Biophilic design rooted in living systems, not just decoration
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Why Your Office Is Beginning to Look Like a Forest
In a bid to keep workers happy, productive and, most important, in the office for as long as possible, companies have flocked to all sorts of design trends over the years. Last decade it was kegs and pingpong tables; now Mother Nature is in vogue...
Park-like green office simulates recreational ground to promote productivity
The belief that a nice physical working environment promotes productivity has seen huge amounts invested into office design in the 21st century. From smaller shared work spaces to mega complexes like amazon’s recently opened spheres, for nature deprived city-dwellers the ‘green office’ has seen an evolution towards natural oases, believing that plant-form filled spaces further enhance our ability to work...
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"Biophilic Design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn. We need nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we have often designed our cities and suburbs in ways that both degrade the environment and alienate us from nature.
The recent trend in green architecture has decreased the environmental impact of the built environment, but it has accomplished little in the way of reconnecting us to the natural world, the missing piece in the puzzle of sustainable development.
Come on a journey from our evolutionary past and the origins of architecture to the world’s most celebrated buildings in a search for the architecture of life.
Together, we will encounter buildings that connect people and nature - hospitals where patients heal faster, schools where children’s test scores are higher, offices where workers are more productive, and communities where people know more of their neighbors and families thrive. Biophilic Design points the way toward creating healthy and productive habitats for modern humans."