With change as a constant variable in the age of architecture, the built environment has simulated a series of façade design styles that can be seen as a product of combining art, science, and new technologies. What arises within this, is that often newly designed buildings, their aesthetics, form, colour, materials, and architectural solid, lead to issues such as visual or thermal discomfort, distaste, confusion, or anxiety. While it is recognised that over 90% of public transport journeys in cities include at least two walking trips, from which travellers spend 45–50% of their travel time as pedestrians, the impact of façade design on pedestrian health and wellbeing has received limited attention from scholars and practitioners. In effect, this study explores the impact of façade design on pedestrians’ health and wellbeing through the appraisal of affect in relevance to four London based case studies.
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