Just as we lay out lighting plans or HVAC schematics, designers should be building acoustic palettes for every biophilic project. This means not just minimising mechanical hum or insulating street noise but actively inviting natural sounds into the experience.

How a mountaintop phone call, a coastal site, and quiet conviction shaped a retreat in Tottori Good design often begins with a feeling....

f there’s a thesis to IWADO BASE, it’s this: comfort doesn’t require spectacle. Sometimes, it just needs silence and shelter. In an era where most hospitality design leans toward thematic overstatement: tropical maximalism, urban brutalism, desert modernism… It’s rare to see a project that steps aside and lets place take precedence.