Health-Centric Homes, for a Price

By Robin Finn

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you: an empathic multimillion-dollar home that passively treats the occupant’s body like a temple. The second coming of sustainable real estate, it will fuse green technology with nourishing all-about-me amenities and direct them indoors. Homebodies, take note: the residence is designed to make the people it shelters healthier.

“The simplest way to understand what this home is capable of doing is to think of it like a 24-hour carwash that works on the human body,” said Paul D. Scialla, a co-founder and the managing partner of Delos, the Manhattan real estate firm.

The green building will contain the purest air and water and the most intense soundproofing: there is a buildingwide water purification system; filters will screen out air pollutants, allergens and toxins; and a circadian lighting system will stream energizing light in the morning and melatonin-enhancing light in the evening. Then there’s the posture-supportive flooring system and the WELL Shield coating, which destroys bacteria in the kitchen and bathrooms.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/realestate/health-centric-homes-for-a-price.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=realestate

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