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. This is a general overview, many details are omitted.

Bespoke features and innovations

Location #1: Cèze, France🇫🇷

Acquisition and planning

1. commenced July 9th
2. ✅ property visited (July 10th)
3. ✅ plans prepared
4. ✅ offer accepted (July 28th)
5. ✅ sale agreement (Sept 6th, delay due to holidays)
6. ✅ incorporation (begun Aug 22nd, complete Sept 22th; slow due to non-native principal [asked for passport but actually titre required], uncommunicated capital bank transfer requirements [from French bank only] and changes to statuts [for variable capital and business activity including property])
7. ✅ sale act and keys (5 weeks; speedy as agent chased the Mairie, only just avoiding a holiday closure for the Notaire)
8. 📐 finalise measurements and plans
9. completed Oct 13th

Preparations

1. expected for March '27
2. 🧾 electricity contract
3. 🧾 ZFRR application (tax exonerations)
4. 🪛 plumbing core 2nd floor bedroom bathroom connections, pipe across kitchen, descent into and across ground
5. 🔨 remove 1st–2nd floor internal staircase and rebuild vault/floor
6. 🪣 repoint/render walls (ground, 1st; middle, south)
7. 🪣 patch up floors (ground, 1st)
8. 🚚 founder move-in
9. 🧾 fibre contract
10. 🪚 develop and test bedroom door design
11. 🔨 6 bedrooms all 2nd floor
12. 🪛 1 ensuite initially shared
13. 🪛 ventillation control system
14. 🪚 develop and test bed base design
15. 🪚 develop and test inset sliding bathroom door design
16. 🧹 strip/repoint/paint vaulting (1st, ground)
17. 🪚 basic kitchen

Preliminary

1. volunteering / work-exchange; commencement March '27; completion May '27
2. 🧾 fibre and WiFi
3. 🪚 new 1st floor rear windows
4. 🧾 buy vehicle
5. 🪚 dining
6. 🔨 1st shared bathroom 3rd floor
7. 🪛 1 ensuite
8. 🪚 dorm room and pods 5 on 3rd floor
9. 🪚 develop and test pod design
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:

1. completion June '27
2. 🪚 more kitchen
3. 🪚 install temporary ground floor windows
4. 🪚 workspace
5. 🔨 cave lintel
6. 🪏 terrace
7. adequate rates -50%

Full capacity

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

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

Extended operations

1. providing winter coverage; deferable
2. 🔨 seal ground nook
3. 🔨 staircase 2nd–3rd floor and roof; either temporary single-pane glass or PVC double; either timber frame with insulation and timber cladding or breeze-block
4. 🛒 duvets
5. 🪛 bathroom heating
6. 🪛 room heating
7. 🪛 dining heating
8. 🪛 coworking heating
9. low season operations begin

Niceties

1. bonus facilities for extra appeal; deferable
2. ✨ sparkling water dispenser
3. ✨ ice cube machine
4. ✨ ice cream machine
5. ✨ large flat screen
6. ✨ vertical wind turbine
7. 🪛 ventillation humdity sensor I2C, pre-wired
8. 🪣 cave repointing and floor
9. 🪚 cave fitout
10. 🔨 3rd shared bathroom
11. 🪚 2nd callroom
12. 🪚 atrium roof and fitout
13. 🔨 sauna
14. 🔨 new lintel and window to enlarge and replace (tiny) window in 2nd floor plain bedroom
15. 🔨 rebuild ground–1st steps could also remove top step moving it into the lounge (and kitchen)
16. rates begin targetting potential

Wishlist

1. 💡 compressed CO₂ commercial washing machine
2. 💡 Vacuum Insulated Glass windows