Nine earthen villas
Phase I is envisioned around nine principal earthen villas — with an owner's residence and shared facilities in addition. Materials, plans and stewardship are being formed with local artisans, ecologists and architects.
The Gardens · Phase I in Development
The Living Laboratory of the Institute
The Elysian Gardens are being formed in the Serra da Estrela as the Institute's living laboratory — a place where framework becomes soil, stone, water, food, silence, hospitality and shared time. What can be described with certainty is described here; what is still being designed is named as such.
Phase I canon
What is being built.
Regenerative land
Water, soil, biodiversity, forest, orchards, gardens and cultivated silence are treated as the primary infrastructure — not as backdrop.
A home for the framework
The Gardens will host formations, quiet stays and studied convocations grounded in the Institute's principles and practical curriculum.
Relation to the Institute
Two doors, one work.
The Institute is the framework, publications and formation. The Gardens are the living setting in which the framework can be practised, tested, refined and shared. Neither is a decorative wing of the other; each protects and completes the other.
"Aldeia Nova do Cabo, Serra da Estrela — a real place, being formed with care over time."
Hospitality
Not a resort. Not a wellness venue.
Future hospitality at the Gardens will be structured around formation, quiet, seasonal rhythm and continuity — not luxury signalling, not spa language and not interchangeable retreat modalities. Detailed information, terms and openings will be published on the Gardens site as each is ready.