SYDNEY - AussieJournal -- Sydney-based neuroarchitecture and biophilic design specialist Ozge Fettahlioglu has released Designing for Health and Wealth: Architecture As a Compounding Mechanism for Healthspan, Performance and Capital Value, a new book exploring how interior environments influence health, behaviour, guest experience and property value.

Fettahlioglu is founder of Cocoplum Design Studio, board member of Biophilic Cities Australia, lecturer at Western Sydney University and author of Designing for Health and Wealth. Her work sits across hospitality design, wellness real estate, luxury homes, school design, modular hospitality, FF&E and evidence-based interiors.

The book challenges the idea that design is mainly about aesthetics. It positions the built environment as a performance system that shapes stress, sleep, recovery, focus, emotional response, guest behaviour and long-term asset value.

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"Design is not just what people see," says Fettahlioglu. "It is what a space trains the body to do. Settle, focus, recover, stay longer, spend more, or leave faster."

Designing for Health and Wealth brings together neuroarchitecture, biophilic design, interior psychology and commercial design strategy. It translates research and real project experience into practical language for hotel owners, developers, high-value homeowners, educators and built-environment professionals.

For the hospitality sector, the book argues that hotel refurbishments should not begin with finishes. Fettahlioglu says operators need to first audit light, acoustics, air quality, spatial flow, sensory load, arrival sequence and guest behaviour before investing in visible upgrades.

"Many hotel rooms get new timber, new fabric and new lighting, but keep the same revenue problem," she says. "If the room does not support sleep, recovery and memory, the refurbishment is only surface-level."

Through Cocoplum Design Studio and Boxareno's manufacturing network, Fettahlioglu also works across custom furniture, joinery, procurement and modular hospitality delivery. This gives her a design-to-delivery perspective on how evidence-based interiors can reduce fragmentation between concept, manufacturing and installation.

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Fettahlioglu is available for expert commentary on neuroarchitecture, biophilic design, hospitality design, wellness real estate, hotel refurbishments, luxury home design, school design, interior psychology, evidence-based design, guest experience, ADR, RevPAR and asset value.

Book details: Designing for Health and Wealth by Ozge Fettahlioglu. Paperback ISBN 9781764417808. Hardcover ISBN 9781764417815. KDP paperback ISBN 9781764417822.

About Cocoplum Design Studio (https://cocoplum.com.au): Cocoplum Design Studio creates neuroarchitecture and biophilic interiors for hotels, homes, schools and developments, linking evidence-based design to guest experience, wellbeing and asset value.

Media contact: Ozge Fettahlioglu, Cocoplum Design Studio, info@cocoplum.com.au, cocoplum.com.au