I’ve been thinking a lot lately about something that struck me during a recent doctor’s appointment. The waiting room was one of those typical medical office spaces – fluorescent lights…
When I started optimizing my home office for productivity a few years back, I was mainly focused on personal metrics – focus time, task completion rates, mental fatigue levels. What…
I’ll be honest – when I first heard about formal certification programs for biophilic design a few years back, my initial reaction was skeptical. Here I was, a retired engineer…
Living in the same house for nearly four decades gives you a front-row seat to how communities grow and change around you. What started as farmland beyond our back fence…
When I started tracking the correlation between my workspace environment and productivity metrics, I stumbled into something bigger than just optimizing my home office. The data kept pointing to patterns…
# Getting Creative With Biophilic Design – What Actually Works (And What Doesn’t) I have this memory that’s probably going to sound cheesy, but bear with me. Last spring I…
Look, I never thought I’d be the guy who has strong opinions about window coverings, but here we are. It started during those brutal 3am feeding sessions with our daughter…
When I first heard about biophilic design about two years ago, I’ll be honest – I thought it was just fancy interior design jargon for “put some plants in your…
When I first heard the word “biophilia,” I’ll be honest – I had to Google it. This was a few years back, right around the time I was starting to…
I never expected to become obsessed with six-sided shapes, but parenthood leads you down the strangest rabbit holes sometimes. It started when my daughter was about three and we were…
When I first started reading about biophilic design eight years ago – trying to figure out how to make our house work better for my wife after her stroke –…
This whole concept of biophilic design as a career field is something I’ve been learning about over the past few years, ever since I started modifying our home for my…
I’ll be honest – I had never heard the word “biophilic” until my son’s ADHD diagnosis led me down a research rabbit hole about environmental factors affecting kids’ behavior. But…
Okay, real talk – I used to completely butcher the word “biophilic” when I first started getting into plants and apartment transformations. I’d say everything from “bye-oh-FILL-ick” to “bio-PHIL-lic” until…
# Those 14 Biophilic Design Patterns Everyone Talks About (And What They Actually Mean) You know how sometimes you walk into a space and immediately feel better, but you can’t…