SoulGround Studio

SoulGround Studio is an interdisciplinary collective that redefines architecture as an expression of visionary identity—creating presence that is more than shelter: a reflection of the inner journey.
Every project we create is a retreat in essence, what we call SoulGround Residence—offering dignity, rest, and renewal to those who live, work, or engage within it.

A SoulGround Residence is not limited to the idea of a home.
It is any space—permanent or temporary—where presence becomes alive again.
A library, a retreat, a garden, an atelier, or even a passageway can be a residence if it allows us to dwell, to pause, to reconnect.

It is a place of belonging, not by ownership but by resonance.
A place that holds us for a moment, restores our attention, and reminds us what it means to be human.

Every SoulGround Residence is an invitation —
to inhabit life more consciously,
to find stillness within movement,
to make architecture a living experience.

With SoulGround Studio, we believe in total art that grows through dialogue—between disciplines, cultures, and human stories.
We choose to work as a collective of collaboration, where architecture, landscape, and art meet to create spaces that embody the harmony between human spirit and place.
Through this collective, we form ad hoc teams for each project—bringing together the right minds, skills, and visions to shape every SoulGround Residence as a unique work of total art.

Our designs are shaped by clarity, purpose, and dialogue with the land and its people.
Rooted in sustainability and justice, we create spaces that reflect who you are becoming—and give form to a new kind of presence: one that contributes, renews, and inspires.

At SoulGround Studio, we believe the most remarkable spaces are living portraits of their owners—shaped by deep personal vision rather than by trends or luxury. Artists, entrepreneurs, and leaders are often those who dare to create spaces, often their own homes, that truly express who they are and what they stand for.

We take it as our mission to inspire this tradition: helping you as a client shape your living space as a personal masterpiece, moving beyond convention, and using architecture, landscape, and total art as a canvas for your unique story.

We support you in shaping spaces that embody your inner clarity—radiating your identity, symbolizing your becoming, and offering something meaningful in return to the community.

Our teams of top professionals work to create your SoulGround Residence:
a sanctuary where architecture and landscape are seamlessly united into one living, breathing expression of who you are becoming as a personality, company, or organization.

At the heart of every project lies visionary power—the inner clarity that shapes our clients’ path, identity, and lasting impact. It is the power that lies in the constructive vision we have about our life projects and that has a positive impact on others.

Rooted in sustainability, based on principles of organic architecture, and brought to life by world-renowned and promising designers, each SoulGround Residence is a radiant place to live, to retreat, and—when opened to others—to inspire.

Each project unfolds in three carefully guided phases:

1. It begins with deep observation and immersion: our vision analysts, trained in the social sciences, map your visionary power through conversation, presence, and contextual study.
   This unique team forms the Visionary People Mentoring section of SoulGround Studio—dedicated to uncovering your inner forces that will lead to the creation of a meaningful space.

2. A co-creative team of architects, interior designers, landscape designers, artists, and curators then translates this vision into the architectural and spatial language of your SoulGround Residence. We work as a collective, forming ad hoc teams. Our teams are drawn from a global circle of professionals who place sustainability and justice at the heart of their work, integrating ecology, culture, and soul.

3. Finally, our communication experts shape the way your space is revealed—selectively or publicly—as an authentic, artistic expression of your personal truth and legacy.

Welcome to SoulGround studio —

where uncovering inner force and architecture begin their dialogue.

VISIONARY SPACES · YOUR VOICE

Your visionary power is not a distant ideal. At SoulGround Studio, we walk with those who know that true leadership is not only spoken — it is built, lived, and shared. That is why, in our philosophy, SoulGround Residences are never just for private comfort. They are intimate retreats that also radiate into communities, creating connection, dialogue, and renewal. In this way, they become shared sanctuaries—a common voice.

Your visionary power is a living current. It shapes your choices, your path, and your becoming. We translate that current into an architectural voice. We design exclusive spaces that serve as sanctuaries—where your inner truth finds form, and your unfolding vision is held, reflected, and made real.

At SoulGround Studio, we don’t begin with walls—we begin with what lives within our clients: their personality, their company, and their organization. Their visionary power. Their truth. Their direction. From there, we create spaces that mirror their deepest becoming — retreats where every detail supports the life they are meant to live.

Some spaces shelter you. Ours reveal you. Born from your inner truth and shaped by your visionary power, a SoulGround space becomes a visible expression of who you are—and who you are called to become.

FROM COLLECTIVE TO TEAMWORK—AN INVITATION TO TOTAL ART

No two life programs are the same.
That is why, within our collective, each project is developed through ad hoc, multidisciplinary teams, carefully composed according to the specific visionary power of you as a client.
Through this collaborative way of working, every SoulGround Residence becomes a living expression of your inner vision—a unique work of total art shaped by shared creativity.

