Longevity architecture
for the body that lives.

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Financial Times Fast Company Superhuman Home Journal South African Décor & Design

Your home should
take care of you too.

Most homes are built for how they look. MAVI homes are built for how they make you feel, sleep, and recover.

Where to next?

The ten pillars

We spend more than ninety percent of our lives indoors. Yet most homes are designed for everything except the body that lives in them. MAVI changes that, with peer-reviewed science, ten longevity domains, and every claim cited.

Kas Bordier on stage at the Super Human summit in Stockholm

MAVI News June 2026

The Architecture of Longevity

Kas took the stage in Stockholm alongside David Sinclair, Aubrey de Grey and the frontier of longevity science. What the Super Human summit taught us about being superhuman.

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What is longevity architecture?
Experience it in a live home.

A short walkthrough of a real MAVI home. Step from room to room. See what your body sees, and what it's responding to.

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A collaboration

House & Home · 5 May 2026

Kas Bordier and Kelly Hoppen CBE, photographed for the Financial Times House & Home, May 2026
Photographed for the Financial Times by Stew Bryden

Financial Times House & Home · 5 May 2026

Does your home need a doctor?

The Financial Times profiles the emerging discipline of longevity architecture, with Kas Bordier, Kelly Hoppen CBE, Shouka Amirsolimani and Dr Tamsin Lewis. Methodology, pricing, and the live projects across London, Switzerland, and the Pacific Palisades.

Longevity architecture should become a standard for the industry, with people looking at the health rating of the space the same way as the energy rating. Kas Bordier, founder, MAVI
Read the article in the Financial TimesDiscover Longevity · the scroll-bound walkthrough

Inside MAVI Longevity

Most luxury homes look healthy.
They are not.

Sealed windows. LED that destroys melatonin. Materials that off-gas for years. Ventilation designed by accountants. MAVI residences are different. Not because they are more expensive. Because they are more intelligent.

  1. 129
    Measurable health factorsParticulate matter, light spectrum, acoustic reverberation, off-gassing chemistry.
  2. 10
    Interconnected domainsAir, water, light, sound, temperature, materials, microbiology, technology, mind, habits.
  3. 90%
    Of life lived indoorsYet most residences have never been measured for the body inside them.
  4. 60%
    Reduction in inflammatory loadLongevity that moves the needle, not expensive noise.
  5. 10+
    Years of researchAcross longevity science, behavioural design, environmental biology, and building science.

Inside a MAVI Longevity home

Your home should take care of you too.

Most homes are built for how they look. MAVI Longevity residences are built for how they make you feel, sleep, recover, and think. Longevity architecture, lived.

A curved travertine Engadin bedroom at first light, single arched window onto Alpine fog

Wake rested. Sleep deeper.

Better nights make better days. When air, light, and rhythm work together, the body finds its natural cadence. You fall asleep faster, wake calmer, and carry that steadiness into the morning.

A carved travertine soaking tub on a curved plaster floor, lake fog beyond

Let your home recharge you.

Imagine if every shower, breath, and beam of light helped you refuel. Recovery is not what happens after the gym, it is what your home supports every minute you are in it.

A curved plaster snug wrapping a low fireplace, warm Grisons winter light

Feel grounded as soon as you arrive.

Calm is the new luxury. You sense it before you even notice it. The way a MAVI home absorbs noise, balances temperature, and gives the nervous system permission to relax.

A curved oak desk under an arched clerestory window, brushed brass lamp

Think clearer. Live lighter.

When the surroundings stop fighting biology, clarity follows. Balanced light and oxygen steady attention; good design becomes the silent productivity instrument.

Better nights make better days. When air, light, and rhythm work together, the body finds its natural cadence. You fall asleep faster, wake calmer, and carry that steadiness into the morning.

Imagine if every shower, breath, and beam of light helped you refuel. Recovery is not what happens after the gym, it is what your home supports every minute you are in it.

Calm is the new luxury. You sense it before you even notice it. The way a MAVI home absorbs noise, balances temperature, and gives the nervous system permission to relax.

When the surroundings stop fighting biology, clarity follows. Balanced light and oxygen steady attention; good design becomes the silent productivity instrument.

Air Water Materials Light Toxin-free

The mark

Five domains. One organism.

Each dot of the MAVI mark stands for one of the five surfaces every residence is graded against. The body never reads them in isolation, and neither do we.

Ten domains.
One hundred and twenty-nine factors.

Every domain is operationalised. Every factor is measurable. Every recommendation is sourced from peer-reviewed research and translated into actionable architectural specifications.

What is Longevity Architecture?
  1. Air & Ventilation

    Air & Ventilation

    Cognitive infrastructure.

  2. Water & Purity

    Water & Purity

    Cellular renewal.

  3. Light & Circadian Health

    Light & Circadian Health

    Circadian architecture.

  4. Thermal & Humidity Balance

    Thermal & Humidity Balance

    Restorative comfort.

  5. Sound & Acoustics

    Sound & Acoustics

    Auditory sanctuary.

  6. EMF & Electrical Health

    EMF & Electrical Health

    Electrical environment.

  7. Materials & Finishes

    Materials & Finishes

    Chemical integrity.

  8. Nature & Wellbeing

    Nature & Wellbeing

    Immune harmony.

  9. Tech & Health

    Tech & Health

    Device interface.

  10. Lifestyle & Behaviour

    Lifestyle & Behaviour

    Daily rhythm.

A different premise

Design,
not discipline.

Most health advice makes you more stressed. Optimise this. Track that. Do not forget to breathe correctly. MAVI takes the opposite approach. We do not add to your to-do list. We build health into the walls.

Your home should

  • Clean the air while you sleep.
  • Regulate your circadian rhythm without an app.
  • Reduce inflammation without a supplement.
  • Calm the nervous system without trying.

Ingest

29 sources in the register

Between 8 and 12 are read for any one address, depending on what your country publishes.

Environmental registers

Open-Meteo air & climate · IQAir stations · NASA POWER daylight · Falchi & VIIRS night-sky atlases · OpenCelliD base stations · OpenStreetMap green space · DWI, EWG & SVGW national water postures · Swiss BAFU noise & BAG radon · UK Police street data

Your documents

Architectural drawings · Site photography · Material specs

Reason

MAVI 129 longevity-reasoning engine

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129

cited factors per Blueprint

  • 200+ peer-reviewed studies
  • Every value timestamped
  • Hosted in Zurich
  • Reviewed by a MAVI architect

From a city flat to the coast.

The framework travels to every kind of home. Every residence specified for the body that lives in it.

Kas Bordier, founder of MAVI

Founder

Kas Bordier

MAVI is a framework that translates two decades of longevity research into a measurable specification for the home. Ten domains, one hundred and twenty-nine factors, each one cited.

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