The Haven combines the western approach to health and wellness with traditional Asian therapies to provide a sanctuary where individuals can relax and rejuvenate while focusing on their goals for improved health and vitality.   With medical staff available for consultations, The Haven provides an evidence-based design of a salubrious setting.   This includes luxurious accommodations and extensive fitness, spa and holistic health facilities designed to balance as well as revitalize mind, body, and spirit.

The Haven is located at the Ballyshear estate in Southampton, the popular seaside resort community which is close to and yet away from New York City.   It is now a 35-acre spread overlooking the water of Peconic Bay on Long Island and was built in the Georgian style in 1913 by famed architect F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr.   Additional existing structures have been incorporated on the site to complete the program.   Ballyshear is anchored in a luxurious American past and deemed to be one of the last great estates of the Gilded Age of the Hamptons.

The Haven has been designed to create an over-all feeling, at once familiar and comforting, for its affluent user group.  Guests slow down even as they enter the site on its cobblestone road and begin to strip off layers mentally and physically as they focus on the ultimate goal of feeling rejuvenated, well rested, and fit.   The ambiance goes from dense to sparse as it moves from the lush Georgian aesthetic of the main house, Ballyshear, to the Asian aesthetic of the spa and out-buildings with simpler symmetry and proportions, all the while maintaining comfort.  Subterranean passageways, organically shaped, naturally lit, echo garden paths between buildings and allow for site use through nature’s seasonal changes.

Ballyshear, along with the other structures, has been designed to retain its residential ambiance and as such aids in comfort, health and well-being.  Moreover, symmetry and proportions are used to create a feeling of balance.  Baths, sumptuous and inviting, complete the picture in stripping down one’s layers so as to reach the goal of a feeling of well-being.