# @dwellmagazine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPEgzavEXlK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34939446-dwellmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-26T15:29:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dwell (@dwellmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/dwellmagazine

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“My beginning in this life was in nature,” Lia says, her voice lilting through the phone. In her earliest years, she lived in a small village along a river bordering Brazil and Bolivia. At three years old, her parents moved to the countryside near São Paulo, an area that was still connected to nature albeit slightly less remote. Then, at 18, she finally left for the city to attend university. Lia is now a psychologist who emphasizes the therapeutic use of psychedelics, particularly psilocybin and DMT. As her work and life progressed, living in nature became increasingly important. “What is outside is inside. So when we see what we are doing with our planet, it’s also what we are doing to our bodies,” she says. “In my work as a psychologist, one of my goals is to connect people to art, their bodies, and nature.” So when the time came to design her home, Lia had her priorities straight. Starting with property in a small village, Lia worked with arquipelago.co to develop prototypes for an ecovillage comprising three homes—one for herself and two to sell to like-minded individuals. Now complete, Lia says the rammed earth construction was the best way she had found to support her preferences for connecting with and supporting the natural world: “The house represents my view of life in some way—how to be living as a human being on this planet.” To see how the team brought the project to life, read Lia’s full #ConstructionDiary at the link in our bio.
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Photos by kokpedro
Story by gracebernard

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