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How your home’s layout may be quietly adding stress to your day
Is Your Home Working Against You? How Layout Quietly Shapes Your Stress Level You walk through the front door after a long day. Nothing is obviously wrong. The house is tidy enough. The furniture is nice. And yet — something feels off. A low-level tension you can't...
Why Multiple Intelligence Theory Belongs at the Center of Home Design
A home should do more than look beautiful—it should work beautifully for the way you think, feel, and live. This belief is at the heart of Multiple Intelligence Theory, and it’s why truly personalized architecture feels effortless, restorative, and deeply human....
5 Key Ways to use Water in Architecture that is Designed for Wellbeing
in add toDesign Matters – Water As a WELL AP Certified designer, I am focused on wellbeing in design. In commercial projects WELL "aims to increase the rate of adequate hydration in building users, reduce health risks due to contaminated water and excessive moisture...
Design Matters: Lighting for your health
Gaining weight? Not feeling well? Call your architect! No, really. Design matters and lighting is key! Design with Light Part 1: Circadian Rhythm and Your Health We average 90% of our time in buildings. Designs that consider your well-being actually contribute to you...
Design Matters – Movement
As I continue to learn about neuroscience, I am excited about how my role as an architect can contribute to well-being. Movement, one of the WELL concepts is an important feature that connects neuroscience and architecture – and by providing design that incorporates...
Design Matters – Nourishment
Nourishment: An Investment in your brain and your wellbeing I recently got a great sales pitch from Nikita – a copywriter – who writes about why it’s important to invest in yourself (or business) by having her help write copy for your architectural website. She...
Design Matters for your Thermal Comfort
Being too cold or too hot is not comfortable – and therefore at odds with your wellbeing – so we are constantly chasing the ‘Goldilocks’ rule.
Design Matters – Let there be light!
Gaining weight? Not feeling well? Call your architect! No, really. Design matters and lighting is key! Design with Light Part 1: Circadian Rhythm and Your Health We average 90% of our time in buildings. Designs that consider your well-being actually contribute to you...
What being a sailor has taught me about architecture
There have been two things in my life that have been a constant since I was about the age of 8, sailing and architecture. Sailing started when my parents signed me up for the Little Skippers class at my local club. Architecture started when I would peruse my mother’s...