INN AT SERENBE


SELBORNE HAMLET THE ARTS


Serenbe Community Masterplan


STAGE 1 The fi rst hamlet, Selborne, focuses on the arts, including the culinary arts, and features restaurants as well as art galleries and shops.


PHASE IV EDUCATION


STAGE 2 The second hamlet, Grange, has an agricultural theme, and features Serenbe’s 25 acre organic farm, an equestrian centre and a general store.


CROSSROADS


STAGE 3 The construction and


ART FARM


development of Mado, Serenbe’s wellness-themed hamlet, is currently underway. It will feature a spa and hotel, a Montessori school, assisted living, a community pool and fi tness centre and a memory care centre.


STAGE 4 MADO HAMLET HEALTH & WELLNESS


GRANGE HAMLET AGRICULTURE


Serenbe’s fourth, and largest, hamlet will focus on ‘education with a twist,’ and will welcome students keen to learn about the architectural and developmental principles Serenbe is built on.


In-ground trampolines, bocce courts, fi re pits, games of horse-shoe and rocking chairs and benches are placed around the neighbourhoods for organic and planned congregation.” Designing the community in this way also


makes sense from an environmental point of view, says Nygren. “Serenbe is designed on sacred geometry principles, with build- ings clustered along serpentine-like forms fi tted to the undulations of the land. This requires minimal land disturbances and allows the community to reserve large areas of undeveloped green space. Homes and ham- lets are connected by these looping country roads and a network of well-worn footpaths that make walking easier than driving a car.”


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LEISURE AND CULTURE Selborne and the Grange have also been modelled on English villages, which – in contrast to most modern American surburban developments – tend to feature a high number of non residential functions. Today Selborne has three restaurants, a B&B (The Inn at Serenbe), a spa, art galleries and a range of boutiques. It also has a lively programme of events, from Saturday farm- er’s markets to performances by the Serenbe Playhouse theatre group, all of which are pro- moted to visitors as well as residents. “I was very keen to get in as many non residential functions as possible, and also to cross polli- nate those functions,” says Tabb.


Thirty acres of the development is devoted


to farming and edible landscaping – the farm is certifi ed organic and biodynamic. The pro- duce is used in Serenbe’s restaurants and also sold at the weekly farmer’s market. While the planned developments are impor- tant, allowing space for spontaneous meetings to occur was also vital, says Tabb. “The interstitial space between the build-


ings is very important. What happens here is that a random set of opportunities – either a waterfall or a clearing in the woods, or human interventions such as treehouses built by the community or seats placed in clearings – become points of discovery. It contributes to a greater sense of the non residential.”


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