Biophilic Design Concept And Different Examples In The World

Abstract

As being home for millions of people and various species, cities has a remarkable role for sustaining ecosystems. After the effects due to dramatically increasing migration rates in urban areas are being clearly observed, design approaches have changed from anthropocentric to ecocentric perspective. The transition take place due to necessities. Population boost in urban areas due to numerous job opportunities eventually caused adverse impacts on the environment which indirectly affects public health and economy. Therefore in the 60’s and 70’s design approaches evolved into environmentally focused approaches. By the end of 80’s growing environmentalism ideology is spread its scope and formed a new well-known term sustainability. Sustainability covers environmental, social and economic aspects. Getting into more details in economic aspects, a new term biophilia pops up. Biophilia then, having been used as a design ideology and can be applied in different scales varying from buildings to regional scale. Biophilic design in building and urban scale are applied to protect all elements of ecosystem including but not limited with plants, animals, insects and humans. Main objective of biophilic design is to contribute sustaining the ecosystem and urban life.