Understood as the innate human affinity for other forms of life, has emerged as a profound design strategy that reconfigures the way we inhabit, imagine and construct space by integrating natural systems, materials and aesthetics not as ornament or background but as active agents in the shaping of experience, well-being and ecological awareness, and far from being a nostalgic return to nature, biophilic design represents a forward-looking methodology that incorporates living systems—vegetation, daylight, airflow, organic textures—into architectural vocabularies, generating multisensory environments that foster cognitive restoration, emotional regulation and social connection, as evidenced in the growing proliferation of vertical gardens, indoor forests, green façades, topiary interventions and plant-integrated furniture in both domestic and urban contexts, where nature is not only present but choreographed, curated and inhabited as part of the spatial narrative, offering microclimates of relief and multispecies interaction that question the anthropocentric rigidity of modern design, and this impulse is not merely aesthetic but deeply physiological and psychological, as supported by environmental psychology and neuroarchitecture, which highlight the measurable benefits of natural patterns, organic geometries and dynamic light on mood, attention and healing, thus redefining architecture as a porous interface between the built and the living, a co-evolutionary platform where matter grows, adapts and breathes alongside its inhabitants, transforming maintenance into care and presence into participation in an ongoing metabolic dialogue with the planet.
