Eco Friendly Affordable Furniture That Fits Any Budget
When my neighbour Sarah asked me to help her furnish her new apartment last month, I thought it'd be straightforward. She had a decent budget, cared about the environment, and…
Daycare Eco Friendly Furniture for Safe Learning Spaces
You know what really gets under my skin? Walking into a daycare facility and seeing cheap particleboard furniture outgassing formaldehyde while three-year-olds are trying to learn their colours. I mean,…
Energy Efficiency Through Biophilic Design
The built environment accounts for 39 percent of the world’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions — which is the largest area of emissions reduction potential in any sector. Most building design…
Textures & Tactility in Biophilic Interiors
As biophilic design continues to grow as a topic of conversation regarding the physical space that humans occupy, the majority of the conversation focuses on the visual aspects of design…
Biophilic Design in Hospitality & Resorts
I have been designing hospitality spaces for over ten years, and there is a recurring pattern: hotels and resorts that incorporate biophilic design into their strategies, and do it intentionally,…
Biophilic Design in Urban Apartments
Innovative biophilic solutions must be created to address the design challenges that occur with urban apartments. In urban apartments, there are severe limitations to space due to high density. Natural…
DIY Biophilic Design: Budget-Friendly Implementation
The largest misconception about biophilic design is that it has to be expensive. People see pictures of biophilic spaces that include living walls at prices in the thousands, water features…
Biophilic Design vs. Traditional Architecture
Traditional architecture has been based on a completely different set of priorities than biophilic design — cost effectiveness, standardisation, visual simplicity. Functionality and affordability have been the major drivers of…
Sustainable Materials in Biophilic Design: Reclaimed Wood
There is a major flaw in the way many people understand biophilic design and sustainability; they believe that these two concepts are naturally linked. They are not. You can take…
Accessibility & Inclusive Biophilic Design
I have been developing my understanding of biophilic design within the workplace for many years now and I have come across a lot of examples of designers doing a great…