Architecture of Presence

Interior of a 65m² Sovereign Sanctuary at Agaporia opening onto the Tuscan landscape through expanded glazing, with reclaimed chestnut surfaces and lime-plaster walls.

Built In Unison With The Land

The Sanctuaries will be built from straw, cork, hemp and lime. Every one of those materials is alive a season before it becomes a wall, and the carbon it drew out of the air stays in the wall as long as the wall stands. No chemistry anywhere you breathe.

Walls with weight breathe, and hold a room still. You will not notice them working. Only that you slept. Daylight will do the rest, drawing the body back into the hour of the day it is in, and there will be no screen in any Sanctuary.

Three rooms on this estate will earn nothing at all. Reading, a hearth, and being alone in company. Somewhere to put down what you have been carrying.