ORIGIN
NYÜBU — entering the mountain, returning to the self.
The mountain is not a landscape. It is a process.
Lucía Silva
I am a neuro-spatial designer, founder of LS • STUDIO and creator of the NEI methodology.
My work is rooted in a simple belief:
space affects the body.
It can intensify, expose and overwhelm us — or it can soften perception, lower intensity and help us return to ourselves.
Through LS • STUDIO, I develop neuro-regulating refuges, spatial fragments and immersive atmospheres that explore how architecture, light, matter and sensory rhythm can support calmer ways of inhabiting the world.
This work moves between physical and digital environments, visual research, object-scale studies and spatial concepts.
From origin to method.
From body to space.
The mountain is not a landscape.
It is a process.
From Noise to the Mountain
For years, I moved through architecture at a rhythm my body could no longer sustain.
Large projects, luxury villas, fast decisions, external expectations. From the outside, it looked like success. Inside, it felt like noise.
Over time, my body began to speak more clearly than my mind. Anxiety and exhaustion became signals I could no longer ignore.
I had to lose my orientation to understand that I was designing from disconnection.
After many years away, I returned to León.
I took refuge in the mountains, surrounded myself with nature, and began to listen again — not only to space as form, but to space as something the nervous system responds to.
The mountain, the cave, the threshold, the water, the stone, the rhythm of light: they were no longer references. They became a language.
LS • STUDIO was born from that return.
NYÜBU
In NYÜBU, the mountain is not understood as scenery.
It is a process of withdrawal, descent and return.
A movement away from the noise of the world and into a quieter form of perception.
The mountain creates distance.
The cave creates depth.
The threshold marks the moment where the body begins to change state.
Matter can hold silence.
Stone, water, shadow, roughness, density and light became more than visual references.
They became a vocabulary.
A way of understanding how the body reads space before the mind explains it.
In my work, matter is not decoration.
It is information.
It can influence how the body feels: more alert, more protected, more softened, more grounded.
Every refuge begins with a threshold.
A threshold is the first act of regulation.
It separates without isolating.
It lowers intensity.
It prepares the body to enter another rhythm.
For LS • STUDIO, the threshold is not only an architectural element.
It is a nervous system transition.
A refuge does not begin when you arrive.
It begins when the body starts to slow down.
The refuge is not an escape.
It is a return.
A refuge is not a place to disappear.
It is a space where the body can reorganise itself.
Where intensity becomes softer.
Where perception becomes slower.
Where silence is not empty, but structured.
This is the foundation of my work: creating spatial conditions where people can return to themselves.
The refuge does not disconnect the body from the world.
It allows it to return differently.
From Origin to Method
NYÜBU is the origin.
NEI — Neuro Emotional Immersion — is the method.
Through NEI, LS • STUDIO translates emotional and sensory states into spatial decisions: light, matter, proportion, threshold, atmosphere and sequence.
The work begins with the body.
Then it becomes architecture.
Begin from within.
Explore the methodology behind LS•STUDIO’s neuro-spatial refuges, or begin a conversation about a possible collaboration, commission or spatial study.