  The perceptual experience of architecture is enacted by the sensory and motor
system. When we act, we change the perceived environment according to a set of
expectations that depend on our body and the built environment. The continuous
process of collecting sensory information is thus based on bodily affordances.
Affordances characterize the fit between the physical structure of the body and
capacities for movement in the built environment. Since little has been done
regarding the role of architectural design in the emergence of perceptual
experience on a neuronal level, this paper offers a first step towards the role
of architectural design in perceptual experience. An approach to synthesize
concepts from computational neuroscience with architectural phenomenology into
a computational neurophenomenology is considered. The outcome is a framework
under which studies of architecture and cognitive neuroscience can be cast.
