dispensers and careful air control enable parts of the Pavilion space to be selectively scented.

Architectural Applications:

The study of the human olfactory system has progressed rapidly in recent years. However, artists and architects have been slow to pick up on the potentials for developing evocative and memorable experiences using our sense of smell. They tend to design for visual stimulation at the expense of other more sensual and evocative strategies. The Pavilion is a simple translucent enclosure that glows inwardly during the day and outwardly at night. Visitors enter the Pavilion and experience carefully controlled zones of fragrance that define and demark areas of space without physical boundaries, encouraging people to encounter an invisible yet tangible smell environment.