{"id":2800,"date":"2019-08-20T20:30:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/location.ventures\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2019-08-20T21:27:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T21:27:21","slug":"villa-valencia-in-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/location.ventures\/news\/villa-valencia-in-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Valencia in Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"Villa Valencia<\/a> is featured in Forbes<\/em> in an article titled “Can Your Luxury Condo Keep You Healthy?” highlighting our collaboration and implementation of the world’s first home wellness intelligence system Darwin by DELOS.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nFrom the Forbes article:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n“In the past decade lots of new ideas have found their way into residential construction \u2014 aging-in-place, green initiatives, sustainability. It seems only natural, pun intended, for wellness to be part of the equation. Turns out that\u00a0wellness real estate<\/a>\u00a0makes up $134 billion of the of the $4.2 trillion global wellness economy. Homebuilders like\u00a0KB Homes<\/a>\u00a0signed on earlier this year to develop and sell wellness real estate. But other custom builders and developers, who may not have KB\u2019s volume of scale are seeing wellness as a great value proposition and differentiator.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nOne such developer taking the gamble is Rishi Kapoor, CEO of Miami-based\u00a0Location Ventures<\/a>, with Villa Valencia.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe project, which broke ground in Coral Gables earlier this year, will have 39 luxury condominium residences and feature the\u00a0Darwin\u00a0<\/a>system. \u201cEvery one of our residences will be controlled by smart home systems. Darwin can plug right into that and residents can, among other things, monitor air quality and lighting temperature,\u201d says Kapoor.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCreated by Delos, Darwin is both a \u201chardware and software platform,\u201d says company founder and CEO Paul Scialla. \u201cThe software is a whole algorithm that acts as a wellness brain for the home.\u201d The system checks air and water quality, thermal and acoustic comfort and circadian lighting. \u201cThe sensor is constantly reading everything.\u201d\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFor example, tap on \u201cair quality\u201d to learn about the level of volatile organic compounds (VOCs<\/a>) in your home. The levels will rise and fall as you come in from outdoors with nasty stuff on your shoes and clothing; if you\u2019re cooking; if you\u2019re using hair spray. The system will let you know if the particulate level is harmful. The same goes for what\u2019s in your water.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAs for lighting, you can set \u201cscenes\u201d to energize and awaken or to simulate dawn or to relax. You can set it to your circadian rhythms, the natural sleep cycles our long-ago ancestors used to follow. \u201cWe used to wake at sunrise and be active and energized during the day under a bright sky that triggered hormones for energy and mental acuity,\u201d Scialla says. \u201cWe slept in complete darkness. We breathed pristine air, drank pure water. This went on for the better part of human history. Now we spend almost 90 percent of our lives in a manufactured box where air quality tends to be two to five times worse than outdoor air.\u201d\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nRead More From The Article on Forbes Here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Villa Valencia is featured in Forbes in an article titled “Can Your Luxury Condo Keep You Healthy?” highlighting our collaboration and implementation of the world’s first home wellness intelligence system Darwin by DELOS.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/location.ventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/location.ventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/location.ventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/location.ventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/location.ventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/location.ventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/location.ventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/location.ventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/location.ventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/location.ventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}