Your team may include architects, landscape designers, interior designers, experts in the search for meaning, cultural historians, artists, or symbolic craftsmen—depending on the needs of your life program or of one of your organization, institution, or company. We curate and guide this team, ensuring that your SoulGround Residence fully expresses the depth and richness of your calling.
This way of collaboration grows from our deeper vision: at Visionary People, we see architecture as part of a living total art—a mother form that gathers all other arts around her, giving rhythm and meaning to the way we live.
Every line, material, and light becomes part of one soul-shaped composition.

From this vision, we look both inward and outward.
This vision stems from SoulGround Residence founder Thierry Limpens, who lives and works in Brussels—the city of Victor Horta, father of modernism, who mastered the art of total creation.

It is here, in Brussels, that Horta’s work still speaks to us—a reminder of how deeply architecture can breathe with the rhythms of life.
The stairway of the Hôtel Tassel (see photo)—one of Horta’s most celebrated works (1892–1893)—embodies this spirit. Often considered the first true Art Nouveau building in architectural history, it unites structure, decoration, furniture, and light into one flowing, organic composition—the perfect expression of his “total art” philosophy.

In every curve and detail of the Hôtel Tassel stairway, Horta translated the language of nature into architecture. The iron railings twist like growing vines, the mosaics ripple like flowing water, and light pours through stained glass as if filtered through leaves.
For Horta, nature was not a motif but a principle of life—an organic rhythm binding structure and ornament, making the house feel alive.

Yet our collective vision extends across the globe—reaching southward to the painted mud houses of Africa, where hands shape walls with patterns that continue to inspire both traditional and modern fashion design.

To give one example, in 1967, Yves Saint Laurent drew inspiration from African cultures in his “Bambara” collection.
Among other features, he fused the collar form with fabrics symbolic of Malian tradition—straw.
Once used to roof houses, straw carried the memory of shelter and belonging.
During colonial times, it was misread as a sign of “primitive” Africa, yet in truth, it holds the essence of architecture itself: protection, structure, and ritual.
In our vision, such materials regain their dignity.
We see in them the poetry of cultural dignity—a language of making that bridges body, house, and earth, renewing the dialogue between fashion and architecture.

And further still, eastward, we think of the audacious engagement of Banksy—the anonymous artist who paints on the walls of Bethlehem, calling for peace in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict—an act of creation that defies walls and restores meaning to them.

Many architects have shared this dream of total art.
Frank Lloyd Wright even designed clothes for his clients to match the houses he created for them—garments that extended the spirit of their living spaces.
Zaha Hadid, too, blurred the boundaries between architecture and fashion, designing shoes, handbags, and jewels, and collaborating with Chanel on a pavilion whose flowing form echoed the language of Chanel’s design.

Between these worlds—the crafted and the visionary, the visible and the silent—total art seeks a language where art and life meet again.

At SoulGround Studio, we follow that same direction.
We create art that listens to your inner vision and translates it into form.
We call this our Collective Art Vision—a living dialogue between spirit and place, expressed through SoulGround Residences that embody the harmony of total art.

OUR PROCESS TO YOUR JOURNEY

From the harmony of total art, we move to the space where creation begins—the personal dialogue with our clients.
We listen—to your inner truth, your longings, and your direction.
From that, we craft your SoulGround Residence that emerges as a living expression
of your visionary power and the person you are becoming.

1️⃣ Visionary Power Mapping
We guide you through deep mentoring, narrative exploration, and life-program analysis—a process we call Visionary People Mentoring.
This phase is supervised by expert analysts in the social sciences. The Visionary Power Blog offers insight into how this mapping can unfold in practice.

2️⃣ Design Curation
We assemble a unique, multidisciplinary design team of architects and design artists who translate your visionary power into the form of your SoulGround Residence.

3️⃣ Realization & Community Activation
We accompany you through the building process and assist you in developing retreat formats, hospitality models, and community offerings aligned with your space’s unique mission.

THE STORY BEHIND VISIONARY PEOPLE MENTORING

SoulGround Studio is a project that has been in development over the past few years.
It grew from a deep question that has guided much of my life: how can the spaces we create become reflections of who we truly are?
I am Thierry Limpens, founder and director of the studio, with a broad background in the humanities and social sciences—particularly in social and cultural anthropology, political science, and religious studies.

Writer, thinker, rebel, man, father, husband, researcher, teacher, and activist—all with one constant: for three decades I have focused on understanding what moves people to do good for others.
This lifelong inquiry continues through my writings and reflections at House of Chances, where I explore how personal transformation and social vision intertwine.

With SoulGroundStudio, I take the step from the academic world of research, which has taken me on travels in different parts of the world, to that of mentoring.

