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14 Patterns of Biophilic Design
Data: “14 Patterns of Biophilic Design: Improving Health and Well- being in the Built Environment”, by Terrapin Bright Green, 2014.
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Biophilic Design Principles
Data: elaborated from “Planetary awareness, worldviews and the conservation of biodiversity”, 2009 and “Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life”, 2008.
NATURE IN SPACE
DIRECT
REAL PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE
1. Visual Connection with Nature
2. Non-Visual Connection with Nature
3. Non-Rhythmic Sensory Stimuli
4. Thermal and Airflow Variability
5. Presence and Sound of Water
6. Dynamic and Diffuse Light
7. Connection with Natural Systems
In its evolution, it managed to transition from primarily describing the phenomenon and its impact on people’s lives, to assuming the role of a bridge between the world created by people, an artificial, cultural world and the one in which humans exist in the wider sense – which we call Nature. It created the conditions and features we now apply when we set out to “design a human-made natural environment”6, as contradictory that might sound.
We experience the world through our senses – primarily sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste. The basis of biophilic design is its ability to leverage these senses to satisfy our unconscious needs and to encourage us to feel engaged. It draws on some of the most important characteristics of our deeper needs such as unpredictability or a sense of protection from danger.
According to Stephen Keller, social ecologist and scholar at Yale University, who provided the conceptual base of biophilic design, there are three fundamental biophilic experiences: Nature in the Space; Nature Analogues; and the “Nature of Space”7. His work also defined more than 70 different
NATURE ANALOGUES
NATURE OF THE SPACE
ARCHETYPE LOGIC PSYCHOLOGY
11. Prospect 12. Refuge
13. Mystery 14. Risk / Peril
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INDIRECT REPLICA MEMORY
Biomorphic Forms and Patterns
Material Connection with Nature
Complexity and Order
BIOPHILIC PATTERNS
BIOPHILIA ASPECTS