Biophilic Building for Human Resilience: The Spine Liverpool, the Royal College of Physicians New HQ

The WELL Building Standard was created by Delos Living LLC and is a performance-based system for certifying and monitoring the built environment and its connection to user health and wellbeing. When compiling the WELL Building Standard, Delos unsurprisingly referred to much of the RCP’s research. So, together with the client’s brief for the occupants ‘to be healthier when they walk out of the building than when they walk in’, WELL was a natural starting point for Hopkins to work from, when designing The Spine. Hopkins later commissioned Salvedge Sustainable Design Ltd to work with his design team, in providing biophilic and salutogenic design strategies, to help them attain the highest standards possible in WELL and BREEAM. This Case Study catalogues the results of their combined design approaches.