Leonardo da Vinci, perhaps the most enlightened and influential personality of the Renaissance, is synonymous with sacred geometry as it formed the basis from which all his designs—in art and architecture— were so profoundly developed. One of da Vinci's more remarkable architectural design concepts—and a true marvel of engineering—was that of the reciprocal roof. In the form of a spiraling vortex, the reciprocal roof design was so far advanced for its time that it took nearly four centuries before anyone attempted to actually construct one. And it's really no wonder, as the design seems to defy all known principles of static engineering, even to this day.

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The twelve sided, reciprocal pavilion at villas Ecositas Nosara is the most exuberant expression of da Vinci's reciprocal architectural concept that exists on the planet to this day. The triple reciprocal design, where the lower two reciprocals spiral in opposite directions—defying logic and order—supports the upper reciprocal. The whole evokes the eternal cosmic spiral, where out of chaos comes order. Sitting in the structure one is overwhelmed with the sense of becoming at-one with the Alpha and the Omega, as the structure has no apparent beginning and no apparent ending, but spirals as if eternally to its apex, which is synonymous to the black hole that rests at the center of our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way.