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‘Our homes should protect us from harm, restore our bodies and minds, and enable us to grow through life’s stages’

Column architecture and urban planning once again lead to unexpected breakthroughs – both creatively and practically – while improving people’s lives?

Such questions have inspired SPACE10’s recent research into health at home. To be healthy, we believe our homes should protect us from harm, restore our bodies and minds, and enable us to grow through life’s stages.

These three themes have shaped our recent Healthy Home report, a global exploration of ideas, innovations and local solutions that point to how we can create dwellings that are better for us. From iridescent paint that cools our homes to furniture that inspires play to reduce loneliness, and architecture that connects humans with the local biome, the report is an invitation to use health as a guiding principle across a wide range of design disciplines.

We also share thought-starters for architects and designers wishing to build healthier homes. Focused on

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