Arezoo is a registered architect with the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA); she has more than 15 years’ experience in the built environment from conceptual design and design development to contract administration and project management. She holds a Master of Architecture from Azad University, Tehran, Iran and Master of Design for Health from OCAD University.

Integration between people and the built environment and individual’s perception of space has been her interest since architectural school. The fact that understanding of space depends on one’s experience, age, culture and physical abilities fascinates her. Perception is how the brain makes sense of sensory stimuli. Not everyone, however, has the same capability to perceive, identify, and connect to space. This knowledge becomes more distracted and vague when a person has a mental dysfunction or brain injury. Her interest in the understanding of space led her to study soundscape. Her research focuses on soundscape in designing for people with dementia. In collaboration with the University of Ghent and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (TRI), she has received a grant to validate the effect of soundscape on persons with dementia at the TRI Dementia Unit.