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Welcome to our deep dive into Biophilic Design, where we explore how to integrate biophilia into architectural projects through established guidelines and standards. Today we are pleased to host Alessandra Parolini, an architect, and Bettina Bolten, an expert and consultant in Biophilic Design.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alessandra Parolini:<\/strong> Good morning everyone, I am Alessandra Parolini, I am an architect and today I am here with Bettina Bolten, an expert and consultant in Biophilic Design, and today we will talk about if there are any standards or guidelines for incorporating biophilia and Biophilic Design into projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bettina Bolten:<\/strong> Hello Alessandra, you are introducing a very important topic because we have said that Biophilic Design is an applied science<\/a> so we really rely on scientific data. There are various protocols, I must say over time some have proven results, some results are valid from a scientific point of view, others a bit less but we have guidelines available and if you want I can give you a brief overview of what exists.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We have already talked about Stephen Kellert who is the father of Biophilic Design<\/a> and his very important work that dates back to 2008 where he first gave a rather complete, quite complete framework<\/strong>, a systematic work of Biophilic Design. He talks about two dimensions of Biophilic Design<\/strong>, one naturalistic organic and then a vernacular one, divides the topics into six thematic areas and then identifies as many as 72 attributes<\/strong> of Biophilic Design.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Alessandra Parolini:<\/strong> Must all these 72 always be used simultaneously?<\/span><\/h4>\n

Bettina Bolten:<\/strong> Well, it’s a bit complex because I must admit that being him an ecologist he understood, let’s say, a bit less about architecture clearly and he therefore started from his from a biological base of evolutionary history<\/strong>, of psychology and evolutionary biology<\/strong> and identified a whole series of attributes based, obviously, on many scientific studies from other fields other scientists. He did a wonderful job, however, I must admit, difficult to apply<\/strong> because some of these topics overlap too, are interconnected and it becomes extremely difficult even to interpret them for an architect<\/strong> interior design.<\/em><\/span>
\nFor this reason after 2008, in 2014 a U.S. consulting firm<\/strong> based in New York, Therapy Right Green<\/strong>, identified 14, they call them patterns or models of Biophilic Design,<\/strong> they published them within a brochure that is also easily found on the internet. They translate, let’s say, these studies by Kellert into a more applicable key because they are actually designers. It’s an empirical approach,<\/strong> so based on experimentation and examples. They also added a 15th pattern<\/strong> in 2020. Anyway, this is work that is closer to the practice of the designer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Afterward, Stephen Kellert in turn involved an architect Elizabeth Calabrese, also American, and they did a sort of cleanup, let’s call it that, among the 72 points and made a protocol of 24 Biophilic Design attributes<\/strong>, divided into three thematic areas:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n