Atellior's Executive Director Una Barac took part in a digital roundtable: 'Sensory Bathroom Design', organised by Space International Hotel Design Magazine.
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SPACE International Hotel Design Magazine hosts a number of online discussions. With Editor Sophie Harper moderating these sessions, they find out more about the hot topics in the industry from some of their favourite designers. In this issue, you can find more about the importance of sensory design in the guest bathroom and the direct impact it has on wellbeing.
The panel met online to look through a presentation from Geberit on the Science Behind the Sensory Space before an open discussion took place to brainstorm ideas on what sensory design looked like in the guest bathroom...
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“In the last year or two we have really started noticing that not only are we driving the agenda but that our clients are driving the agenda as well, which is really refreshing and exciting. We have three projects on our drawing board where either the client has brought it up or we’ve brought it to the table and the client has bought into it, and that’s to design with a biophilic approach. We’ve noticed that the luxury segment of the market is more perceptive to it as budgets are greater and you get to spend more time thinking about the experiential aspect of guest arrival and the use of the room, but what’s really important I think now is to bring that into the more limited service and budget market and make sure that biophilia and sensory design is something that we think of at all levels – because it should be for all of us and not just for a certain segment of the market. That’s an agenda I’m driving now – to try and bring elements of sensory design to all our projects if we can. Using biophilia does create a calming and restorative environment, in architecture it’s used in commercial spaces where it can help improve people’s productivity, which works in hotel meeting spaces, and for the leisure segment you want people to feel reenergised and renewed after their stay.” - Una Barac, Founder and Executive Director, Atellior
