The Practice
A fine home is insured, maintained, and seldom assessed. Every material, fitting and furnishing is chosen with care, but not always with the health of the family in mind.
Nivara Prana looks at the home as a whole, at whether it brings stillness, comfort and wellbeing to the family it shelters.
Assess
A room-by-room survey of air, water, light, materials and connection to nature, and an audit of what the household uses daily.
Advise
A clear order of what matters most, what can wait, and why. Where there is no evidence of risk, the answer is simple. Do less.
Record
A register of what the home contains, and guidance the family keeps for every decision that follows.
The Standard
The work is read against recognised international references, including the WELL Building Standard™. Developed by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), WELL is an evidence-based framework for how buildings affect human health, from air, water and light to materials, sound and mind.
Around the world, leading organisations now use WELL to examine the buildings in which their people work. The same scrutiny is rarely applied to the homes those people return to each evening.
WELL is organised around ten concepts. Air, Water, Nourishment, Light, Movement, Thermal Comfort, Sound, Materials, Mind and Community.
A private residence calls for the ones closest to daily life. The air a family breathes, the water it drinks and bathes in, the light it lives by, the materials it lives among, the quiet it rests in, and its connection to nature.
Nivara Prana brings that same discipline home. The work draws on the knowledge behind WELL. It does not certify a residence, which is a separate process through IWBI.
A standard gives the work its measure. The family gives it its purpose.