INTENT
The intent of this Imperative is to connect teams and occupants with the benefits of biophilia and incorporate meaningful biophilic design elements into the project.
REQUIREMENTS
Projects must be designed to include elements that nurture the innate human/nature connection. Each project team must engage in a minimum of one all-day Biophilic Design Exploration of the biophilic design potential for the project. The Exploration must result in a Biophilic Framework and Plan for the project that outlines strategy and implementation ideas for the following:
- How the project will be transformed by deliberately incorporating nature through Environmental Features, Light and Space, and Natural Shapes and Forms.
- How the project will be transformed by deliberately incorporating nature’s patterns through Natural Patterns and Processes and Evolved Human-Nature Relationships.
- How the project will be uniquely connected to the place, climate, and culture through Place-Based Relationships. The project must meaningfully integrate public art
and contain design features intended solely for human delight and the celebration of culture, spirit, and place appropriate to the project’s function.
The Framework should include a record of the Exploration day and goals for the project, as well as historical, cultural, ecological, and climatic studies that thoroughly examine the site and context for the project. The Plan must contain methods for tracking biophilia at each design phase to ensure sufficient implementation of the Framework.
CHANGES FROM LBC 3.1 TO 4.0
With the understanding that beauty and a connection to nature are precursors to caring enough to preserve, conserve, and serve the greater good, and that a key to creating beautiful buildings is to embrace a biophilic design process, the requirements from the LBC 3.1 Imperative I09 Biophilic Environment have been integrated with the requirements of LBC 3.1 Imperative I19 Beauty + Spirit to create this new Imperative.
