Elemental Living
Everyone wants a dream home but, when it’s designed with a the sense of environmental awareness, this is Elemental Living. Architects are responding to the natural world with low-impact, sustainable constructions, and saving our resources through design. Throughout history, design has been trying to cultivate a deep connection to living spaces that connect their inhabitants with the forests, mountains, lakes, deserts, and oceans. In these most raw landscapes, humans have respected nature and have learnt how to live alongside it to thrive.
Modern architecture has found a closer connection to nature, with an understanding that it benefits our wellbeing not only as a community and also as individuals. Designers strive to bring these elements indoors and work with our human psyche to connect us to our environment. This concept is also called many different names as I mentioned before, from biophilic design, bau biology, green design, sensory design, sustainable living, and even feng shui.
The intention is to heal ourselves through nature and our understanding of how it connects us the the framework of our planet. Sensory Design s about including the senses to create a unique experience and leave a lasting memory. Ultimately, the goal of an interior environment is to move forward the intention of a space and engage the user in meaningful ways to engage the senses.
I feel all art has this “cathartic” experience, the pieces that take your breath away, ones that integrate an emotion or mood, and the art that heals us through the eyes of the artist’s creation.
Here is an example I found online of an amazing architectural masterpiece in nature called “Arborg House”, designed by Icelandic architect Palmar Kristmundsson (from PK Arkitektar). His inspiration was first and foremost by the extraordinary landscape and the environment, by creating a house that has been sustainably built into the environment.
This video took my breath away, by showing us examples of the power of landscape with design and our connection to it. Courtesy of: https://en.vola.com
Just Wow!
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