A home,
as a longevity instrument.

MAVI works at the intersection of architecture, interior design, and human biology to design spaces that actively support health and extend healthspan.

We spend more than ninety percent of our lives indoors. The places we live, sleep, work, and recover are first-order determinants of health, yet almost no homes are designed with biological outcomes in mind.

MAVI translates peer-reviewed longevity science into actionable architectural specifications. Ten interconnected domains. One hundred and twenty-nine measurable factors. Every recommendation cited.

The thesis

Health is built
before willpower arrives.

Hover a card to read the claim. Every panel of the home is a longevity instrument the moment it is specified.

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Ninety percent indoors

The places you live and sleep are first-order determinants of health. Most homes are designed for everything except the body that lives in them.

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Ten interconnected domains

Air, water, light, sound, temperature, materials, microbiology, technology, mind, habits. We model the home as a single organism, not a list of finishes.

A wet moss wall, droplets caught at the tip of each frond

One hundred and twenty-nine factors

Every domain decomposes into measurable signals. Each signal is graded against published thresholds, weighted by exposure, and translated into specification.

An ivory linen curtain mid-billow through an open Crittall window

Every recommendation cited

WHO, WELL, peer-reviewed sleep, circadian, and indoor-environment literature. No anecdotes, no biohacker folklore. The Diagnostic ships with sources.

The places you live and sleep are first-order determinants of health. Most homes are designed for everything except the body that lives in them.

Air, water, light, sound, temperature, materials, microbiology, technology, mind, habits. We model the home as a single organism, not a list of finishes.

Every domain decomposes into measurable signals. Each signal is graded against published thresholds, weighted by exposure, and translated into specification.

WHO, WELL, peer-reviewed sleep, circadian, and indoor-environment literature. No anecdotes, no biohacker folklore. The Diagnostic ships with sources.

Kas Bordier, founder of MAVI
Kas Bordier Founder, MAVI World · Switzerland
  • Switzerland
  • Founded 2026

MAVI was founded by Kas Bordier on a single premise: your health is shaped long before willpower gets involved.

A Geneva-based principal at the intersection of UHNW residential, hospitality, and longevity medicine. Kas works to make the invisible influences of a home, light, air, sound, materials, temperature, visible, measurable, and deliberately designed, so the spaces we live in support human vitality instead of quietly draining it.

Her advisory and partnership work, listed below, share a single throughline: biology over trends, precision and softness, environment as the foundational layer of health.

MAVI is the architectural expression of that thesis, ten interconnected domains, one hundred and twenty-nine measurable factors, applied to the place a person spends the largest, quietest part of their life.

Homes are lived systems. They should evolve with the people inside them. Precision and softness coexist. The goal is never optimisation for its own sake. It's creating spaces where you can be fully human.

Kas Bordier

Kas Bordier Founder, MAVI World · Switzerland

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Short videos and field notes from current MAVI projects, the science, the specifications, the rooms.

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90% of life spent indoors
129 measurable factors
10 longevity domains
200+ peer-reviewed citations

Six principles of longevity architecture

Longevity is engineered.
Not improvised.

Six principles guide every project, from a Geneva apartment to a sixty-five-residence development on the Côte d'Azur.

From small to large scale
01

From small to large scale

Any size, any type, any price point. The framework applies across renovations, new builds, and community-wide developments, accessible regardless of budget or scope.

From intentional to multidimensional
02

From intentional to multidimensional

Start at planning. Embrace holistic design. Health considerations guide design from inception, physical, mental, social, and environmental wellness, tailored to the people who will live there.

From "do no harm" to optimising wellness
03

From "do no harm" to optimising wellness

Beyond safety to active enhancement. Rather than meeting minimum building codes, longevity architecture actively promotes positive health outcomes with measurable improvements in occupant wellbeing.

From passive to active wellness
04

From passive to active wellness

Environmental factors plus behaviour encouragement. Designs combine passive infrastructure, clean air, lighting, calm acoustics, with active elements that invite stair use, time outdoors, and movement through the day.

From infrastructure to operations
05

From infrastructure to operations

Embedded in design, activated through programming. Health features are built into materials and systems, then activated through ongoing community programming and engagement.

From "me" to "we"
06

From "me" to "we"

Individual wellness connected to community health. Projects prioritise shared spaces benefiting occupants and surrounding neighbourhoods, blurring private-public boundaries with intent.

The MAVI thesis

Five domains. One organism.

The mark, alive.

Five drops, in the constellation that names us. Each one a domain your biology never stops listening to. Watch them move, and you watch the home becoming itself.

A single circle.

No domain leads. No domain follows. The cleanest air is undone by a noisy room. The brightest daylight is undone by the wrong materials. The home is one ring, or it is none.

Five named, five measured.

  • AirCognitive infrastructure.
  • WaterCellular renewal.
  • MaterialsChemical integrity.
  • LightCircadian architecture.
  • Toxin-freeBody-side defence.

Free, but never alone.

The drops scatter, but they remain in conversation. The home is a single organism, calibrated to the body that lives in it.

AirWaterMaterialsLightToxin-free

Brand beliefs

Five frames
that hold the work.

  1. Space

    The space you're in becomes who you are.

    Design your environment like your life depends on it, because it does.

  2. Stillness

    Stillness reveals what speed hides.

    Noise distracts. Silence shows you the truth.

  3. Systems

    Systems are freedom.

    If it's built right, it liberates you.

  4. Frequency

    Design follows frequency. Always.

    A brand is how people feel in your presence. The rest is decoration.

  5. Evolution

    If you're not evolving, you're dying.

    Growth is the baseline.

Why the circle?

The circle is the symbol of truth, wholeness, and return.

It shows up in galaxies. Shells. Flowers. Ancient blueprints. The one form that needs no beginning, or end. A frequency that repeats through life, death, rebirth, and back again.

It reminds you that presence is circular: always returning, always evolving, always complete.

Ten domains.
One hundred and twenty-nine factors.

The MAVI 129™ framework is the operational language of longevity architecture. Every domain operationalised. Every factor measurable. Every recommendation cited.

  1. Air and Ventilation Cognitive infrastructure
  2. Water Cellular renewal
  3. Light Circadian architecture
  4. Thermal and Humidity Balance Restorative comfort
  5. Sound and Acoustics Auditory sanctuary
  6. EMF and Electrical Health Electrical environment
  7. Materials and Finishes Chemical integrity
  8. Nature and Wellbeing Immune harmony
  9. Tech and Health Device interface
  10. Lifestyle and Behavior Daily rhythm
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