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 — offering dignity, rest, and renewal to those who live, work, or engage within it.

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.

Our mission is to inspire this tradition: helping our clients shape their living spaces as personal masterpieces, moving beyond convention, and using architecture and landscape as a canvas for their unique story.

We support you in shaping spaces that embodies 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 Space:
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 designers, each SoulGround Space 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 artists, and curators then translates this vision into the architectural and spatial language of your SoulGround Space. 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 Spaces 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, your becoming. We translate that current into an architectural voice. We design exclusive spaces that serve as sanctuary — 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.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMWORK

No two life programs are the same.
That is why each project works with ad hoc multidisciplinary teams, carefully composed according to the specific visionary power of you as a client.

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 lead this team, ensuring that your SoulGround Space fully expresses the depth and richness of your calling.

OUR PROCESS TO YOUR JOURNEY

We listen—to your inner truth, your longings, and your direction.
From that, we craft your SoulGround Space 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. The Visionary Power Blog offers insight into how this mapping can unfold in practice.

2️⃣ Design Curation
We assemble a unique multidisciplinary design team who translate your visionary power into architecture, landscape, and interior design.

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.

I am Thierry Limpens, the founder and director of the project. I have a broad education in the humanities and social sciences, in particular in social and cultural anthropology, in political science, and in religious studies.

Writer, thinker, rebel, man, father, husband, researcher, teacher, and activist, all with one constant: for three decades I have focused on researching what motivates people to want to do good for others.

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 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 I come 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 Space, 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 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 of clients—offering spaces where visionary power becomes both personal sanctuary and shared presence. Thereforee, 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 Space: 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, 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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