EVALUATING THE RESTORATIVE POTENTIAL OF CHURCH BUILDINGS
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We report the preliminary results of a study on the experience of soundscape and architectural ambiances of church buildings, with an emphasis on their restorative qualities.Through questionnaires, commented walks, and interviews with 16 diverse participants, we aim to characterize the sensory qualities of 2 contrasting church buildings in Montreal.Our data collection instruments operationalize concepts at the intersection of different research fields: soundscapes, attention restoration, quiet areas, architectural ambiances, and heritage (including religious) places.As such, it encompasses a broad range of descriptors and outcomes.At a methodological level, we discuss the questionnaire results with regards to situational factors, items wording and procedure that may affect the ratings, with the complements of the qualitative methods used to provide a better understanding of people's experiences with church interiors.At a theoretical level, we report how the findings provide grounds to revisit the Biophilia hypothesis, in interior space with very little natural elements.At a practical level, we discuss how the research design can contribute to a broader discussion on the future of redundant churches.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".