comfort as data

You don't walk into a room and average your experience. You walk in and the thing that's wrong is the thing you notice: the glare, the echo, the cold draft on the back of your neck. Comfort isn't a single number, and it's definitely not the mean of six of them.

Fig. 13 · Six sensory scores for one room against their mean. The mean sits within range while one score falls far below it.

Comfort as data is my attempt to take that seriously. Sensi scores a floor plan across six senses, thermal, visual, acoustic, spatial, olfactory, tactile, calibrated to one person rather than a code-book average, and it keeps a coupling matrix so that warming a room and watching the acoustics shift is a fact the tool has to face instead of hide.

None of this measures a body. It scores a design against what the research suggests and hands you a reading you're free to overrule. That distinction is the whole ethic of the thing, and the rest of that argument has a note of its own: when the tool scores people.