Question 1

What is longevity architecture?

Accepted Answer

Longevity architecture is a design discipline that treats your home as long-term health infrastructure. It applies evidence-based science to how light, air, sound, temperature, materials, and electromagnetic exposure affect sleep, stress, cognition, and biological aging. Rather than optimizing for aesthetics alone, longevity architecture engineers the invisible environmental inputs that shape your nervous system, your behaviour, and your long-term health outcomes.

Question 2

How is longevity architecture different from wellness design?

Accepted Answer

Most wellness design focuses on visible features such as natural materials, plants, or dedicated wellness rooms. Longevity architecture goes deeper, engineering the invisible layers that have the greatest biological impact: circadian lighting calibrated to your latitude, air exchange rates that reduce inflammatory load, acoustic isolation that protects deep sleep, and material selections based on off-gassing profiles and endocrine disruption data.

Question 3

Who is Kas Bordier?

Accepted Answer

Kas Bordier is the pioneer of longevity architecture. She is Co-founder of MAVI (the longevity layer to real estate), Board Member of XPRIZE Healthspan (a $101 million competition to revolutionize how we approach aging), and Partner at Jefferies London. She works with private clients and developers worldwide to design homes that actively support longer, healthier lives.

Question 4

Where does Kas Bordier work?

Accepted Answer

Kas Bordier works with clients worldwide, with active projects in London, Geneva, New York, and Los Angeles. Remote consultations and project oversight are available for international clients. She is currently accepting projects for Autumn 2026.

Question 5

What does the MAVI 129 framework measure?

Accepted Answer

The MAVI 129 framework is a data-driven system that evaluates homes across 129 data points spanning ten domains of living: Air Quality, Water Quality, Light Design, Acoustic Environment, Thermal Comfort, Material Health, EMF Environment, Biophilic Integration, Movement Design, and Recovery Architecture. Each domain is scored and optimized based on peer-reviewed research.

Resources

Longevity Home Construction Checklist

Materials Red List