Healing Cradle

The Healing Cradle project pioneers a movement to change the way the world designs and builds architecture. Today, buildings are passive as they house function to help meet occupant need. Yet, the Healing Cradle pulls architectural evolution from passive design to interactive design to adaptive design. And when such adaptive environments are fused with multi-sensory design – architecture fosters function; which in turn serves to meet occupant need, but also goes beyond this to help occupants overcome challenges, and actualize their desired short-term and long-term goals. In essence, this Healing Cradle project unlocks the critical role environments have in helping people become the best version of themselves – in this case, by helping them to heal more quickly, with greater quality, and with optimized resilience. This demonstrates how in the future, environmental designers can transform built environments from merely functioning as vessels that contain functionality, into vehicles that nurture functionality by helping occupants to get from where they are to where they want to be.