boutique Hotel consultants - wellness spaces & design guidelines

We provide interior design strategy and sustainability consulting services to family-owned and boutique hotels. For hotel projects under development, we collaborate with the development team and project architects on design guidelines and interior design solutions that integrate sustainability and wellness.

Biophilic design is a harmonious balance between nature, sustainability and wellbeing in real estate buildings and interiors. What is biophilia? It’s about bringing the outside world in to enhance the mental and physical health benefits of spending time in a building while minimizing its environmental impact. Biophilic design leverages biophilia - the innate human desire to connect with natural surroundings. The best examples of biophilic design not only look good, they integrate human wellbeing and environmental health, using nature as the glue to bind them together.

By using wellbeing design principles and evidence-based design we bring together the latest thinking in wellness lighting, enhanced indoor air quality, acoustics planning, healthy material choices and multi-sensory design to create interior spaces maximized for mental and physical wellbeing. We also integrate thermal comfort (temperature), olfactory comfort (odors), and visual comfort (glare, visibility, distractions) in wellbeing interiors to enhance mental and physical wellbeing. Relevant certifications include WELL and RESET.

A healthy building or wellness real estate strategy might incorporate HVAC ventilation rates and high-performance air filters; healthy interior materials; eco cleaning policies; healthy building signage, entryway systems, active travel facilities, active design interventions and dedicated spaces for physical exercise (such as fitness rooms) and mental rest (‘quiet rooms’ a.k.a. ‘respite rooms’). A healthy building plan involves the developer or owner, Human Resources, interior designers, facilities management and, in some cases, engages tenants as well. Relevant certifications include WELL and FITWEL.

A green building takes measures to improve its energy, water and waste efficiency; reduce its use of natural resources and re-introduce nature via biophilic design, green rooftops and low irrigation landscaping. We also consider initial site selection, to transportation options, operations and maintenance, indoor environmental quality and the building’s impact on the local community. Relevant green building certifications include LEED, BREEAM and hotel sustainability standards such as Green Globe and Green Key.