Regenerative Design for Healthful Built Space

Julia Wix-Schillace // Adviser: Helen Joo

Regenerative Design for Healthful Built Space

While the benefits of access to nature for humans are well studied, our built environment instead tends to exploit and poison natural ecosystems. Regenerative design offers a solution by incorporating whole-systems thinking to restore, renew, and revitalize the resources and processes of our environment. This thesis utilizes regenerative design to create an Environmental Education Center that is beneficial to all stakeholders, especially the natural ecosystems in which a building lives.