Melanie Tinhof is an an Architect & Researcher from Vienna exploring how architecture can actively improve mental health. Her work bridges neuroscience, psychology, and design uncovering how form, light, sound and materiality influence our body, emotions and cognitive state.
After several years in corporate strategy and marketing, she returned to architecture with a clear mission: to create spaces that heal. Through her project CORE, she investigates the impact of spatial form and natural materials on stress, focus, and emotional balance.
Melanie is currently completing her master’s thesis at TU Wien, where she combines scientific research with real-world prototyping. Her goal: to redefine architecture as a living system that nurtures the human mind rather than depleting it.
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Why Neuroarchitecture Is the Missing Link for Mental Health
We spend 90% of our lives indoors — yet our buildings are rarely designed with the human mind in mind. Neuroarchitecture explores how light, form, and space shape our emotions, focus, and wellbeing. In her talk, architect and researcher Melanie Tinhof shows why mental health starts with our built environment – and how rethinking space can reduce stress, increase cognitive performance, and even foster empathy. Through her project CORE, she translates scientific insights into real architectural prototypes that reconnect us to our senses, nature, and ourselves. This talk invites us to see architecture not as static structures, but as living systems that influence who we become.
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