A transdisciplinary research project exploring how biophilic design and nature‑based retrofitting can support climate resilience, nature recovery, and human wellbeing.
Communities face increasing climate pressures — heat, flooding, storms, drought — and declining access to nature. Traditional infrastructure alone cannot meet these challenges.
Understanding the real‑world barriers and enablers that shape biophilic living, especially in urban areas affected by long‑term underinvestment.
BIOME Swansea — a major retrofit of a former Woolworths building — serves as a living case study for biophilic design in practice.
Evidence‑based frameworks, valuation insights, design principles, and new models of collaborative working that can be replicated across the UK and internationally.
Researchers, practitioners, community partners, and an international advisory board spanning architecture, ecology, psychology, anthropology, economics, and cultural studies.