Inside Jewel Changi Airport and What Makes It a Biophilic Masterpiece
# Inside Jewel Changi Airport and What Makes It a Biophilic Masterpiece I’ll be honest with you. When I first heard about an airport terminal with a 40-metre waterfall and…
Acoustic Benefits of Natural Materials and How to Reduce Noise With Biophilic Design
# Acoustic Benefits of Natural Materials and How to Reduce Noise With Biophilic Design If you’ve ever tried to concentrate in an office with hard surfaces bouncing every keyboard click…
How to Add a Living Wall to Your Home and What It Really Costs
# How to Add a Living Wall to Your Home and What It Really Costs If you’ve been considering a living wall for your home, you’re probably wondering whether the…
How Khoo Teck Puat Hospital Proved Nature Heals Patients Faster
# How Khoo Teck Puat Hospital Proved Nature Heals Patients Faster I’ve been studying hospital design for fifteen years, and I can tell you that most medical facilities are designed…
The 10 Best Uses of Biophilic Design in Architecture
# The Ultimate Biophilic Buildings: Our Crew Ranks the World’s Most Nature-Forward Spaces Right, so we finally sat down and thrashed this out. Took us four sessions, countless coffees, and…
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…