Vision
ABOUT
A space is never just a space.
It is a condition. A field. An invisible invitation to a particular quality of experience.
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Louis Kahn asked what a building wanted to be, not what the architect wanted to make. That question changed architecture. Because it implies that form is not invented. It is listened to. Every project begins in silence, in the careful observation of the land, the light, the purpose, and the people who will inhabit it.
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Krishnamurti said that to observe without the observer is the beginning of transformation. A space designed with this understanding does not impose. It opens. It creates the conditions for a human being to become, for a moment, simply present, free from the noise of thought, free from the weight of becoming.
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Eckhart Tolle speaks of the present moment as the only place where life actually happens. Architecture can serve that. Or obstruct it. A ceiling too low, a proportion too restless, a material too cold, these are not aesthetic failures. They are interruptions. They pull the inhabitant out of now and back into the mental noise of past and future.
Sadhguru describes vastu as a technology, not belief, not tradition for its own sake, but a precise understanding of how energy moves through space. How direction, proportion, and material either support or disturb the human system. The body knows. Long before the mind forms an opinion, the body has already responded to the space it entered.
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This is what I work with. Not style. Not trend. Not personal taste.
The fundamental question beneath every project is always the same: what quality of experience does this space need to make possible, and what must it be, at every level, to serve that?
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The choice of materials follows the same principle, coherence between intention and substance. Each material carries its own energetic signature. Timber, earth, clay, hemp, bamboo, chosen because they breathe, they age with grace, and they connect the inhabitant to the natural world rather than isolating them from it.
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This is not decoration.
This is architecture as medicine.
Story
I didn't choose this path. I was called to it.
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I trained as an architect at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, one of Europe's most rigorous engineering universities. I worked in Barcelona, then London, drawing masterplans and competing for commissions. From the outside, the path was clear.
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Then in 2009, something shifted. Friends were building in India, a school, housing in informal settlements. I went. And I stayed.
For nine years.
India gave me everything that architecture school couldn't. The overwhelming diversity of gods, materials, colors, and ways of living. The confrontation with poverty and beauty existing side by side. The understanding that spirituality is not separate from daily life, it is woven into every act, every space, every decision.
But more than what I observed, it was what I lived. Over fifteen years of deep contemplative practice, including extended silent retreats and direct transmission from a living spiritual teachers. Working through the body's energy systems year by year. Experiences that changed me at a fundamental level, teaching me what it means to die while still alive, and to return with clarity about what matters.
These were not detours from my architecture. They became my architecture.
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When I returned to Europe, one thing was clear: I could not design spaces without purpose. Not just functional purpose but with spiritual purpose. Because we spend our lives inside spaces. We sleep in them, practice in them, heal in them, gather in them. And every space has an energetic outcome, whether its designer knows it or not.
I choose to know it. And to design it with intention.
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Today, after 20 years and projects across 12 countries, from yoga shalas in Comporta to healing centers in Peru, eco-villages in Goa to community masterplans in Guatemala, I bring together architecture, sacred geometry, vastu, and numerology into a single practice with one purpose:
To create spaces that make people feel more alive.
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I work with clients who understand that a space is never neutral and who are ready to trust a process that goes beyond aesthetics into something more fundamental:
the quality of life lived inside.
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This path, architectural and spiritual, continues. Within my community, I carry the name Krishna Aryavrat.
CV
2022 — Yoga Shala Temple, Comporta, Portugal
2020 — Vessel Event Space, Ometepe, Nicaragua
2020 — Meme & Demian House, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
2020 — Jorejick Family House, Tanzania
2019 — Atitlan Lake House, Guatemala
2018 — Sobreirinho Retreat & Residence, Tomar, Portugal
2018 — Hamsa Tower, Pucallpa, Peru
2017 — Tree of Life, Pucallpa, Peru
2017 — Hamsa Healing Center, Pucallpa, Peru
2017 — Baraka, Palomino, Colombia
2017 — AAA, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 — Five, Maputo, Mozambique
2015 — Bougainvillea Patnem Zome, Goa, India
​2012–2016 — Khaama Kethna Eco Village, Goa, India
2011 — Turtle Lounge, Goa, India
2010 — Oasis Eco Resort, Goa, India
2010 — The Drop, Liminal Village, Portugal
2009 — Yerawda School, Pune, India
2008–2009 — Castle Hill Masterplan, Kent, UK
2009 — Northwich Cultural Centre, Cheshire, UK
2006 — Alella Twin Houses, El Maresme, Spain
2006 — Architecture Graduation, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
2006–2007 — Barber Renteria Arquitectes, Barcelona
2008–2009 — S333 Architecture + Urbanism, London