What to know about biophilic design?

‍Biophilic design is creative way to incorporate nature into your buildings and modern architecture.  It embraces the concept of fusing urbanism with evolution, technology, and the natural world. It enables you to experience nature and feel part of it, even in the most crowded cities. Biophilic design can assist you in creating a balanced, more productive, and inspiring home-work environment; In the future, it will become a standard in design.

The foundation of biophilic design is a positive outlook and a desire to strengthen your bond with nature. It is comparatively simple to incorporate it into your daily lives and work places. It is accessible to everybody, regardless of the money or level of experience, whether you start small by making strategic adjustments or design from scratch. Indeed, there are many ways to add nature into our indoors, houses and workspaces; like artwork, plants, healthy landscape colors…

Biophilic design can help you feel happier, be more motivated,  sleep better, and be more productive by reducing stress, enhancing emotion, mood, and cognitive performance.

What are the six key pillars of biophilic design?

1. Environmental characteristics, such as pictures of animals and the natural world; 2. natural shapes and forms, such as lines and natural forms;

3. Natural patterns and processes: This concept focuses on sensory experience with changes in space and contrasts between them.

4. Natural light: Using a lot of natural light makes the space lively, engaging, and sculptural;

5. Relationships based on place: You can concentrate on real plants, pictures, or plant colors.

6. The relationships between humans and nature; this idea evokes a sense of accountability for the environment and our interactions with it.