Creating an Office to Love. The Biophilic Office Project - Part 1

This podcast is the audio from a short 8 minute video we shot at the bre (Building Research Establishment) in June 2021. It's a sneak peak at the "Biophilic Office" project, the conversion of the ground floor of the "Zero Bills House" on the bre site in Watford just outside of London, UK. The project shows you how you can retrofit a Biophilic office into any space. You can go an visit the conversion as well. There is the video and photos on our website www.journalofbiophilicdesign.com with links to the partners websites. Speaking in this video are Oliver Heath, founder of Oliver Heath Design, Flavie Lowres of the bre and Paige Hodsman, Ecophon Saint-Gobain. How do we create an office that people are going to love to come to? During the Covid pandemic most of us worked from home and now Lockdown is easing, we are looking at a hybrid workplace solution. Thing is, the office is a place where people come together to collaborate. How do you design a space that people are going to want to come back to? People also need contact, but also comfort. Integrating the experience and comfort of a home into the office design concepts. We visited the bre (Building Research Establishment) “Biophilic Office” project to report on where they are with it and what the installation features include, and why they’ve made certain changes. The designers have converted the ground floor of a home (The Zero Bill’s House) on the bre campus to create an office. Putting comfort at the forefront they have turned the concept of the office on its head. They have created an office that people love… Biophilic Design is the key element to creating these spaces for people. This is the audio from the 8 minute video we shot there. You can watch the video above or on YouTube on this link (or search Journal of Biophilic Design Biophilic Office Project bre). To find out more visit www.journalofbiophilicdesign.com Credits: with thanks to George Harvey Audio Production for the calming biophilic soundscape that backs all our podcasts.  To keep upto date with all our podcasts why not subscribe on our site here, or on Apple iTunes or Amazon Music, vurbl https://vurbl.com/station/56kv3eCsSI6/ or search for us where you normally enjoy listening to your RSS Podcast feeds.  Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/0o0a8hL22de32nxc0M3ByL  Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/journal-of-biophilic-design   Google podcasts  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/journalofbiophilicdesign/ Twitter https://twitter.com/JofBiophilicDsn LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/company/journalofbiophilicdesign/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/journalofbiophilicdesign