Let’s imagine – metropolitan city, corporate setting, meetings followed by conference calls followed by more meetings, interviewing nannies over the phone in between and a lunch at your desk. How do you keep your sanity in such a rhythm? If you are religious, you would go to a closest church, mosque or any other house of God. What if you are not religious but you need a quiet place to get away for 20 minutes, to sit still and to connect with yourself?

This place was designed as a public space which will be used as a breather. Since the target group are non-religious people who  believe that there is a scientific explanation to everything, we went back to basic principles of physics for inspiration. We used atoms forming molecules and compound molecules as a shape for window openings and colors of energy vibrations for colors of window glass.

We placed our Breath-zone  in the financial district of New York city but the idea could be transplanted to any other metropolitan city.

Design team: Nilufar Pulatova, Jacqueline Tamm (www.homesweethomebyj.com and Leslie Sturm