Starting with the World Health Organization, distinctive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not just the absence of disease or infirmity. Another goal of this course is that you should ideally feel healthier at the end of the course, if only because you know what are the healthy foods with which you can tackle your next construction task.

My translation of the World Health Organization's definition into the world of materials would sound appropriate. Healthy materials are completely harmless. They actively contribute to well-being, improve the space and are not only non-toxic or less polluting. A definition by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche takes a bit of a different approach. He defined health as that health is the measure of illness that still allows me to pursue my essential activities.

I would almost say that this is more in line with our current construction reality. In many things, we build a degree of illness that still allows the buildings to be used accordingly. However, it differs significantly from the World Health Organization's definition. Accordingly, here too, the translation into materiality. As a yardstick, healthy materials only have so many negative effects on residents and the environment that they pose no immediate risk of illness.

Perhaps straight out of the box, that is a definition that would by no means be sufficient for me as an ideal image. This is also a goal that we can manage here in the future, not only try to use materials that pose no risk of illness, but ideally the building materials used can even actively contribute to maintaining health or even to recovery.