Bring us your hardest environment.

Space & extreme environments

Sealed, isolated, far from Nature, for a long time.

Off-world habitats, polar stations, ships, remote sites. The places where a regulated nervous system is not a luxury but a condition of the mission.

• Nervous System Design applied to confinement and isolation
• Breath and air research, from the membrane to the room
• Light patterns that make a day where there is none
• Grown materials as the first living matter on board
• Prototypes built and tested on bodies

Grown matter · drying cabinet

Developers

Homes buyers can feel.

Nervous System Design specified across a development: patterns, briefs and standards your architects can build to, and a story residents recognise in their bodies.

• The Domestic Recovery Standard, applied across many homes
• Biological Briefs for typologies and communities
• Design direction through to completion
• Shared spaces designed for gathering and recovery

Bondi Breeze · light, filtered

Wellness & hospitality

Places people come to recover.

Two decades designing restaurants, bars, salons and retreats, now grounded in research. Spaces paced to how a body actually slows down.

• Arrival, light, air, water and touch designed as one sequence
• Treatment and rest rooms briefed by the body
• Installations and objects that regulate, not decorate
• Concept through to opening day

Headcase · the wash as a ritual of water

Architects & design teams

Your client's body is in the brief.

We write the Biological Brief for your project and work alongside your team: the conditions the building has to deliver, and why. Or we take the interiors through to completion with you.

• A Biological Brief for each household or user group
• Spatial strategy from biology, before the floor plan
• Review of design stages against the brief
• Interiors, objects and styling to completion

The Bantry Project · stairwell

Schools

Rooms for attention, and for coming down.

Every school day asks a nervous system to focus, cope and recover. We design classrooms and regulation spaces that help, considered for every kind of learner, including neurodivergent children.

• Regulation and retreat spaces within earshot of the room
• Light, sound and air that do not tire
• Movement built into the day
• Research partnerships with schools

Breath test · healthy habitats research

Homes

Before the floor plan, your household.

Each adult and each child answers privately, in their own words, about how they sleep, rest, move and recover. We read the biology and turn it into the conditions your home has to meet. Then we can lead the project, or work alongside your architect.

• A private Biological Brief, never published
• Especially for burnout, neurodivergence, ageing and poor sleep
• Full design service through to completion, anywhere in the world

Bathing in the trees · Happy Little House

Universities, labs & artists

Open questions, shared.

Research groups, space agencies, museums and artists working where the body meets the built world. We bring live prototypes, a body of field evidence and two decades of building to completion. We are looking for partners to test them with.

• Doctoral and post-doctoral research collaboration
• Joint studies: physiology, breath, light, grown materials
• Installations and exhibitions that people feel, not only see
• Prototypes, data and methods shared openly as the work allows

Method · motion capture