Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Recently, a quiet revolution has begun to change the way people think about their spaces, both at home and at work. It centers on the idea that the great indoors should mimic the great outdoors to ...

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The environments we live in aren’t just backgrounds to our daily lives, they actively influence how we behave, our attitudes, and our very sense of self. In recent years, a growing field called ...

Through the lens of biophilic design and biomimicry – in which the natural world is the driving influence for design solutions – the natural beauty of Mexico was the key source of inspiration when ...

Even plants in a dark room can add warmth and beauty, says Sara Trop founder and owner of FunCycled. Biophilic design promotes both mental and physical well-being by lowering stress, elevating mood, ...

Derived from the term “biophilia,” biophilic design is the concept of connecting humans to nature, both directly and indirectly. The ethos originated in 1984 and was outlined by the Harvard naturalist ...

I first stumbled across the word ‘biophilia’, almost by accident, after being asked by various journalists if they could feature our home as they felt that it was a great example of biophilic interior ...

Human beings now spend the majority of their time indoors. And as our lives move further from nature and become more dependent on the built environment, scientists are pointing out our innate ...

The term "biophilia" understandably conjures images of buildings engulfed by vegetation and integrated into natural landscapes. In modern architectural discourse, the concept has come to be associated ...

Dutch architecture firm GG-loop has wrapped an apartment building in Amsterdam with a beautiful facade of timber slats. According to the architects, the design for the Freebooter Apartments ...