At Elizabeth and Hawthorne, this project transforms biohacking from a personal habit into an architectural agenda, one where space adapts to people, microclimates shift intelligently, and wellness becomes a spatial experience. Through climate hacking, the project creates adaptive environments shaped by solar performance, an extensive landscape, and hybrid indoor–outdoor zones. Nature becomes an active design partner, offering restorative biophilic spaces alongside speculative mental-health interventions that range from subtle atmospheric support to advanced therapeutic technology.

Wellness extends beyond the human body and includes the environment itself. The building employs glulam and CLT to drastically lower embodied carbon, achieving net-zero carbon for nearly eight years. Through bioclimatic design, we reduce EUI, optimize solar gains, and produce more on-site energy than the building requires.

The design acknowledges a closed-loop relationship between people and place: we shape buildings and buildings shape us.

Developed collaboratively with Faith Tootle, LEED GA, who led sustainability strategies, while I served as design lead