Architecture using timber can improve our mental well-being and sequester carbon within our buildings. Marie-France Stendahl is an architect with White Architecture and teaches Lund University in Sweden. In this episode we discuss: the concept of using architecture as medicine to heal our mental health and opportunities for using timber to sequester carbon to heal the planet.

 

Building professionals globally are turning to timber as it provides a healthier, environmentally friendly, sustainable, efficiently off-site prefabricated solution that dramatically reduces construction times and accordingly the overall cost of the project.

 

If you want to find out more about the biophilic design research, go to:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/wood-at-work

 

Check out the WoodSolutions website, the world's biggest website on wood:

www.woodsolutions.com.au

 

The WS Technical Design Guide can be found here:

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/articles/mid-rise-timber-buildings-design-guides