Zen Spaces
Design ServicesCalifornia, United States2-10 Employees
Zen Spaces is a small design-build interior firm based in Santa Barbara, California, offering design services focused on wellness in built environments. The firm develops spaces intended to support health and well-being by applying knowledge from psychology, neuroscience, aging, mindfulness, fitness, and health. It notes that traditional building design can negatively affect health and seeks to counteract that through its approach. The company also maintains a blog that shares information on designing for wellness. Elisa Garcia, AIA, founder of Zen Spaces, brings decades of experience across architecture, interior design, and construction management, and started the firm in 2004 as a small design-build practice, drawing on early work in her family's architectural and development firm and an interest in design inspired by nature.