Biophilia is people's innate desire to be in contact with nature and plants. Studies have shown that the sight of natural landscapes has a calming and stress-relieving effect on people. Now visitors and occupants of the Tides Renewal Centre can look into the lightwell from many different vantage points to enjoy the benefits of both daylight and nature.

This secret garden can be found on the north wall of an interior lightwell in the newly restored Flack Block. The wall was an unsightly concrete block wall, until a collaboration between Tides Renewal, Sharp & Diamond Landscape Architecture, living wall designers MUBI, and Penner & Associates, produced a lovely vertical garden, 377 sf/35 sm in size. The plants are native species such as wild ginger, woodland penstemon and fragrant fringecup and include delicious edible strawberries and huckleberries. The wall forms a tapestry of textures in infinite varieties of green. The MUBI system is a vegetated rainscreen, which features pre-grown modules interlaced with irrigation tubes.