Caliz Linterna de Paz: Viviente Memorial, 2025

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Living Memorial Sanctuary Archipelago and Chapel for Maya Communities, in remembrance of the displaced, the disappeared and Guatemalan refugees: 

Hydro-Regenerative Biocultural Vessel Memorial Architecture for Cultural Healing and Reconciliation.

South shores of Lago Petén Itza, Petén, Guatemala, Central America.

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Caliz embodies into sacred civic that heals ecological systems, purifies water, sequesters carbon, and upholds community livelihoods through regenerative Indigenous design. It honours the memory held in earth’s strata—3,000 years of Maya sacred life and 500 years of colonial violence and displacement—reconciling these layered wounds of past and present. Caliz embodies cultural and spiritual reconciliation as an integrated biocultural healing process rooted in reconnection with all living beings as family, not resources, each with inherent spirit and right to life. Caliz serves as both vessel and place in service.

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This research advances a paradigm shift beyond Western sustainability and circular‑design frameworks by reframing architecture not as the making of buildings but as the reconfiguration of human habitation itself—because planetary trauma is the reason habitation and relationships must be reconciled - challenging extractive, consumption‑driven cycles and proposing a regenerative model grounded in cultural, psychological, emotional, and spiritual reconciliation across past memory, present conditions, and future imaginaries. Drawing from Indigenous scientific knowledge systems, it forges new methodological pathways and positions reconciliation as the essential precursor to regeneration—recognizing that while history cannot be undone, healing becomes possible through collective reconciliation pathways.