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What makes biophilic design different to landscape design, landscape architecture or the ‘greening’ of urban environments? Adding a few pot plants to interior spaces, providing vegetation in the backyard of homes, adding ‘greenery’ to balconies or including a living green wall to part of the façade of a building—is not biophilic design. In contrary—the fundamentals of biophilic design are embedded in a complex science with deep complexities of human-nature interactions, inclusive of conscious and unconscious responses as humans to natural elements, processes, shapes and forms. This ‘living structure’, or ‘living architecture’ is not always visible to the naked eye. This chapter investigates the application of biophilic design patterns to a case study project—debunking the misconception of biophilic design being a simple process of ‘greening the city’.
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Roӧs, P.B. (2022). A Case Study: The Biophilic Corridor. In: A Biophilic Pattern Language for Cities. Sustainable Urban Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19071-1_8
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