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The Foundation InitiativeEco-village · Design project
Eco-village · Design project
The Foundation Initiative
A design project for an eco-village in Northern California: the settlement, its houses and territory, the architecture and the website. The land is not bought yet and nothing is built, so every image here is a concept visualization.
Task
The project offers people a product: a place to live in Northern California. With no land and no houses yet, the design has to show what this place is and what one person actually gets, without reading as a commune, a resort or a suburb.
Solution
We designed it from one person's life outward: their own ground first, then their own house, then what they share with others.
The same line runs through every scale, from the settlement to the website. Distance, forest and paths draw it. Fences do not.
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What we brought together
Land, houses, shared spaces and the website in one design concept. Positioning, spatial planning, visual direction, copy and frontend.
01 / Private and shared
Private, not isolated.
A home stands on its own ground. Other homes sit across the forest, and a larger shared building stands far down the road.
People are nearby when you choose them, not on top of you. The rest of the design follows from this.
02 / Land
Your own ground comes first.
The house takes only part of the land. Most of the parcel stays open.
A garden, a studio or a workshop can come later, or not at all. The land changes with you.
03 / Boundaries
No fences.
Nothing is fenced: not homes, not shared spaces, not routes. Distance, the way a house faces, forest and terrain keep things private.
Your own path joins the shared route only beyond your clearing, so no one passes your door on the way somewhere else.
04 / Architecture
One architecture, one rule.
Homes and shared buildings share one form: a round faceted dome that reads as heavy, matte concrete. No cabins, no boxes.
The design code rests on efficiency: the least resources for the most use. It governs the shell, not how you live inside it.
05 / The house
Day above, private below.
One entrance at ground level opens into the day space: kitchen, work table and living area around a clear center. Bedroom, bathroom and wardrobe sit in a square level below.
This is a working scheme, not a construction drawing. Sizes and structure still need an architect and engineers.
06 / Work
Work close, then leave it.
Serious work can sit on your own land, in a separate studio a short walk from the house.
Close enough to remove the commute, separate enough to leave behind.
07 / Shared spaces
Shared spaces add to a home.
Everyone keeps their own house and their own kitchen. Shared buildings hold what is better built together, such as a gym.
Using them is a choice. Which ones get built is still open.
08 / Website
A website for a product.
The site presents the place as a product: how a day goes, what you own, what you share.
On the plan of one parcel, six points open six places.
09 / What is real
Possible is marked as possible.
Only the home is marked Included. Everything else on the parcel is marked Possibility.
The last screen keeps one promise, own your time. The footer under it says the rest: site not yet purchased, concept stage, nothing built yet.
The result
Designed before it is built.
The land is not bought yet. The first participants choose it together, so for now the design carries the whole idea. Nothing here is built, and every image is a concept visualization.
