Design for a lifetime, not for a moment in life.
Haaiven creates luxuriously accessible spaces that simply work for everyone.
We bring together thoughtful design, accessibility, wellness, and intelligent technology in ways that feel natural and effortless.
Spaces that welcome people without compromise, adapt to their changing needs, and allow them to live fully at every stage of life. Accessibility shouldn't be something you notice. It should be something you feel. A hidden luxury, woven into the fabric of everyday life.
Design for a lifetime, not for a moment in life.
Building for Longer Lives
The world is changing. Our living environments need to change with it.
2.1 Billion
People Aged 60+ by 2050
The global 60+ population will reach 2.1 billion — a demographic transformation unlike any in history.
6x
UAE 60+ Population Growth
The UAE's 60+ population is projected to reach approximately 2 million — nearly 20% of the population — by 2050.
Families are also changing. As people live longer and careers move families across borders, the need is growing for multigenerational living that keeps families connected while preserving independence. Yet most homes and communities are still designed for one moment in life—requiring costly adaptation, relocation or loss of independence as needs change.
Haaiven Gold Standard™
Certification & accreditation for accessible and sustainable environments
Haaiven Collection™
Curated products, furnishings & design solutions
Ha(ai)ven AI™
Intelligent technology platform that consolidates all data from connected products for accessible living.
210 measurable criteria
Addressing architecture, interiors, technology, wellness, and human experience.
22 room types
Plus the complete journey through a building and its surrounding environment.
17 global standards benchmarked
Drawing from leading frameworks across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Gulf.
100-point Haaiven Index
A proprietary assessment and scoring methodology designed to measure performance beyond basic code compliance.
Haaiven Consultancy Process
We are your specialist partner on the project team
Haaiven is a human-centered consultancy for developers, architects, designers, and operators. We bring your future residents’ and guests’ everyday experience into the design process, while preserving each project’s architectural character and aesthetic ambition.
We work alongside your delivery team, not in place of it, across six connected areas of practice. We work in Residential communities · Hospitality · Healthcare & wellness · Workplaces · Education · Retail · Public environments
Our Process
One philosophy. Four interconnected phases.
Our consultancy is flexible. We can support a project from its earliest concept through completion or collaborate with an existing team at any stage. From the initial brief through design, outfitting, and operational planning. The earlier we join, the less it costs. We deliver client experience briefs, design reviews, and product and specification criteria.
01 | Discover & Define
Understanding People & Purpose
We begin by understanding the vision, the people who will use the space, and the opportunities to make it more inclusive, functional, and adaptable. This establishes the foundation for thoughtful design decisions.
02 | Planning & Pre-Construction
For new construction, we bring the full project team together to embed accessibility, wellbeing, and adaptability before key decisions are fixed. From site access and building layouts to structure, services, and future flexibility, we consider how every part works together to protect the vision early and reduce costly changes later.
03 | Shape the Community
Connecting People & Places
We look beyond individual buildings to the wider community—how people move, connect, gather, and experience their surroundings. From pathways and landscapes to shared amenities, we help shape environments that encourage accessibility, wellness, and belonging.
04 | Design the Experience
Making Every Space Work Beautifully
We collaborate with architects and designers to bring human needs into every aspect of the built environment. Layouts, lighting, acoustics, accessibility, and intelligent technology come together to create intuitive, comfortable spaces that adapt throughout life.
05 | Detail, Materials & Delivery
Bringing the Vision to Life
The smallest details often make the greatest difference. We help guide the selection of materials, finishes, furnishings, products, and technology, ensuring that beauty, functionality, and inclusivity work seamlessly together.
Beautiful by Design. Extraordinary by Experience. Timeless by Purpose.
An Opportunity for UAE
The world is changing. Our living environments need to change with it.
The UAE is already prioritising family cohesion, active aging, senior wellbeing and inclusive communities, while UAE long-term and retirement residency pathways make it increasingly possible for international residents to build an entire life here.
The choice is no longer simply “independent living” vs. “elder care.”
The new emerging model is multigenerational communities - private homes combined with accessibility, wellness, social connection and scalable support.
The need is to build beautiful, adaptable communities where families can stay together, people can remain independent, and homes evolve throughout a lifetime.
A extremely timely message from HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak on the support and care for senior citizens.
Successful design doesn't make people feel accommodated, it makes everyone feel at home.
Leadership
We bring together decades of expertise across business development, universal design, brand strategy, and operational excellence that is united by a shared commitment to building inclusive communities.
J. Paige Propper - Sanborn, MA, MS
Co-Founder
Paige founded Haaiven with a clear belief: beautiful spaces should help people feel comfortable, capable and connected at every stage of life.
Her background spans child and family development, pediatric healthcare, neurorehabilitation, eldercare and inclusive design. Through pediatric radiation oncology and family support work within Boston’s Harvard-affiliated hospital network, followed by program development at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, she saw how profoundly an environment can shape a person’s comfort, confidence and experience of care.
