In Architectural Design, Orfield consults in each of the sensory disciplines associated with the built environment.  This includes Acoustics, AV, Lighting, Daylighting, Thermal Comfort, and Indoor Air Quality.  In each of these areas, the lab assists in defining and measuring user needs and preferences, in the development and execution of building performance standards, and in performing studies of occupancy quality and testing of subjective response to design programs.

Orfield consults on many building types, including offices, industrial, civic & government, schools, & higher education, healthcare, senior housing, hospitality, religious, multi-housing, retail, performing arts and sports. With a specialty in human perception and cognition, the lab approaches each of these building types with a special focus on human comfort, performance and preference.  For over two decades, Orfield has specialized in perceptual and cognitive disabilities, and their application to universal design. This has resulted in a strong interest in projects in the disability field, including Aging, Autism, Mental Illness, PTSD, Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, Deafness, Blindness, and many more.