Experienced
We will challenge you to think creatively about environmental strategy, development, and operations. Our intellectual rigor and depth of knowledge provide transformative solutions for our clients and the built environment.
Passionate
Terrapin’s passion and diverse knowledge are focused in the following areas:
- Environmental Strategies
- Biophilic Design
- Ecological Design “Phoebe”
- Bioinspired Innovation
Insightful
We push the boundaries of sustainable design practices by collaborating with leaders in diverse fields ranging from physiology to materials science. We make this pioneering research freely available to promote innovation in the built environment.
News
Find the latest thoughts and updates from the Terrapin team in the blog.
Looking Back to Go Forward
Some highlights for Terrapin from 2025 included speaking events like Designing Wellbeing in High Point NC, Living Future in Portland, Greenbuild LA, and the Furniture Today Leadership Conference. We taught as part of the University of Navara/Singapore National University International Week in Madrid, the Future of Libraries Exec Ed Class for Harvard GSD, and the […]
Leveling Up in Design – The Mind Body Space Global Symposium
Mind Body Space is no entry level exhibit of biophilic and regenerative design—it’s an intimate gathering of minds. Niels Hofstee and Michaël Vrijhof, the principals of Office for the New Earth (ONE), along with Nuria Muñoz Arce of Habitarmonia Academy & Ecosystem and others, were the co-organizers of the Mind Body Space Global Symposium in […]
Rediscovering a Legacy through the Lens of Biophilia
British Columbia (BC), Canada’s westernmost province, has a centuries-old tradition of wood construction by the First Nations of the region. Their round houses and planked long houses made great use of the giant western red cedar and the fine-grained yellow cedar. For BC’s largest city, Vancouver, timber exports were the basis of its original economy. […]
The Future of Library Design, A course teaser
If you think libraries are just musty repositories of old books, then you will need to think again. Libraries have become economic development centers, community gathering places, media production facilities and much more. This August, as part of the Executive Education Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Jeffrey Hoover, Director of Library […]