I bring my background in social science research into the mentoring work of SoulGround Studio. As program director, I guide the vision and structure of our collective projects. As an analyst, I lead the first mentoring phase of some journeys myself, while others are carried out by fellow analysts. It is important to me to remain in the field, applying my skills as an analyst where each SoulGround journey begins.

As an academic researcher, I have been featured on Euronews, on national TV channels in Belgium, Ireland, and Sudan, and in international journals, and I have spoken at international conferences. More about me as a researcher can be found here (academic CV, achievements, and publications closed on 25-2-2022).

I’ve come to understand that truly visionary people are not only dreamers—they are builders. Builders of meaning. Builders of spaces. Builders of the visible world that supports an invisible journey.

At SoulGround Studio, I work with people who have cultivated their visionary power—people who have achieved something extraordinary in life, business, or culture—and are now ready to translate that vision into a space that reflects the legacy they wish to live and leave.

Art as the Language of Becoming

Visionary personalities, companies, and organizations carry something potent within—a clarity, a conviction, a message that has shaped their success. But often, the physical spaces they inhabit lag behind the evolution of their inner life.

That’s where SoulGround Studio comes in.

I believe art—especially when embodied through architecture and landscape—is the medium through which that inner life finds form. It creates a place of belonging for the future self.

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton

When we create a SoulGround Residence, we’re creating a new kind of artwork—one you can walk through, live in, and share. One that carries memory, spirit, rhythm, and purpose.

That same spirit flows into our reflections: in our blog, The ethical character of culture — choosing visionary presence, we share how we are inspired by spaces rooted in justice, peace, and dialogue — choosing not a silence that veils the horizon of peace.

CREATING A SPACE THAT REFLECTS YOUR Inner Mirror

A SoulGround Studio project does not begin with floor plans or façades. It begins with listening. Deeply.

Who are you now, at this stage in your life? What does your inner world need to thrive? What would it mean to create a space that honors the path behind you, supports your present, and gestures toward your legacy?

People are the inspiration and foundation of every space we shape. This is why human experience lies at the heart of all our designs. This perspective transforms the very way architecture is envisioned and brought to life.

“The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” — Gaston Bachelard

SoulGround Studio is about your dreams—the kind that bring peace not only in the mind but also in stone, air, and earth. These dreams are translated into spaces where architecture, interior design, and the landscape are conceived as one fluid whole, not separate disciplines. The space should not be “in” the landscape. The space is the landscape. Walls are shaped by light. Rooms extend into planted courtyards. Views open to meaningful features. Nature does not decorate — it grounds and gives life.

One powerful example of this is found in the homes architects design for themselves, which often reveal the purest expression of their own visionary power. They are not just shelters but declarations of becoming: spaces where the personal and the professional meet, and where a private truth is offered, quietly, to the wider world.

Like Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in the Arizona desert (see photo above)—not only the seat of his architectural legacy, but a pioneering experiment in sustainable and organic design. From the use of local stone and sand to the integration of low rooflines, breezeways, and water features, the compound harmonizes with the Sonoran Desert landscape rather than dominating it.

Wright’s Sun Trap House, part of this complex, exemplifies his approach to climate-responsive design: light is welcomed from above and reflected inward, while walls and openings follow natural flow patterns. This was not just a building. It was Wright’s evolving philosophy—that a home must emerge from the land, respond to the sun, and serve as a partner to nature.

Taliesin West served as Wright’s winter residence and studio from 1937 until the end of his life in 1959. Today, it continues to embody his living philosophy as the home of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation—an organization dedicated to preserving his legacy and advancing the principles of organic architecture. Recognized both as a National Historic Landmark and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Taliesin West is not just a preserved space—it remains an active environment for tours, dialogue, and visionary thinking.

From Vision to Form: The Journey We Offer

Taliesin West remains one of the clearest examples of what becomes possible when visionary power is given a place to live—architecture rooted in place, energy, and soul. The Inspirational Spaces Blog offers further examples that inspire the vision of SoulGround Residences.

With SoulGround Studio, we seek to redefine architecture in the spirit of those works that embody the visionary power of their creators. Yet our aim is to open this model to a wider public—offering spaces where visionary power becomes both personal sanctuary and shared presence. Therefore, to root space in visionary power, we do more than design—we mentor. Beginning with your vision, we translate it step by step into a SoulGround Residence: not only beautiful, but alive.

This translation of visionary power into form is the central work of our collective: architects, interior and landscape designers, art curators, artists, and analysts alike. Within our studio are world-class architects and landscape designers who work with symbolism, ecology, and soul. We collaborate with cultural curators, material specialists, and craftspeople who build with local intelligence. And we anchor every project in sustainability—environmental, emotional, and cultural.

What emerges is a living retreat where your inner life finds room to breathe, where your soul can unfold. A presence that quietly radiates who you are—and invites others to step into that light.

PHOTOS BELOW

Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, winter retreat of 20th-century architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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