I worked under Shigeru Ban building disaster relief architecture in Japan. For people who had lost everything. The question was always: how can a building heal? That question never left me.

My background is in disaster relief architecture — in truly designing environments to heal the nervous systems of those having gone through acute trauma — asking how can the build environment physically and psychologically heal? How can we reconnect people to the same land and nature that betrayed them.

This is why I take the nervous system seriously, why I don't do template homes, why choosing natural, non-toxic materials matter.

We are facing a slow disaster of disconnection and anxiety in our society. I’m designing for change at the most important focal point of our nervous systems and the smallest building block of family center. The home. 

Environments are not passive backdrops — they are instructions the nervous system is constantly reading. I offer to write better instructions.