Top-10 Design Guidelines

  1. Maximize the use of unprocessed building materials of natural origin.
  2. Use wall, floor, and ceiling materials that allow air diffusion.
  3. Use hygroscopic building materials that allow natural self-regulation of indoor air humidity.
  4. Use thermal radiation in heating, employing as much solar energy as possible.
  5. Minimize harmful electromagnetic radiation from wiring and appliances.
  6. Use interior surface materials that allow air filtration and pollutant neutralization.
  7. Preserve physiologically advantageous ionization.
  8. Minimize the alteration of natural electric and magnetic fields.
  9. Minimize the alteration of beneficial cosmic and terrestrial radiation.
  10. Design shapes and proportion in harmonic order.

What single variable has the most significant impact on these design guidelines?

Choice of building materials is the single most important variable in determining the impact of a building on its environment and the health of its occupants.

Which building materials should I choose?

Timber, earth, and straw are the recommended materials of choice based on the Bau-Biologie Relative Worth of Construction Materials table.

"The presence of soul in a building… involves use of natural building materials and honoring their past lives."

Tom Bender – Building with the Breath of Life