- Beyond Green:
Restorative Biophilic Design - • Definition
- • Why the Need for Restorative Design?
- • Evolution-Based Aesthetic Response
- Restorative Elements and
Attributes of Biophilic Design
We view site and building as a series of free-flowing interior and exterior spaces, woven together in a kind of tapestry 2, offering continuity and creating spaces of a transitional nature.
Porches, colonnades, courtyards, verandas, pergolas, arbors and trellises are such transitional spaces (Japanese concept of Engawa), transparent barriers, where public meets private, indoors meets outdoors, light meets shadow; places of crossing over, the Soft Crenellated Edges of our buildings and communities that allow the environments we create to be so much more than isolated objects, architecture as built topography.
Our buildings dynamically respond to climate and weather, open and close, inhale and exhale, encouraging inhabitants to be active participants rather than passive consumers.
Views and vistas are brought inside and become an integral part of interior spaces.