collective live+work spaces
for people going places with purpose

Current progress

See the front page for details on getting involved, either volunteering or investing. See the property report for layout and details.

Location #1: the Cèze, France🇫🇷

Acquisition and planning: completion late Oct '26

  1. ✅ property visited
  2. ✅ plans prepared
  3. ✅ offer accepted
  4. ✅ sale agreement
  5. ⏳ incorporation (in progress)
  6. 🗝️ sale finalisation & keys (mid Oct)
  7. 📐 finalise measurements and plans

Preparations: completion March '27

  1. 🧾 electricity contract
  2. 🧾 FRR application (zero-rated property tax)
  3. 🪣 repoint/render walls (ground, 1st; middle, south)
  4. 🪣 patch up floors (ground, 1st)
  5. 🔨 remove 1st–2nd floor internal staircase
  6. 🪛 plumbing core
  7. 🚚 founder move-in
  8. 🧾 fibre contract
  9. 🪚 develop and test bedroom door design
  10. 🔨 6 bedrooms all 2nd floor
  11. 🪚 develop and test bed base design
  12. 🪚 develop and test inset sliding bathroom door design
  13. 🪛 1 ensuite initially shared
  14. 🧹 strip/repoint/paint vaulting (1st, ground)
  15. 🪚 basic kitchen

Preliminary: completion May '27

  1. volunteering / work-exchange begins
  2. 🪚 new 1st floor rear windows
  3. 🧾 buy vehicle
  4. 🪚 dining
  5. 🔨 1st shared bathroom 3rd floor
  6. 🪛 1 ensuite
  7. 🪚 dorm room and pods 5 on 3rd floor
  8. 🪚 develop and test pod design
  9. 🔨 swap 1st balcony door and window lower window opening to fit, and blockup old doorway for window
  10. 🔨 demolish ground dividing wall possible beam strengthening
  11. 🪣 insulate and render walls north, east, west
  12. 🔨 2nd floor staircase concrete formwork; demolition of existing
  13. 6 bedrooms, 5 pods; adventurous rates -70%

Intial operations: completion June '27

  1. 🪚 more kitchen
  2. 🪚 install temporary ground floor windows
  3. 🪚 workspace
  4. 🔨 cave lintel
  5. 🪏 terrace
  6. adequate rates -50%

Full capacity: unscheduled

  1. all remaining rooms / 3rd floor
  2. 🪚 minor roof strengthening and repairs
  3. 🔨 partitions, insulation, infra
  4. 🔨 2nd shared bathroom
  5. 🪚 new bedrooms 4: 2 plus, 1 plain, 1 petite
  6. 🪛 3rd floor door
  7. 🪚 full kitchen
  8. 🪏 front garden
  9. launch rates -35%

Finishing: unscheduled

  1. 🔨 shed & laundry
  2. 🔨 callroom
  3. 🪛 replace 2nd floor door
  4. 🪚 workspace daybeds
  5. 🪛 common flooring lounge, kitchen and workspace
  6. 🪛 remaining ensuites

Extended operations: unscheduled

  1. providing winter coverage
  2. 🔨 seal ground nook
  3. 🔨 staircase
  4. 🛒 duvets
  5. 🪛 bathroom heating
  6. 🪛 room heating
  7. 🪛 dining heating
  8. 🪛 coworking heating
  9. low season operations begin

Niceties: unscheduled

  1. bonus facilities for extra appeal; deferable
  2. 🪣 cave repointing and floor
  3. 🪚 cave fitout
  4. 🔨 3rd shared bathroom
  5. 🪚 atrium roof and fitout
  6. 🔨 sauna
  7. 🔨 new lintel and window to enlarge and replace (tiny) window in 2nd floor plain bedroom
  8. 🔨 rebuild ground–1st steps
  9. rates begin targetting potential