Abstract
Edward O. Wilson noted in his Biophilia Hypothesis (1986) that humans need daily contact with the natural world to be healthy and experience wellbeing. The biophilia theory supports the argument that human habitated environments need to include elements of nature to provide us with psychological and physiological health. In highly densified cities made of tarmac, concrete, steel and glass with increasingly high-rise buildings and skyscrapers, it is almost impossible to have daily contact with nature. It is modern architecture and these buildings that are at the core of unhealthy and non-sustainable built environments. This chapter designates the first meta biophilic pattern—Direct Experience of Nature [1]—to inject nature back into cities.
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The relationship of the ‘biophilic patterns’ with the higher level ‘fundamental patterns’ of the Regenerative-Adaptive Pattern Language are further described in Chap. 7.
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Roӧs, P.B. (2022). Direct Experience of Nature [Pattern 1]. In: A Biophilic Pattern Language for Cities. Sustainable Urban Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19071-1_3
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