A shipping-container co-living space glowing at dusk in the desert
Sunbeam

Spaces

Hubs of our own for the community — somewhere to stay, work, learn and play, unlocked with your Community membership. Still ahead of us: South Africa first, in time.

✹ Spaces will be hubs of our own, spread around the world for our community — every door opened by a ✹Community membership. None are built yet. This page is the blueprint.

Minimal. Sustainable. Affordable. In that order, on purpose.

Minimal, sustainable and affordable - we focus on providing gorgeous spaces that meet your needs without unnecessary frills or finishes.

I need office space

I need desk space

I need living space

I need family space

I need party space

I need event space

I need community space

Four ways in.

Container homes on a hillside at night

Space to Stay

A bed, kept affordable

A bed, good light, and the whole hub downstairs.

Container workspaces on a hillside at night

Space to Work

Desks, kept affordable

Desks and quiet rooms, bookable by the day. The coffee's figured out.

People learning together in a bright workshop space

Space to Learn

Sessions & workshops

Where School sessions, First Light meetups and member workshops happen. Book one, teach something.

A crowd in motion at a party outside a lit-up building

Space to Play

Dinners, shows, parties

Kitchens, rooftops and screening corners for dinners, shows and the occasional questionable party.

Your membership is the key.

Spaces aren't rentable to the public. Every door opens with a ✹Community membership — that's what keeps them affordable, trusting, and full of people worth bumping into.

Members will be able to live and work in any of them.

✹Community

Opinionated architecture.

Our hubs share a language: modular, deliberate, repeatable. We're developing it the way you'd develop anything worth keeping — slowly, in public, one building at a time. Every hub is a draft of it. Good bones, second-hand furniture with first-rate stories, nothing that doesn't earn its place.

The spaces are early sketches of something much bigger we're building toward.

✹Space to customize — every hub leaves room for members to shape it.

South Africa first.

One hub to start, somewhere in South Africa, when it's time. The rest of the map stays unwritten for now — the community will pull it where it goes.

How booking will work.

  1. Be a member. Community membership is the key to every door. Not a member yet? Start there.
  2. Write to us. Dates, and which kind of space — stay, work, learn or play. Send the email.
  3. Get your welcome. We confirm by reply, with everything you need and someone local to say hi to.
  4. Leave it lovely. Our spaces run on trust. Take care of them like the next member is your friend — because they are.

A hub, not a hotel.

For members passing through, working deep, teaching something, celebrating something.

Not for anonymous stays. If you want a place where nobody talks to you, cities are full of those.

Fair questions.

Can I book without a membership?

No — membership is the key. The good news: it's priced to your means, so the door is closer than you think.

What will a stay cost?

Kept affordable, on purpose — priced fairly and openly when the first doors open. Write to us and we'll keep it fair.

Can I host an event?

Yes — Space to Play and Space to Learn exist exactly for that. Members host dinners, workshops and shows all the time.

Where will they be?

South Africa first, in time. After that, wherever the community pulls us. Your membership will work in all of them.

✹First Light

Three free months. One finished thing.

✹Community

The membership. Priced to your means. Open worldwide.

Projects from Sunbeam

The work.

Things we’ve already shipped. Proof we mean it.

All live, all real — most of it open source at github.com/sunbeam-za.