Paige has founded educational and health initiatives, developed programs for children and families internationally, and founded Zariki Nursery and Primary School in Tanzania. Her work with people navigating illness, neurological injury and changing abilities informs her understanding of what makes a space feel intuitive, reassuring and welcoming.
At Haaiven, she brings these perspectives together across residential, hospitality and wellness environments that integrate thoughtful design, discreet technology and opportunities for both privacy and community. Her approach places beauty, dignity and independence at the heart of luxury.
Her guiding principle: “Design for a lifetime, not for a moment in life.”
Hanan Sayed Worrell
Co-Founder
Hanan Sayed Worrell is the Co-Founder of Haaiven, an international placemaker, and a civil engineer dedicated to building environments where everyone naturally belongs.
Over a 30-year journey as a resident of the UAE, she has served as a cornerstone of the region's cultural and architectural transformation, shaping environments that reflect the rich tapestry of its diverse community.
Hanan’s professional footprint is woven into the UAE’s defining institutional and cultural spaces. Her legacy includes leading strategic, civic, and development objectives for premier mega-projects like the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, NYU Abu Dhabi, and the Abu Dhabi Airport expansion.
Beyond physical structures, her passion for building community and cross-cultural connection is demonstrated through her celebrated work as a cultural strategist and author, exploring the deep relationships between hospitality, memory, and a sense of place.
Bringing together her Stanford engineering background with decades of development expertise, Hanan is now launching Haaiven to shift the paradigm of real estate toward multigenerational co-living.
Her forward-thinking vision addresses the UAE's emerging shift toward active aging and long-term residency by creating adaptive, inclusive, and deeply restorative residential and hospitality environments designed to support families through every generation and stage of life.
Christopher Govero, MBA, LSSBB
Strategic Operations
Christopher “Chris” Govero is a healthcare strategy and operations executive with more than 25 years of experience across hospital leadership, behavioural health, outpatient services, corporate strategy and international consulting.
Having lived and worked in the UAE for several years, Chris combines established regional knowledge with extensive American healthcare experience. His career includes leadership and transformation work with NMC Healthcare, SSM Health and Hospital Sisters Health System. At EIX Consulting, his responsibilities span healthcare strategy, investment evaluation and growth planning across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Lebanon.
At NMC Healthcare, he developed clinical staffing and productivity models to improve workforce efficiency. At SSM Health, he oversaw a ten-hospital behavioral health portfolio, improving staff retention and emergency department response. This work brings practical experience across organisational structures, professional cultures and systems of care.
Drawing on Lean Six Sigma, Chris connects executive strategy with frontline delivery. At Haaiven, he helps translate Luxury That Cares™️ into practical operations and services that support people, strengthen teams and enable sustainable growth.
Jean Waltz
Connected Technology, Systems Integration & AI
Jean Waltz is a technology entrepreneur, systems engineer and product development leader who turns ambitious ideas into integrated, practical solutions. Her foundation in advanced military simulation at Link Simulator Systems spans software integration, database architecture and information visualization, including deploying a complex simulation system for the Singapore government.
As Co-Founder and CTO of r-Thread, Jean bridges business strategy and technical execution, defining product requirements, directing workflows and coordinating developers and technology partners. Her work includes API integration with Pertexa and advancing connected healthcare, AI-enabled telehealth and hardware integration with Zenro.
Within Haaiven, Jean brings the technical vision and integration leadership to unite connected environments, wellness services and intelligent platforms. She translates the philosophy of accessible, independent living into clear technology requirements and coordinated delivery—making sophisticated systems work seamlessly for the people who use them.
Our People
Our team bring deep expertise across healthcare, hospitality, architecture, finance, design, and technology, guiding Haaiven's strategy and ensuring our vision is grounded in real-world experience. Their insight helps us turn the principles of Luxury That Cares™ into spaces, services, and systems that support people at every stage of life.
Ashish Parikh, MBA,
Hospitality, Investment & Senior Living
Ashish Parikh is a hospitality and real estate finance executive with more than 25 years of experience in investment, development and operations. During his 25-year tenure as Chief Financial Officer of Hersha Hotels & Resorts, he oversaw more than $3 billion in hotel real estate acquisitions, financing, development and management. His responsibilities included overseeing capital planning and investment, through which he developed extensive experience ensuring hotel properties complied with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Ashish is also an early investor in Priya Living, which owns and operates high-end senior living residences in Northern California and India. Its thoughtfully crafted environments place people and community at their heart, bringing the service, comfort and attention to detail of luxury hospitality into senior living. This experience informs his understanding of how investment, design and operations can work together to support independence, connection and quality of life as people age.
