How To Use Biophilia To Design Buildings That Generate Their Own Energy

Creating climate resilient, low-carbon urban environments and assets is a goal of governments and city planners in urban environments in order to increase their densities to reduce their footprint in the face of growing urban populations. ‘Biophilic urbanism’ is emerging as an important design principle for buildings and urban areas and has the potential to address multiple pressures related to climate change, increasing urban populations, finite resources as well as our inherent need for contact with nature. But how can we utilise this to increase sustainability?

Learning Outcomes 

By the end of this presentation, you should be able to:

• Understand why biophilic urbanism is emerging as an important design principle for buildings and urban areas and has the potential to address multiple pressures related to climate change.
• Understand how biophilic urbanism increases sustainability.
• Identify ways biophilic urbanism can help to achieve government policy to reduce their footprint in the face of growing urban populations.
• Outline some innovative uses of biophilic urbanism around the world.

(Competency codes: PC 25, PC 28, PC 31, PC 33)