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Regular interaction with ecology has a measurable positive impact on our health and well-being. Almost universally, we enjoy being “in nature.” We maintain our lawns, we build landscapes, and we are drawn to our natural surroundings.
Furbish, a Baltimore based company, aims to integrate living systems into the built environment seamlessly. The BioWall, an interior vertical garden, infuses ecology into spaces often stripped of any connection to nature. This was certainly the case with the JACK Thistledown Racino, a large casino in Cleveland, Ohio. Bright lights, screaming machines, and distractions from the outdoors make the novelty of this BioWall project so apropos.
JACK Thistledown broke from traditional casino interiors with this 2,300 square foot splash of nature in their atrium entrance. Every patron, employee, chef, security guard, maintenance worker—every human that enters the building—passes before this BioWall that proclaims, “you are not leaving nature behind!” The natural world accompanies you into this building. In this casino, ‘green’ is not just what you have in your pocket.
With each installation of a living system, we sequester some carbon, filter some indoor air, sometimes save some energy, and always enhance biophilia—the term coined by E. O. Wilson describing our urge to connect with nature. Jack Entertainment does so in a least-expected setting.
To learn more visit, furbishco.com
Annapolis Home Magazine
Vol. 10, No. 5 2019