Our mission is to develop new design concepts for the realization of healthy inhabited space. We do this by forming unconventional interdisciplinary collaborations that conduct research where architecture, biology, medicine, chemistry, and engineering intersect and translate it into design, construction, and building operation through a consortium of invested industry partners. Our understanding of what a “healthy building” constitutes is fragmented, underdeveloped, and too often not reflected in practice. Therefore, the Institute for Health in the Built Environment pursues an integrated approach to conducting and applying research to develop health at multiple scales, from individual to planetary.
