Awe Co-Living Community · Phase 1 · seven souls

How do you want to live?

We're building a home that is both community living and hospitality. Land in nature, held by a small core. Hand-built domes, for us and our guests — and we'd rather ask you than tell you.

Where we are Phase 1, seven souls, and a technique to learn together. $7,500 starts the first season and puts our prototype dome in the ground.

What we're building

A home that is both community living & hospitality.

What if we redesigned community living from creative first principles? Come live the question with us.

  • 01Land in nature, held by a small core — so the place can't be sold out from under itself.
  • 02Hand-built Hundertwasser domes, for us and our guests. We learn the technique and we build them ourselves.
  • 03We tend the space, the vibe, the whole experience. Hospitality is how the place stays open, not a revenue line bolted on.
Ink and watercolour cutaway drawing of a single Awe dome-nest: one round plastered room under a wildflower roof, bed, stove, round window and a curved bench.
What we're buildingOne dome-nest, cut open — the round room the whole village is made of. Bed, stove, one round window, a curved bench.
The Grüne Zitadelle in Magdeburg: a rose-pink building with irregular windows and mature trees growing from its roof.
Trees as tenantsGrüne Zitadelle, Magdeburg. Trees hold tenancy on the roof and pay rent in air.
i.

Continuous learning

Building technique, materials, governance. We learn it in public and write down what we find, so the learning compounds.

ii.

Reciprocity

To the land, to each other, to whoever comes next. Everything we work out gets written down and given back.

iii.

Playful creative rest

Not a productivity retreat. Not a co-working space with plants. Rest that makes things, on no particular schedule.

The window right · 1928–2000

Hundertwasser said anyone should be able to lean out and paint the wall within arm's reach.

So paint it. Pick a colour, click a window. This is the argument we're taking seriously — not his shapes, his politics of who gets to decide what a wall looks like.

0 of 18 painted

Your colour
We are here

Phase 1 — building the dream

Seven souls already gathered. Our first prototype dome, planned within the year. Toward roughly twenty dome-nests, built together over time.

Watercolour drawing of the site as it stands: open meadow, tree line behind, nothing built.
Now · phase 1Bare meadow. Seven of us and land being scouted.
Watercolour drawing of the same meadow with one finished dome-nest standing and a second shell under construction.
Next · within the yearOne dome standing, one shell going up.
Watercolour drawing of the finished village: roughly twenty dome-nests with wildflower roofs across the meadow, linked by paths.
Then · phase 2 onwardRoughly twenty dome-nests, plus the commons.
01 · underway

Gathering the core group

Seven of us. Small enough to actually decide things.

02 · underway

Vision weekends

In a room, drawing, arguing, finding out what we mean.

03 · right now

Educating ourselves

Building techniques and materials — and how to live together on purpose.

04 · next

First prototype dome

Materials and the build, planned within the year.

$7,500Gets the first season going

We're planting something. Help it take root? This covers materials for the prototype dome and the training that lets us build it with our own hands.

Back the first season

Teaser film

Come live the question with us

Teaser film — coming soon

How you can get involved

Dream it with us now, build it with us soon, come enjoy it when it's alive.

Now · open

Dream

Fund the first season through our Artizen sprint. The smallest amount that changes what happens next.

  • Artizen sprint — raising $7,500
  • Named in the open build log
  • Invited to the next vision weekend
Back the sprint
Soon · by application

Build

Come learn dome construction with us and put it in the ground. No experience wanted, only hands.

  • Dome build training weekends
  • Work-trade on the prototype
  • Timeshare — details soon
See build dates
Later · opening soon

Enjoy

Come and stay. Guest dome-nests for short stays, residencies for people making things.

  • Guest dome-nests for short stays
  • Residencies for people making things
  • Opening celebration
Join the list

Reciprocity

This isn't just our dream. We share it all back.

Everything gets documented and open-sourced, so the next group can start from what we learned.

  • Dome-building workshops — methods, materials, what we learned
  • How we found each other, govern, and decide
  • The communication and financing structures we set up
Direction B · Enemy of the Straight Line — back to compare