Top 7+ Biophilic Design Trends Transforming House Architecture in 2025

Living Walls Go High-Tech

Living walls are no longer just decorative plant displays - they've evolved into sophisticated ecosystems that actively improve your home's air quality. Smart green walls and green roofs, equipped with sensors to monitor air quality, humidity, and plant health, will become standard features in commercial and residential buildings.

These cutting-edge systems use real-time data to optimize watering schedules and nutrient delivery automatically. Costs are varied depending on the project, but on average the cost for installing a living wall system, complete with plants, is $195 – $265 per sq ft.

Living walls can filter pollutants and toxins from the air, improving indoor air quality by absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. The latest innovations include modular systems that make maintenance easier and allow homeowners to swap plants seasonally.

They have become increasingly popular in the last eight years in the U.S. and are becoming more common in residential homes and apartment buildings, especially in cities where space is limited.

Smart Light Systems That Mirror Nature

We long for the all-important natural cues – lighting and air conditions especially – that synch with our deeply ingrained 24-hour circadian clocks. Advanced biophilic lighting systems now use sensors to track outdoor light conditions and automatically adjust indoor lighting to match nature's rhythm throughout the day.

Darwin Circadian Lighting by Delos promises to improve hormone balance, appetite, sleep, energy, and productivity by mirroring natural light patterns throughout the day. The maximization of light maximizes the amount and intensity of sunlight entering the room by monitoring the external environment through the heliostat and luminance sensors and through the interaction of the indoor environment controller and actuator according to the collected information.

Think of it like having a personal sunrise and sunset every day, regardless of weather or season. Colorbeam's LED lighting solutions can produce millions of colors, including a mode designed to mimic a complete sunrise-to-sunset day bathed in natural light.

These systems can even project nature scenes like sunlight filtering through leaves or water reflections onto walls.

Curved Architecture Embraces Organic Forms

Following the more organic aesthetic, 36% of industry professionals say curves will be popular in 2025 as furniture and home design rounds edges and leaves more rigid features behind. Gone are the days when every house looked like a box - today's biophilic homes flow like rivers and bend like trees.

In that sense, the power of curved, free-flowing surfaces is unmatched, which explains why they have been making a comeback as a modern design trend. Adopting beautiful nature-inspired shapes, organic curls and bends energize rooms and make users feel good.

In fact, neuroscientists have shown that this affection is hard-wired into the brain; in a 2013 study, they found that participants were most likely to consider a space beautiful if it was curvilinear instead of rectilinear. Imagine living in a home where your kitchen island curves like a coastline or your staircase spirals like a nautilus shell.

However, thanks to the plasticity of concrete and other materials, new patterns began to emerge, resulting in more organic and curvy lines. Whether for visual effects or more technical reasons such as better adjusting to the terrain, curved elements certainly provide a unique perception of the space, both from the outside and from the inside.

Natural Materials Take Center Stage

Homeowners are becoming more conscious about the materials they're using in their homes. Instead of plastic and synthetic materials, they're opting for natural, untreated wood.

Raw stone, reclaimed wood, bamboo, and clay are replacing synthetic materials in unexpected ways throughout homes. The Biophilic Design trend takes inspiration from organic materials like stone, clay, wood and sand to create calm, grounded spaces.

Designers and homeowners are incorporating more earthy tones in their colour palettes and choosing patterns and textures that echo those we find in nature. Picture walking into a home where the kitchen countertops are hewn from live-edge wood slabs and the bathroom walls feature natural stone that still shows fossilized imprints.

In lieu of bright green, opt for rich, warmer tones like earthy browns and deep, murky greens. They balance nicely with sandy neutrals and mushroom greys, that together, create a palette that feels soothing and sophisticated.

These materials don't just look beautiful - they actually help regulate humidity and improve indoor air quality naturally.

Multifunctional Spaces Connect Indoor and Outdoor Living

Multifunctional spaces that often combine guest rooms, offices, playrooms, or exercise areas will continue to be a top trend, according to 31% of experts. Modern biophilic design creates seamless transitions between indoor and outdoor spaces, making your home feel like it extends into nature itself.

Biophilic design in 2025 will prioritize creating versatile spaces that serve multiple purposes. From office buildings incorporating biofilter living walls that act as air purifiers and sound barriers to retail environments using biophilic elements to enhance customer experience and promote relaxation, multi-functional green spaces will be a top priority.

Think sliding glass walls that disappear completely, covered outdoor kitchens, and gardens that flow right into living rooms. For example, adding some lights to your garden, and placing a cosy armchair and footstool next to a large window so you can admire nature no matter the time or weather.

Perhaps you'd add some more plants and trees to your garden—so that every window and door becomes a living picture frame. The market is brimming with innovative designs that enable seamless transformations within a space, from convertible sofa beds and wall-mounted folding tables to modular storage solutions and sliding partitions.

As we look to the future, we expect the trend of multifunctional spaces to endure as it evolve in response to changing lifestyles, technological advancements, and environmental considerations.

Air Purification Systems Go Natural

Equipped with sensors, it automatically adjusts mist levels based on temperature and humidity, ensuring optimal air quality with minimal maintenance. This dual-purpose design integrates nature and technology, enhancing both air purification and room aesthetics.

Smart home systems now incorporate plants as active air purifiers, using sensors to monitor and optimize their performance. One series of smart plants, called Biome, also include smart sensors and fans.

The sensors monitor airborne pollution around the plants and use the information to adjust the airflow over the plant's roots, where microbes consume pollutants as nutrients. It's like having a mini forest working 24/7 to clean your air, but with the precision of modern technology.

Olus is a compact, biophilic air purifier designed for small urban spaces, featuring fully biodegradable filters to cut down on landfill waste. The two-stage filtration system uses dried moss and a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter to clean the air, while a digital display shows air quality and temperature.

These systems can detect specific pollutants and automatically adjust ventilation or trigger additional purification measures. Some homes now feature moss walls that naturally absorb humidity and purify air without any electricity at all.

Wellness-Focused Environmental Control

"One of the most significant architectural trends in 2025 is the growing prioritisation of wellness and healing within the home," says Jennifer Payette, architectural designer at SHH Architecture & Interiors, "As a society, we're finding new and more holistic ways to support both physical and mental health — and this is reshaping how people want to live. More and more, our clients are looking for daily access to wellness in the comfort and privacy of their own space." Your home's environment now adapts to your mood and health needs automatically, just like a forest changes with the seasons.

Compared to other age groups, the elderly preferred services that were mainly attributed to factors such as 'Immersion and interaction with nature' (A), 'Management of well-being and indoor environmental quality (IEQ)' (B), and 'Natural process and systems' (F). Smart sensors monitor everything from air quality to humidity to sound levels, adjusting each element to create the perfect environment for relaxation, focus, or sleep.

In order to achieve a pleasant air quality and a comfortable thermal environment, namely "Pleasant air and Thermal", indoor natural ventilation is induced through external environment monitoring; the HVAC system automatically adjusts the indoor environment according to the weather to respond to changes in the external environment. Imagine a home that knows when you're stressed and automatically dims lights, plays nature sounds, and adjusts temperature to help you unwind.

"Well-being is also a big factor of this trend" says our Head of Interior Design, Kelly Collins "Many of us seek to create spaces that foster a connection to nature. This approach not only lifts your mood, it evokes a sense of calm." The future of home design isn't about choosing between technology and nature - it's about making them dance together in perfect harmony.

Who knew your house could become your personal wellness sanctuary that grows smarter every day?