Biophilic design in architecture and its contributions to health, well-being, and sustainability: A critical review

What the study found

Reviews proposed health and wellbeing benefits of biophilic architecture while examining gaps in evidence and application.

Limitations

Broad intervention category; strength varies greatly across individual biophilic elements.

Neurodesign interpretation

The most useful biophilia literature is the literature willing to say where the evidence is thin.

Possible design implications

Use to surface evidence gaps and distinguish established effects from design discourse.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain as a critical rather than promotional biophilia source.

Study design

Critical review

Population

Building occupants

Setting

Architecture

Field

Biophilic design

Mechanism

Health, wellbeing, sustainability

Spatial variable

Nature integration strategies

Keywords

biophilic architecture, health, wellbeing, critical review