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Biophilia as Infrastructure: The End of Cosmetic Green

2026-02-27

The conversation has shifted. Five years ago, architects pitched biophilic integration as a sustainability bonus—a nice-to-have that differentiated premium projects. Today, developers lead with it. Workplace research validates 15 per cent wellbeing, productivity and creativity gains in green-integrated environments (Human Spaces Report, 2015), and commercial tenants now expect living facades, vegetative roofs and botanical interiors as baseline, not luxury.

But here's what changed the game: architects are no longer limited in biophilic designing due to factors that were hitherto considered constraints, as there are solutions now available to make the structure suitable for catering to the demands of biophilic designing, enabling architects to cut through many of the constraints...