It begins with empathy.
Empathy for all life.
Empathy for places.
Empathy for people.
At HEAL, empathy is the seed from which everything grows.
It is how we design, how we build, and how we restore the deep relationship between humans and the living world.
We believe architecture is not only about form and function; it is about feeling, physiology, and presence.
We design integrative, preventative environments that support human health, regulate the nervous system, and reconnect people with natural rhythms.
By uniting architecture, neuroscience, and nature, we create spaces that heal, restore balance, and elevate quality of life.
We reject architecture as a separating force.
Instead, we create environments that resynchronize human biology with the intelligence of nature.
Because better spaces create better lives.
Revolutionizing Architecture with Visionary Design
Revolutionizing Architecture with Visionary Design
WE DESIGN FOR LIFE
Neuroscience-informed, regenerative architecture for human and ecological well-being.
Our practice unites architecture, neuroscience, and nature to cultivate environmentally healthy ecosystems,
places where well-being becomes tangible and the built environment itself acts as medicine.
Through embodied experience and scientific rigor, we listen to the pulse of place:
to what the land, the body, and the moment are asking.
We do not design from templates or predetermined solutions.
We design from deep listening, physiological insight, and environmental intelligence.
Every project is informed by the subtle dialogue between science and soul,
by light, air, sound, materiality, rhythm, and human perception,
ensuring that each environment actively supports health, performance, and restoration.
True creativity is not pure invention.
It is co-creation: a continuous process of attuning people, place, and purpose
into environments that sustain life, now and into the future.
Architecture as medicine
We nurture health, individually and collectively. Every project we co-create seeks to nurture health, not as an isolated outcome, but as a shared experience of wholeness.
We align environments with human rhythms, needs, and emotions; from light, air, sound, sight, and material, to meaning, beauty, and belonging.
Our work is rooted in neuroscience, environmental psychology, and regenerative systems to create environments that heal, uplift, and nourish.
Science-Informed Design
We integrate measurable physiological and neurobiological biomarkers into the design process, improving circadian health, sleep, mood, cognitive performance, and overall physiological well-being.
Biophilic Design
We design from the understanding that we are nature, not separate from it. Through our work, we reconnect people and places, restoring harmony between the built world and the living world.
Through the integrative design process, we restore the harmonious, symbiotic relationship between the built and natural environments.
Regenerative Systems
We design spaces that give back more than they take away. This involves creating environments that actively restore balance and improve the vitality of people, planet, and purpose in a continuous, positive feedback loop.
We co-create the future of healing environments
HEAL is a laboratory for co-creation, where architects, designers, scientists, and visionaries work together to shape regenerative spaces for living, healing, and becoming.
We believe that architecture, when rooted in empathy and awareness, can become a catalyst for transformation, a bridge between health, home, and humanity.
Three Synergetic Branches
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HEAL Design
It begins with Empathy
Design to sustain Life.
We co-create environments, experiences, and design strategies that restore balance between people, planet, and purpose.
Our work includes:
•Health in Built Environments
•Biophilic Design Strategies
•Daylighting & Lighting Design
•Healing Interior Environments
•Healing Gardens & Landscape Architecture
•Workplaces Health & Performance
•Educational Spaces
•Hospitality & Wellness
•Hospitals, Hospices & Care Facilities
•Residential & Urban Environments
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HEAL Lab
It begins with curiosity
Our innovation lab bridges science and practice. We explore how design impacts the brain, body, and behavior, applying research into real-world spatial experiences.
We challenge the current and dominant paradigm of architecture as a decoupling force from the natural environment.
Where physiological health becomes the unbiased arbiter of design; function, form, and technology take supporting roles, architecture acts as a bridge between nature and culture, supporting our natural rhythms.
Through research and design, we are looking for biomarkers of the embodied experience in order to optimize the built environment to support quality of life.
Our research includes:
•Scientific Research & Publication on the Health Impact of the Built Environment
•Collaboration with Academic Institutions to improve building technologies
•Publishing White Papers & Books
• Publishing design guidelines and handbooks
• Environmental and Behavioral Research
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HEAL Academy
It begins with agency
We train the next generation of change-makers through courses, masterclasses, and events that merge deep knowledge with applied design strategies on the impact of the built environment on health and well-being.
We offer:
•Creation and Co-creation of Courses & Programs
•Professional Education & Masterclasses
•Publishing Educational Guidelines
•Educational Webinars
•Collaborative creation of symposiums and conferences
We collaborate with visionaries.
At HEAL, we partner with forward-thinking leaders across disciplines who are ready to design for health, resilience, and regeneration.
