The Grace Farms Rest House Project aims to provide tea and coffee farmers worldwide with ethically designed, sustainably built rest houses that offer safety, respite, and community spaces. By leveraging open-source design principles, this initiative seeks to create globally adaptable solutions that uphold and demonstrate Design for Freedom principles!

Slade Architecture is proud to support the Grace Farms Rest House Project, a global initiative committed to advancing ethical, sustainable, and transparent design in agricultural communities. These rest houses are being designed for implementation across various coffee and tea farms, with a focus on being locally adaptable while upholding a global standard for dignity and care.

By leveraging open-source design principles, the project aims to inspire collaborative, scalable solutions that can be adopted and reimagined by communities around the world. Each rest house is thoughtfully conceived with sustainably sourced materials and an unwavering commitment to labor transparency — core tenets of the Design for Freedom movement.

Slade Architecture is honored to be part of this important work and to help create spaces that not only serve functional needs, but also promote equity, wellbeing, and human dignity across global supply chains.

Learn more about the project and the broader Design for Freedom initiative here, more to share soon!