Alive Labs featured in Journal of Biophilic Design monograph

We've just been featured in a monograph by the Journal of Biophilic Design.

Not just as a case study, but as part of a wider conversation about where design is heading.

At Alive Labs, we've been exploring a simple but uncomfortable question:

What if nature isn't something we add to buildings — but something we build with?

Our moss-based systems started with a fascination for one of the most overlooked materials in the natural world. But the deeper inspiration came from something older than architecture itself: Terra Preta — the ancient Amazonian soils that weren't discovered, but made, through a relationship between people, biology, and place.

That idea shaped everything.

Moss became more than a surface material — it became a way of thinking about living systems in architecture. From interiors where it brings calm, acoustics and air quality benefits, to exterior applications where it starts to behave like scalable living infrastructure.

The monograph explores this journey — from origin story, to material research, to the broader question of what "living architecture" actually means in practice.

We're proud to be part of a field that's no longer asking whether nature belongs in design — but how far we're willing to take it.

You can read the monograph on the embed below, or directly here.