Architecture · Urban health · Wellbeing
The spaces we inhabit shape us.
My work is to understand how — and to design better conditions for that to happen.
Liliana Salaverry
Architect specialized in urban health
Who I am
I'm Liliana Salaverry, an architect specialized in urban health.
I work at the intersection of the built environment, scientific evidence and human capacities — so that spaces contribute to the health, wellbeing and flourishing of those who inhabit them.
A practice with two dimensions: concrete assessment and consulting services, and Habitarse — the research platform that explores the deeper horizon.
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“According to the World Health Organization, the environments in which we are born, grow, live and work largely determine our health and quality of life. Yet most of the spaces we inhabit have not been assessed or designed from a comprehensive health and wellbeing perspective.”
My work is to assess built environments from this perspective — translating scientific evidence into concrete tools and proposals for those who design, plan and manage the spaces we inhabit.
What I offer
Services for spaces that care for the people who inhabit them
Space Assessment for Health and Wellbeing
Systematic assessment of built environments at urban and architectural scale — public spaces, facilities, housing and everyday-use environments — based on health, wellbeing and sustainability criteria.
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Analysis connecting a population's health data with the characteristics of its built environment to identify which spatial conditions are contributing to those outcomes and which interventions could improve them.
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Review and guidance of urban or architectural projects to integrate health and wellbeing criteria from the design phase onward.
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Technical support for local governments in incorporating health, wellbeing and sustainability criteria into their urban planning documents.
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A 45-minute exploratory conversation to identify needs and explore possibilities for collaboration — with no prior commitment.
Learn moreHabitarse
Beyond the services, there is a deeper question guiding all of this work.
Spaces can foster or inhibit fundamental human capacities: attention, perception, emotional regulation, contemplation and reflection. These capacities are not a luxury — they are the foundation of human flourishing and of a more conscious way of inhabiting the world.
HABITARSE is the transdisciplinary research, design and creation platform investigating exactly that — how space and the experience of inhabiting it can contribute to cultivating those capacities, opening up possibilities for human flourishing.
Pilot underway
The Habitarse pilot in Valencia
I'm currently developing the first Habitarse pilot in Valencia: an urban pause-and-wellbeing intervention that seeks to identify how small transformations of public space can foster measurable human capacities — attention, emotional regulation, cognitive restoration — in people's everyday lives.
The pilot works with an indicator protocol under development, grounded in scientific evidence on cognitive restoration, emotional regulation and urban wellbeing — and seeks to generate replicable evidence on how public space can foster people's wellbeing in their daily lives.
It is open to collaborations with institutions, universities, collectives and local organizations interested in exploring and co-building together how urban space can contribute to the wellbeing of those who inhabit it.
Pause · Attention · Emotional regulation · Cognitive restoration
Frequently asked questions
What is urban health?+
It's the field that studies how the built environment — streets, parks, housing, facilities — influences people's physical, emotional and social health. The WHO recognizes the environment as one of the main determinants of health.
Who are your services for?+
Municipalities, architecture firms, NGOs, foundations and institutions in Spain and Latin America that want to assess or design spaces from a health and wellbeing perspective.
What's the difference between the services and Habitarse?+
The services are concrete assessment and consulting for projects and spaces. Habitarse is the research platform exploring a deeper question: how space can cultivate human capacities like attention or contemplation.
How do I start working with you?+
The first step is a free 45-minute diagnostic session, with no commitment, where we explore your project's needs.
Do you work outside Spain?+
Yes. I work in person in Spain and remotely with municipalities, NGOs and institutions in Latin America.
If you have a project, a space or a planning process you'd like to look at from an urban-health perspective — or you simply want to know more about this work — there are several ways to take the first step.
If you'd like to follow the process closely, I regularly share reflections on urban health, space and human experience on LinkedIn and Instagram — and soon in the Reflections section of this site.