From Forest to Homes and Back to the Forest

Biophilia has recently broken through into the cultural mainstream. It has the full momentum needed to establish itself as a new norm and increase awareness of the importance of living closer to nature.

The Biophilia hypothesis is not new. It is a forty-year-old concept introduced in 1984 by the American biologist Edward Wilson who proposed that humans are more at ease when surrounded by nature. He went on to define the concept as the "urge [we have] to affiliate with other forms of life."

Later on, the concept was reduced to such an extent that the most commonly spread variation was the beneficial presence of plants in over-urbanized environments.

Buildings like these are like bodies. Infused with the right materials, they live and breathe with us. And we, as biophilia teaches us, want to be close to their hearts.