We don’t just offer services, we walk alongside those shaping the future of how people live, play, work, learn, heal, and belong.
Where others deliver projects, we co-create living systems.
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Architects & Designers
We help you design with neuroscience-informed tools, sensory intelligence, and biophilic strategies, enabling you to move beyond mere aesthetics into spaces that support human and planetary health.
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Corporate Innovators
We redesign workplaces as living ecosystems for focus, creativity, and emotional resilience, supporting wellbeing, performance, and leadership through spatial intelligence.
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Real Estate Developers
We integrate regenerative and wellbeing design into asset strategy, increasing long-term value, desirability, and future resilience through life-centered environments.
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Urban Planners & Municipalities
We help cities reconnect with life, designing public spaces and urban systems that enhance ecological health, social cohesion, and climate adaptation.
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Hospitality & Wellness Brands
We create immersive experiences where architecture becomes medicine, designing destinations rooted in restoration, sensory richness, and nature-led identity.
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Educators, Researchers & Institutions
We partner with learning pioneers to embed neuroscience, biophilia, and regenerative design into education, research, and built environments that support human development.
Nuria Muñoz Arce - Co-Founder
Learn more
Ali Heshmati- Co-Founder
Nuria Muñoz – Biophilic Design Consultant | Educator | Founder of Habitarmonia
Designing spaces that heal, inspire, and reconnect us with nature.
Nuria Muñoz is an award-winning designer, consultant, and educator with over twenty years of international experience across residential, commercial, hospitality, and workplace design.
She is the founder of Habitarmonia, a global ecosystem and academy dedicated to advancing biophilic, neuroscience-informed, and regenerative design through education, consulting, and community.
As a biophilic design expert, Nuria works internationally with architects, developers, brands, and institutions, helping integrate nature-based intelligence into the built environment while guiding professionals back to the living roots of their creativity and belonging
Her work bridges interior architecture, environmental psychology, and sensory experience, enabling clients and students alike to create environments that support emotional well-being, cognitive performance, and deep connection with place.
Nuria is known not only for what she designs, but for her ability to awaken a more conscious way of designing, living, and leading through space.
Ali Heshmati – Architect | Researcher Health-Focused | Educator | Design Consultant | Founder LEADinc
Science + Design to Improve Lives
AAward-winning architect with over 30 years of experience and a deep focus on the intersection of architecture, neuroscience, nature, culture, and human health. As a PhD candidate and member of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA), Ali integrates measurable physiological and neurobiological biomarkers into the design process — improving circadian health, sleep, mood, cognitive performance, and overall well-being.
His work spans from schools and workplaces to elderly care and urban design, translating science into creative design strategies that regulate circadian rhythms, reduce stress, and enhance quality of life. Ali’s work in the USA and Europe has been celebrated by more than 40 awards of excellence.
"I am preoccupied with what architecture does, rather than what architecture is."
Meet the HEAL Collective
Visionaries, Designers, Scientists, and Storytellers
United by One Mission: To Heal Spaces and Inspire Life
WHAT WE STAND FOR
At HEAL, our work is guided by values that anchor beauty, responsibility, and transformation in everything we create.
From deep listening to bold innovation, these principles shape how we design, collaborate, and take responsibility for the future of the built environment.
These are not abstract ideals.
They are the living foundation of our practice.
Empathy
We begin every project with listening to people, to place, and to the living systems already at work.
Empathy is our design intelligence.
Innovation
We dare to question.
We move beyond convention.
By bridging intuition and evidence, we open new pathways in regenerative and neuroscience-informed design.
Visionary Thinking
We design for tomorrow, not just for now.
Our vision extends beyond sustainability into restoration, renewal, and reconnection.
Co-Creation
We believe meaningful change happens together.
We collaborate across disciplines, cultures, and perspectives, because the future is built collectively.
Integrity
We practice transparency, responsibility, and ethical care.
Our work is guided by long-term thinking and a deep respect for people and planet.
Healing Environments
Everything we design serves life.
Our goal is to create spaces that support health, vitality, and wholeness, for individuals, communities, and ecosystems alike.
Stewardship
We treat every project as a responsibility, not a transaction; stewarding our clients’ values, resources, and trust with care and integrity.
Some of Our Projects
Award- Winning Biophilic Home
Magazine Featured Biophilic Workplace
Ambiente Galeria
Let's create something extraordinary together.
Whether you're designing a single room or reimagining an entire city, HEAL is here to help you create spaces that heal, inspire, and nurture.