Tag: biophilia

• June 22, 2025

  The Psychology of Interiors – Chapter 3: Natural Materials, Biophillia, and the Calm Interior

  Chapter 2 showed that meaningful objects become emotional anchors. The next layer of psychological impact is the substrate itself – the timber underfoot, the linen that filters light, the clay that muffles sound. Decades of environmental-psychology and building-science research converge on one finding: natural materials stabilise physiology and evaluate mood more reliably than synthetic look-alike.…