Plant-based materials come with complete spec sheets and almost no account of what it's like to live with them.
Habitat Atlas gathers the testimony of people who have — for years — and holds it where the field can find it.
Before booking a stranger's apartment, you read what past guests say — that's where you learn what the listing can't tell you.
Habitat Atlas brings that instinct to building materials: the resident's account, set beside the measurement rather than beneath it.
Fear of the unknown is what keeps the conventional default in place. Years of real occupancy — what endures, what needs care, what quietly works — give architects, builders, and homeowners the confidence to choose plant-based materials.
The same testimony that reassures a homeowner should inform the architect's detail and the policymaker's code.
Habitat Atlas turns one body of lived knowledge into evidence each of them can act on.
