real estate SUSTAINABILITY & WELLBEING design consultants

biophilic design, wellness interiors and healthy building services

Barcelona, Spain and London, UK

Based in Barcelona (Spain) and London (UK), Biofilico was established in 2018 and now operates at the intersection of health, wellbeing, sustainability and the built environment.

Our services cover biophilic design, wellness interior design and wellbeing strategy, sustainable interiors and buildings and healthy buildings consultants.

Sister company Biofit provides design consultant services specifically for health and wellness spaces such as gyms, spas and leisure spaces.

Green Healthy Places is our strategic advisory arm, providing sustainability and wellbeing strategy to the real estate and hospitality sectors, no creative involved here.

clients

client list

Guesthouse Hotels (boutique hotels)

sites around the UK

Porto Montenegro (mixed-use real estate)

Tivat, Montenegro

Sani-Ikos Group (hotels & resorts)

resorts around the Mediterranean

Bolton Group (FMCG conglomerate)

Milano, Italy

The HVN (medi-wellness)

London, UK

Al Wajba Palace (VIP residential complex)

Qatar

Hero Group (FMCG conglomerate)

Lenzburg, Switzerland

Fusion Group (student accommodation)

sites around the UK

Black Mountain Partners (property fund)

London, UK

ZEL / Melia (hotels & resorts)

Mallorca, Spain

designing green healthy building like a good ancestor

How do biophilic design, sustainability, and healthy buildings fit into an evolutionary perspective on life? What does a cross-generational worldview bring to our game as biophilic design consultants? How do we join the dots between an eco gym facility and a green building? Watch Matt’s 2024 TEDx talk to find out.

Matt Morley TEDx talk 2024

credentials

team

a face to the name

biographies

  • Matt advises on wellbeing and sustainability for the real estate and hospitality sectors. He is a certified green building professional and a natural health & fitness expert with a specialism in creating biophilic, nature-inspired spaces.

    Biofilico is his wellness interiors consultancy offering ESG advisory, wellbeing interiors and healthy building certification services. 

    Biofit Health & Fitness is his gym design & fitness business providing concept development, gym interiors, equipment procurement & mindful movement training to hospitality brands and real estate developers.

    From 2010-2019 Matt was Brand Director for Porto Montenegro, a Eur 500 million mixed-use real estate development and marina community on the Adriatic Coast where his cross-departmental role engaged with Construction, Operations & Marketing teams to deliver new concepts such as serviced residences, a sports club, beach club, pool club, nightclub, sports field, sports bar and organic cafe. 

    He has a BA in European Studies (History, Italian, French) from UCL, London, an advanced specialization in French Language & Civilization from the University of Paris La Sorbonne and a Masters in Marketing from the IED Milano.

    Matt has a range of green building and healthy building credentials to his name, from BREEAM Associate, to RESET AIR Professional, LIVING FUTURE, FITWEL Ambassador, Green Globe sustainable Hotel Leader and ACTIVE SCORE Professional.

  • Dina has a BA in Architecture from the University of Wroclaw in Poland and worked for several years as interior designer for a Polish hotel brand, in-house, where she was responsible for creating new concepts, sub-brands and communal area interiors. 

    She is an expert in realistic 3D renders and adapts her style to fit each client brief.

  • Derby-based Polly has over 13 years of experience as an interior designer in the hospitality and residential real estate sectors.

    She is a WELL AP and has a strong interest in sustainable, healthy buildings and interiors.

    During her time at Macauley Sinclair Interior Architecture & Design as a Senior Interior Designer, she worked on projects for clients including Dishoom, Hawksmoor, The Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Oakman Inns.

    Other project experience around the UK includes food halls, offices, residences and pop-up events.

  • Charlie Morley is a bestselling author and teacher of mindfulness, lucid dreaming and shadow integration.

    He was “authorised to teach” within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism by Lama Yeshe Rinpoche in 2008. Since then he has written four books which have been translated into 15 languages and has run workshops & retreats in more than 20 countries.

    He’s spoken at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Ministry of Defence Mindfulness Symposium, The Houses of Parliament (on Buddhism & youth culture) and the Mindfulness Association Annual conferences.

    In 2018 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship grant to research PTSD treatment in Military Veterans and continues to teach people with trauma-affected sleep a set of practices called Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep.  He has given his own TED Talk and has just released a Mindvalley online course. 

podcast

the wellness company building homes

Episode 079 with Dean Jarvis of Veda Homes, UK

AN ANCESTRAL PERSPECTIVE ON REAL ESTATE

Episode 078 with Matt Morley

sustainable wellness in aparthotels

Episode 077 with James Fry of Beyond Apartments

trend reports

biophilic design: part 1

Real estate developers, architecture studios, mixed-use developments and offices doing big things in biophilic design

biophilic design: part 2

Residential developments, restaurants, hotels and retail stores pushing the boundaries of biophilic design

longevity & recovery in spa design

Hotel spas, red light therapy, float tanks, cryotherapy, infrared saunas and ice baths

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FAQs

+ What are biophilic design consultant services?

Biophilic design tackles the industrialized world’s human-nature disconnect through architecture and interiors that embrace nature.

Key elements include the use of plants & flowers; natural shapes, colours, patterns, textures, scents, sounds and materials, as well as circadian lighting.

These are nothing more nor less than ancestral responses to a relatively recent problem, what we proudly label biophilic design therefore is merely an attempt to restore the previous harmony between nature and humans on this planet!

+ What are healthy building design consultant services?

Healthy building design or wellness design takes this concept a step further by adding an emphasis on the human health and wellbeing benefits of the built environment - be it a home, office, gym, school or hospital.

Key elements of this service cover non-toxic materials, exercise and movement, active design, active travel, nutrition and hydration, indoor air quality, acoustic solutions, thermal comfort and a building’s operational policies such as eco-cleaning protocols.

+ What are green building consultant services?

Green building consultants aim to reduce the harm done to the planet to an absolute minimum when designing our built environment, where possible even doing good by contributing back to each community or site, for example in terms of energy consumption, or job employment.

Key elements of this consultancy service include selection of sustainable building materials alongside architects; waste management plans, recycling and energy-saving techniques as well as water management, green rooftops and other biophilic design or landscaping interventions using no or low-irrigation plant species.

+ What are real estate ESG consultant services?

Real estate ESG consultants cover Environmental, Social and Governance themes on behalf of a real estate fund or real estate developer, integrating sustainability, human wellbeing and ethical business practices.

Environmental issues include energy, water, waste, materials, carbon footprint and sustainability certifications. Social issues include DEI, employee engagement, human capital, social impact, health & safety, stakeholder engagement and certifications. Governance issues include compliance, data privacy, stakeholder engagement, policy development, risk management and a responsible supply chain.

contact

Contact us.

Registered office: 86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE, UK

Spanish office: Montoya, Carrer d’Avila 32, Barcelona 08005, ESPANA