There is no such thing as a neutral space.
What we create either causes health
or erodes our ability to thrive;
socially, economically and culturally.

There is no such thing as a neutral space.
What we create either causes health
or erodes our ability to thrive;
socially, economically and culturally.

Enriched Environments

Enriched environments—environments that cause health—result from the combination of seven elements. These elements stimulate our brains’ biological and chemical operating systems, acting like architectural “super vitamins”. With demonstrated powers to improve health as measured though neurological, physiological, psychological and sociological feedback. They are important in creating enriched healing, working and collaborative knowledge-sharing spaces.

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  • Venues With a ‘Sense of Occurrence’

    March 3, 2021

    March 3, 2021. Venues with a ‘sense of occurrence’ make us feel engaged and stimulated. We sense the energy of the built surroundings and the people in them, prompting us to think, act and feel in new, unexpected ways.

  • Can and should learning environments communicate optimism?

    February 3, 2021

    February 3, 2021. Places with optimism radiate youthfulness, abundance and life. They have a contrast of mass and gravity - of light, lightness and flight; a sense of weightlessness that defies gravity and encourages an upward gaze.

  • Places Transmit a Psychological ‘Temperature’

    January 12, 2021

    January 12, 2021. Places transmit a psychological ‘temperature’ which we ‘feel into’, known by the German word ‘stimmung’, meaning atmospheric mood, often associated with music and the state of an instrument once it is tuned.