News
Terrapin Joins Fitwel Advisory Council
| Terrapin is excited to announce that we are part of the inaugural Fitwel Advisory Council. We’re thrilled to be one of the many great organizations promoting the advancement of Fitwel’s impact. — Read More
Features
Technology and Environmentalism in the 21st Century
| Technological advances are changing the way we interact with the world around us. Can we utilize these technologies to promote environmental responsibility, personal health, and a re-engagement with the greater community? — Read More
Forest Bathing and the Larger Implications of Accessible Nature
| The practice of therapeutic “forest bathing” popular in Asia and increasingly in the US supports health, wellbeing and meaningful contact with nature. Providing this access to nature has wide ranging implications for the health of the population and resilience in the face of climate change. — Read More
Creating a Healthier World
| Terrapin works across a broad spectrum of areas—environmental strategy, biophilic design, ecological design, and bioinspired innovation—but all of our efforts aim to create a healthier world. Supporting human health has implications at all scales of the built environment and unites our work across these diverse fields. — Read More
Bill to Speak at BD West 2017
| Bill Browning will be speaking about biophilic design and hospitality at this year’s BD West Conference and Expo in Los Angeles. — Read More
Contributions
Video: Biophilic Design in New York City
| Bill Browning was interviewed for a news clip looking at biophilic design in New York City and how it leads to better health and wellbeing in the workplace. — Read More
Project Profiles
Advancing Sustainability at the Williams Lake Resort Community
| Terrapin developed a comprehensive report that helped the development team understand which specific sustainability strategies and goals are critical to create the premier environmentally progressive development in the Hudson Valley and New York. — Read More
Biophilic Design Precedents: Three Perspectives on Evidence & Ideation
| In an effort to expedite the broad adoption of biophilic design, I’ve been exploring ways to build evidence and communicate success of industry-relevant biophilic design precedents. These are early thoughts on how we might go about filling knowledge gaps, proving the intuitively obvious, and establishing emotional connections to the built environment. — Read More
Review of Designing Regenerative Cultures
| If I’m lucky, during the winter I have enough time and mental space to read one real book before other commitments distract me. This year, I dove into Daniel Wahl’s Designing Regenerative Cultures. In our current age of rapid evolution, Daniel offers a framework to co-create a plan to move beyond our destructive world order […] — Read More
Gowanus, Green Infrastructure, and Public Health
| This post explores the public health benefits of green infrastructure and uses the Gowanus neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY as an example of how this type of infrastructure can be implemented to benefit communities. During a site visit to Gowanus, three sites were identified to examine the opportunities to develop green infrastructure where people live, work, and play. — Read More
Online Course on Biophilia by ASID and Terrapin
| Co-developed by ASID and Terrapin Bright Green, this online course on biophilia applies the 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design to interior design. Take the course today! — Read More
Biophilic Design in Hospitality
| Terrapin has collaborated with Interface on a series of preliminary studies to bring clarity to biophilic design trends in hospitality, to assess the impact of biophilic design elements, and to formulate an approach for further testing. — Read More
New Biophilic Design Case Studies: Greenacre Park and Glumac’s Shanghai Office
| We’ve released two new biophilic design case studies on Greenacre Park in New York and Glumac’s Shanghai office which targets Living Building Certification. — Read More
Clif Bar Industrial Bakery
| Using the 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design research as a framework, Terrapin analyzed the Clif Bar project and identified interventions to support employee health and wellbeing. Clif Bar is likely the first food manufacturer to deliberately incorporate biophilic design into an industrial bakery. — Read More
Prison, Nature and Social Structure
| Biophilic design and programing can transform harsh prison environments, known to aggravate mental illness, into rehabilitative spaces. — Read More
Studying the Allure of Biophilia in Cities
| A look at walking behavior and user experience of workers in urban environments to understand the attraction to nature and biophilia in cities. — Read More
Water for Wellbeing: Perspectives on Design Challenges
| A closer look at the biophilic design pattern Presence of Water in overcoming common design challenges of water features in the built environment. — Read More
Terrapin to Present at the 2016 BOMA Conference
| Jonce Walker from our team will be presenting with Joe Zazzera, CEO of Plant Solutions, in the session “Human Wellbeing: The WELL Building Standard and the Economic Case for Nature-Based Design” at the 2016 Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International Conference in Washington DC. — Read More
Scentimental Associations with Nature: Odor-Associative Learning and Biophilic Design
| Biophilic odors create a unique opportunity to improve health and wellbeing in the built environment using a Non-Visual Connection with Nature. — Read More
Two New Case Studies in Biophilic Design
| Terrapin has published two new case studies in biophilic design highlighting the Kickstarter Headquarters in Brooklyn and the Coeur d’Alene Resort in Idaho. — Read More
Topics
- Occupant Comfort
- Materials Science
- Speaking
- LEED
- Terrapin Team
- Phoebe
- Community Development
- Greenbuild
- Technology
- Biophilic Design Interactive
- Catie Ryan
- Spanish
- Hebrew
- French
- Portuguese
- Publications
- Carbon Neutrality
- Environmental Values
- Conference
- Psychoacoustics
- Education
- Workshop
- Mass Timber
- Transit
- Carbon Strategy
- connection with natural materials
- interior design
- inspirational hero
- biophilia
- economics of biophilia
- Sustainability
- Systems Integration
- Biophilic Design
- Commercial
- Net Zero
- Resorts & Hospitality
- Energy Utilization
- Water Management
- Corporations and Institutions
- Institutional
- Ecosystem Science
- Green Guidelines
- Profitability
- Climate Resiliency
- Health & Wellbeing
- Indoor Environmental Quality
- Building Performance
- Bioinspired Innovation
- Biodiversity
- Residential
- Master Planning
- Architects and Designers
- Developers and Building Owners
- Governments and NGOs
- Urban Design
- Product Development
- Original Research
- Manufacturing
- Industrial Ecology
- Resource Management
- Sustainability Plans
- Health Care