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Earth Architecture - Healthy Holistic Architectur

Enno Wiersma

Netherlands

Enno Wiersma got masters in engineering at the architectural department of technical university in Delft.

The international career includes projects in: The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Vienna (Austria), Tokyo - Osaka (Japan), Mali (Africa), Mexico, New York - California (U.S.A.). Habitation Space International Award 1981 for two projects: the Arts & Crafts Center in Amsterdam; the House in Haaften.

The architectural studio promotes ecological and healthy building physically as well as spiritually. Live should be ecological and healthy. The studio tries to improve health through architecture. To know which factors  of a building are influencing health and wellbeing of their inhabitants is not easy. Asbestos is one brilliant example. Used over years and finally found to be toxic. Another example is general health problems that can be found in people who on a day to day base work/live in the same unhealthy, polluted building. Headaches, depression, uso. Which are only recently found to appear, not due to the inhabitants disease but the unhealthy condition the building is in. There are several reasons leading to those problems. Like air-condition, to little/much light, wet walls and humidity, mould, allergy producing building materials uso. The more we get to know about these influences to the human mind and body the more theories like Feng Shui and holistic anthroposophical theories get rediscovered in an architectural context and integrated into an organic, holistic and healthy entireness.

Enno Wiersma puts it in a very simple way:
“The benefits of eating healthy are well known by now, those of building healthy are only just about to shine through.” 

More information under: www.stratosphere.org