His earlier career includes roles with Fleet Financial Group, Tyco International and Ernst & Young. He holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a BBA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Within Haaiven, Ashish brings a commercially grounded perspective on accessible hospitality and senior living, helping connect thoughtful design with operational quality, financial viability and lasting value.
Dr Veronica McBurnie MBChB (Glasgow), MRCGP, DFFP, LFHom (Med)
Medical and Wellness oversight
Dr Veronica McBurnie is a family physician and founder of Westbourne Medical Studios in Glasgow, where she brings together conventional medicine, integrative care and a deeply personal approach to wellbeing.
Her philosophy centres on understanding the whole person, their physical health, emotional wellbeing and everyday experience. She created Westbourne as a welcoming environment where medical care, nutrition education, movement and creative practices sit alongside one another, giving patients time to feel heard and supported.
Alongside her clinical work, Veronica has a particular interest in meditation, singing and sound-based wellbeing practices. Her vision extends to the experience of care itself: thoughtful surroundings, meaningful relationships and opportunities for people to take an active role in their health.
Her work reflects a belief that compassionate care and carefully considered environments can help people feel more confident, connected and supported throughout their lives.
Ruari Gardiner
Architect
Ruari Gardiner is a Glasgow-based architect and Director of gfivethree, bringing together architecture, masterplanning, urban planning and interior design. His experience spans residential, hospitality, healthcare and commercial environments, from private homes and interiors to larger developments and community spaces.
A University of Dundee graduate with a Master of Architecture awarded with distinction, Ruari combines creative vision with a practical understanding of how buildings and places work. He and his fellow director bring experience working on the Rio Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games, alongside projects including hospitals, marinas and workplaces.
For Haaiven, Ruari brings an integrated perspective across the whole environment—from the planning of connected communities to the buildings, rooms and details people experience every day. His approach supports beautiful, functional places that respond to people’s needs and remain valuable throughout their lives.
Nicole Le Saout
Visual Design
Nicole brings together experience in financial technology, digital design and visual communication. Her work with Reuters spanned trading room and risk management systems in Luxembourg, Geneva and Paris, including project management for trading room technology.
As owner of Captivox Web Design in Dublin, Nicole combined technical understanding with creative execution, providing website and graphic design for banking clients. She holds a Bachelor of Science in International Business from Colorado State University and studied digital photography at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art & Design.
Her blend of systems experience and visual design offers a valuable perspective for Haaiven's vision: thoughtfully integrating technology into beautiful environments that make everyday life easier.
Prakash Khemlani
Hospitality Design specialist
Prakash Khemlani is an international entrepreneur and hospitality specialist who brings together financial expertise, design insight and global project delivery. As Founder of Vision Pacific Group, he has built a business delivering bespoke interiors, furnishings and procurement solutions for luxury hotels, resorts and residences across four continents.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Prakash began his career in strategic consulting and investment banking, including high-yield bonds at Bankers Trust. He later developed extensive experience in manufacturing, sourcing and supply chain management—building the foundation for his ability to connect ambitious design with commercial discipline. His project portfolio includes the Ritz Paris, Hôtel de Crillon and W Maldives.
Prakash also serves as Founding Chair of TIGER 21 Abu Dhabi, bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and family office principals around investment, leadership and legacy.
For Haaiven, he brings the practical expertise to translate thoughtful design into beautifully finished spaces, aligning craftsmanship, procurement and financial feasibility with lasting value.
Roudha AlMarri, MBA,
Operations
Roudha is an entrepreneur and business leader whose experience spans interiors, strategic partnerships, publishing, and marketing communications. As Managing Partner of Vision United LLC, part of Vision Pacific Group, she leads business development and project delivery for hospitality, residential, and commercial spaces.
Her work connects design with execution, coordinating procurement, specialist manufacturing, logistics, and installation to deliver bespoke furniture, joinery, and interior fit-out solutions. She brings a practical understanding of how thoughtful design becomes a finished environment.
Roudha is also the founder of House 101 Publishing and Jawhar, and previously served as Director of Marketing Communications at Arab Media Group. She holds an MBA with double majors in Finance and Operations Management from the University of Toledo, bringing financial and operational insight alongside her creative and commercial experience.
Jessica Williams, AIA, WELL AP, NCARB
Architecture & Well-being
Jessica Williams is an architect and founder of SAIL Architects whose work connects thoughtful design with human health and well-being. A WELL Accredited Professional, she considers how spaces support the way people feel, function and live.
Her approach begins with listening—understanding people’s routines, personalities and relationship with their surroundings. She is currently in Japan taking a course in neuroscience and architecture, deepening her exploration of how the built environment influences human experience. Drawing on WELL principles, Jessica considers how natural light, air, views and spatial organization shape comfort and well-being.
At Haaiven, Jessica combines this perspective with thoughtful space planning, a strong connection to nature and collaboration throughout design and construction. She supports our shared belief that beautiful spaces should make everyday life easier, more comfortable and more welcoming.
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