Psychological perception related to natural patterns and forms in architectural design with multidimensional scale analysis (MDS)

The question is whether the perception of naturalness in architecture is related to objective visual patterns, and what is the effect of natural patterns on the aesthetic evaluation of architectural fields? Experimental laboratory tests showed that the visual patterns of architecture explained more than half of the variance of naturalness valuation and it was determined that the aesthetic preference ranks are closely related to the patterns in natural architecture. The research method was a laboratory where the participants took part in image sorting, and multidimensional scaling (MDS) analysis was performed on the data to determine the hidden dimensions that guide scene similarity judgments. Both naturalness and preference rating are strongly related to the MDS dimension. We interpreted this dimension as representing the hidden perceptions of naturalistic aesthetics and it was found that the effects of natural patterns mediate the preference of nature. The findings of the research show that naturalistic visual patterns may play an important role in the aesthetic evaluation of architectural fields.