“The New Luxury”: Well-Living Spaces (The Art of Well-Living)
“The New Luxury”: Well-Living Spaces (The Art of Well-Living)
Today, more and more people are taking a personal interest in wellness and longevity and making well-being part of their lives. Those who already practice a wide range of well-living solutions (healthy food, sleep, exercise, holistic therapies, etc.) are also showing a growing interest in wearable health technologies.
Biohacking (the regulation of one’s own biology), which has grown around the motto “Be the CEO of Your Own Health,” is, in essence, the lifestyle modifications we have been talking about for years, now infused with up-to-date knowledge, technology and awareness.
Alongside the nutritional supplement industry that has flourished over the past 20 years, increasingly popular traditional medicine practices (ozone therapy, phytotherapy, aromatherapy, acupuncture, etc.) and their holistic applications have come to support healthy longevity.
While the impact of all these personal solutions on our lives, which will become even more personalized in the years ahead, defines one kind of luxury, a new “luxury” that is still rarely talked about is beginning to blossom: the concept of well-living spaces, or Well-Living.
The workplaces and homes where we spend most of our time must, without doubt, be in harmony with the well-being efforts we make as individuals. Designing Healthy-Living homes is now an inescapable necessity, and the “new” definition of luxury.
Within the Well-Living concept, beyond how homes and offices are configured, it is also important that shared living spaces align with the principles of wellness and longevity. The “WELL Building” certification awarded by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is the first step toward this perspective. By adding today’s key focus, wellness, to the green and smart building standards applied in building certification for years, this certification assesses living spaces against hundreds of verified parameters across 12 different categories, such as air, water, mental health protection and social environment.
Another step is shaping living spaces in line with the concept of well-being. Depending on the type of space (residential complex, office, office tower, hospital, etc.), the necessary analyses are carried out and a well-being-integrated strategy is defined. Built around the five core criteria of healthy longevity, this strategy shapes the spaces where people spend long hours so that they support Right Nutrition, Right Exercise, Right Breathing, Right Sleep and Right Hydration.
At its core, this is a matter of awareness and a shift in paradigm and behavior. No matter how diligently we apply our own “biohacking” methods as individuals, a holistic result is out of reach if the spaces we live in are not aligned with that mindset. In this way, it is not only the long, healthy life that adults secure for themselves through personal longevity practices that takes shape, but also the healthy future of our children. Children who grow up in a well-living-focused environment, one that eliminates the health risks architecture and technology bring along with their many attractions and integrates the elements that serve our health, will become the healthier, more well-being-conscious adults of tomorrow.
