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
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Regenerative Design & Consulting Sustainable, biophilic, and neurosciencebased strategies that create thriving, resilient environments.
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Workplace & Well-Being Strategy Designing workplaces that boost creativity, focus, emotional resilience, and human flourishing.
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Hospitality & Experience-Driven Environments Immersive, multi-sensory spaces for resorts, retreats, and wellness destinations that nurture the body and spirit.
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Education & Masterclasses Empowering professionals with the knowledge to integrate biophilic, neuroarchitectural, and regenerative principles into transformative projects.
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Nature-Based Urbanism & Smart Cities Reimagining cities and communities through vibrant, climate-resilient, nature - connected design. List Item
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Healing Environments & NeuroInclusive Design Crafting spaces that support cognitive health, emotional balance, and sensory inclusivity for diverse communities.
We are not just building structures.
We are crafting a more beautiful, just, and life-affirming future.
Why Choose HEAL
We blend neuroscience, biophilic design, and regenerative systems to craft spaces that uplift well-being, restore nature, and spark innovation across homes, workplaces, and cities.
Holistic Evidence-Based
We design with neuroscience, biophilia, and regenerative thinking to support mental clarity, emotional balance, and ecosystem vitality.
In Partnership with Nature
Each space is a dialogue with nature; restorative, immersive, and rooted in deep respect for life.
Regenerative Innovation
We future-proof spaces through climate-adaptive design, multi-sensory experience, and planet-positive materials.
OUR CORE VALUES
At HEAL, we don’t just design. We stand for something deeper.
Our work is guided by values that anchor beauty, ethics, and transformation in every project.
EMPATHY
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INNOVATION
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VISONARY-THINKING
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CO-CREATION
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INTEGRITY
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HEALING ENVIRONMENTS
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EMPATHY *** INNOVATION *** VISONARY-THINKING *** CO-CREATION *** INTEGRITY *** HEALING ENVIRONMENTS ***
At HEAL, our work is grounded in empathy, innovation, visionary thinking, co-creation, integrity, and the creation of healing environments. These values guide every step we take from listening deeply to human and ecological needs, to daring new paths in regenerative and neuroscience-informed design. We envision a future built not just on sustainability, but on restoration and reconnection. Through collaboration, ethics, and a long-term commitment to life, we design spaces that help people and the planet truly thrive.
We Deliver for People, Planet, and Prosperity
At HEAL, we collaborate with visionaries across sectors to create spaces that heal, inspire, and endure.
Whether shaping a single room or an entire city, our work brings measurable impact, enhancing lives, regenerating ecosystems, and adding long-term value.
We Work With
Architects and Designers
We infuse projects with neuroscience, sensory intelligence, and biophilic systems, amplifying both beauty and performance.
Corporate Innovators
We transform offices into thriving environments that support mental clarity, creativity, and emotional resilience
Real Estate Developers
We help future-proof developments through regenerative, life-centered strategies that attract conscious investors and communities.
Urban Planners and Municipalities
We co-create nature-connected, climate-resilient cities that foster belonging, equity, and collective renewal.
Hospitality and Wellness Brands
We craft immersive, unforgettable experiences rooted in healing, nature, and deep well-being.
Educators, Researchers and Institutions
We partner with universities, think tanks, and learning hubs to embed biophilic, regenerative, and neuroscience-informed principles into the heart of education and knowledge creation.
Nuria Muñoz Arce - Co-Founder
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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 based in Valencia, Spain, with over two decades of experience in residential, commercial, and workplace design. She is the founder of Habitarmonia, a global ecosystem and academy dedicated to advancing biophilic, neuroscience-informed, and regenerative design.
Her work bridges interior architecture, environmental psychology, and sensory experience to help people create spaces that support emotional well-being, cognitive performance, and deep connection to nature. Nuria collaborates with developers, architects, wellness leaders, and educators to guide spatial strategies that are both human-centered and future-ready.
Through the Habitarmonia Academy, she has trained hundreds of professionals worldwide in well-being and biophilic design, and co-founded HEALarch, a consortium of experts using science and soul to shape healing environments.
Her mission is clear: to reimagine the built environment as a force for regeneration—of people, places, and planet.
Ali Heshmati – Architect | Researcher Health-Focused | Educator | Design Consultant | Founder LEADinc
Science + Design to Improve Lives
Award-winning architect with over 30 years of experience and a deep focus on the intersection of architecture, neuroscience, 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 design strategies that regulate circadian rhythms, reduce stress, and enhance quality of life. With over 30 international design awards, his portfolio includes projects across the US and Europe.
Ali collaborates with architects, developers, municipalities, and private clients to create environments that are not only beautiful and functional—but backed by research and optimized for human health, performance, and regeneration. “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
Transforming Spaces, Transforming Lives
Our Work in Action
15%
Biophilic Headquarters
+15% INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH OPTIMIZED LIGHT, SOUND, AND RESTORATIVE DESIGN
20%
Wellness Resort Integration
BOOSTED GUEST SATISFACTION AND BOOKINGS BY 20% WITH IMMERSIVE, SENSORY-FOCUSED DESIGN.
VIBRANT SPACES
Urban Regeneration Project
CREATED VIBRANT PUBLIC SPACES THAT IMPROVED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND ECOLOGICAL HEALTH.
Our brand vision
Life at the Center
At HEAL, we design from deep listening—not from templates.
We attune to land, to bodies, to the subtle dialogue between science and soul.
Because true creativity is not invention, but co-regulation—a process of sensing what wants to emerge through place, people, and purpose.
Our work weaves intuition with evidence, beauty with data.
Rooted in neuroscience, environmental psychology, and regenerative systems, we design spaces that heal, uplift, and endure.
This is not just design.
It’s a living collaboration—where presence meets precision, and where every space becomes an offering to life itself.
Some of Our Projects
Award- Winning Biophilic Home
Magazine Featured Biophilic Workplace
Award- Winning Biophilic Home
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