Jardín de los Sueños
Every space, material, and detail is chosen through one lens: does this support regeneration and wellbeing?
"Does this support regeneration and wellbeing?"
Eight Principles
01 / 08
Raw materials, refined execution
The cool brush of adobe against your palm. The faint scent of palm thatch after rain. A floor that holds the warmth of afternoon sun long into evening. This is design that speaks through touch, through breath, through the oldest parts of you. Not luxury as distance from the earth—luxury as return to it.
The question we're holding
How do we create spaces that feel both ancient and elevated—where the body recognizes safety before the mind catches up?
Where this is leading us
We're exploring palo de arco beams joined without nails. Walls that breathe with the desert. The mineral palette of sand and rust and sage. Learning as we build.
02 / 08
Spaces that hold initiation
The weight of a threshold stone beneath your feet. The pause before crossing. The way a room can hold you differently when you've been invited to arrive. Modern life has no edges—we drift from space to space without ever landing. The nervous system stays vigilant, waiting for a signal that never comes: you're here now. You can stop.
The question we're holding
How do we design for transition? For the moments between—where leaving becomes arriving, where doing becomes being?
Where this is leading us
We're exploring entrance sequences that slow the body. Fire ceremonies using volcanic stone. The architecture of permission—spaces that say "you've crossed over."
03 / 08
Where inside becomes outside
A bird lands three feet from your treatment table. The breeze carries jasmine through screens you forgot were there. You can't quite say where the room ends and the garden begins—and your body stops trying to track the difference. It just breathes.
The question we're holding
What happens when architecture stops being shelter and becomes membrane? When walls learn to listen to wind?
Where this is leading us
We're exploring sliding screens of local hardwood and woven carrizo. Treatment rooms that open completely to garden. The feeling of protection without separation.
04 / 08
Shadow and sun and stars choreographed
The way morning light finds your pillow before your alarm does. Shadow patterns moving across a wall like slow breath. Golden hour arriving in the same corner every evening, a reunion you start to anticipate. And then—night. Actual night. The kind where you can see the Milky Way, where moonlight is enough to walk by, where darkness isn't something to fill but something to receive. We've forgotten that stars were our first ceiling.
The question we're holding
How do we design with light and darkness as materials? Let the sun teach time, and let night return to us what screens have stolen?
Where this is leading us
We're exploring suites oriented to different light—ocean sunrise, mountain sunset, garden-dappled. Screens that paint moving shadows. Lighting that dims with the sun and disappears completely when you want it to. Bedrooms that open to stars.
05 / 08
Nourishment woven into every path
Rosemary brushing your ankle on the way to breakfast. Citrus you watched ripen now arriving at your table. The quiet recognition that this place feeds itself—and you're part of the cycle. Abundance stops being a concept and becomes something touching your skin.
The question we're holding
What if you couldn't walk anywhere on the property without passing something alive, growing, edible? What does that do to the nervous system over three days?
Where this is leading us
We're exploring pathways lined with herbs and fruit. Gardens you walk through, not past. The relationship between tending and eating, between soil and sustenance.
06 / 08
Every object earns its place
You sleep deeper than you have in months and can't explain why. Maybe it's the weight of the blanket—just heavy enough. Maybe it's the walls holding cool air through the night. Maybe it's the absence of everything that doesn't serve rest. The quiet isn't empty. It's spacious.
The question we're holding
What would a room feel like if nothing in it demanded attention—but everything in it gave something back?
Where this is leading us
We're exploring the discipline of only. Only what serves. Only what soothes. Only what the body actually needs to repair. Nothing decorates—everything works.
07 / 08
Discovery within the coherence
A staircase you didn't notice leads somewhere you didn't expect. A curved wall reveals a courtyard the map didn't show. You find yourself smiling—not at a view, but at the discovery of it. The nervous system wakes up differently when there's something to find.
The question we're holding
How do we design for wonder without chaos? For novelty that feels like a gift, not a demand?
Where this is leading us
We're exploring hidden staircases to view decks. Windows placed to frame what you didn't know was there. The art of revealing slowly.
08 / 08
Designed for eight, never more
You know everyone's name by dinner. By the second morning, you know their story. There's no crowd to disappear into, no anonymity to hide behind. The nervous system stops scanning for threat because it can actually track everyone in the room. Something softens. Connection stops being work.
The question we're holding
What is the architecture of being seen? How does scale shape intimacy, and intimacy shape healing?
Where this is leading us
We're exploring the constraint of eight—in dining, in sauna, in ceremony. Spaces sized for a group small enough that no one becomes invisible.
Twelve Spaces
These principles come alive across twelve interconnected spaces—each one a different answer to "does this support regeneration and wellbeing?"
Where sanctuary meets village
Open to guests and local community. Circular tables for eight. Apothecary bar serving garden-sourced adaptogens.
ExploreWhere creators come to dream
Three A-frames for 30-day residencies. Palm thatch becomes roof and walls in one continuous envelope.
ExploreThe model that travels
15×15 two-story prototype. Replicable across future Project ∞ properties. Affordable meets luxurious.
ExploreThe threshold between worlds
Curated wellness products, garden goods, local artisan work. Retail as curation.
ExplorePreparing to let go
Palm tree through both floors. Private changing, outdoor showers, rest areas. Downshift before treatment.
ExploreWhere fire meets water
Wood-fired volcanic stone. Cold plunge contrast. Ancestral water ceremonies. No electricity.
ExploreEight rooms for eight guests
Each unique, unified by 18-inch adobe. Private courtyards. Your best night's sleep.
ExploreHands in the same earth
Four-person intimate studio. Property-sourced clay. Natural kiln. Local ceramist guidance.
ExploreWhere life begins
Seedling nursery. Small flock for eggs. Guests collect breakfast. Teaching reciprocity.
ExploreWhere everything returns
Rescue donkeys. Compost processing. Biochar production. The closed loop made visible.
ExploreThe secret above
Hidden stairs reveal views of gardens, pool, and Pacific. A discovery earned through presence.
ExploreMedicine grown here
Medicinal herb spirals. Tincture-making station. Connection between what we grow and what heals us.
ExploreThese spaces exist at Jardín de los Sueños. Book a stay, become a steward, or bring this methodology to your own sanctuary.