With everyone’s’ busy schedules and routine days, it is very easy to become restless, bored and eager to give ourselves a mental break. Especially in facilities such as office buildings and schools, a typical user would spend a good majority of their time indoors undertaking multiple tasks.

“Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty half of the time. It is time we gave this some thought”         – Buckminster Fuller

People usually spend at least eight hours working, socializing, existing, in  built environments, in  a detached and dispassionate environment. Many built environments tend to ignore the inbuilt human need for sensory variety. Considering the fact that the average human spends a majority of their time in their workplace, shouldn’t it be critical to design a space that harmonizes with the occupants, an affectionate space that sympathizes with the occupants? The concept of a biophilic environment exhibits the instinctive and deep-rooted bond between living systems (such as plants) and humans. Bringing natural elements indoors undoubtedly helps improve indoor air quality, but it can also help evoke positive responses in people, and offers the sensory variation that us humans are frequently yearning for.

This study is intended to study social aspects through the lens of botany within detached facilities, an attempt to evoke cheerfulness in users through the interventions of botany. Can a biophilic environment help produce a more joyful and exuberant place?  Can a biophilic environment help turn space into place? The interventions will be generated as passively as possible to remain unintrusive to the results. If the outcomes are deemed effective to the occupants, then interventions will be implemented within studios/office spaces as well.