At Granberget, the next person is almost ten kilometres away, and there are five kilometres of gravel road to the postbox. When we tell people that, they sometimes ask whether it gets lonely.
It is a fair question. But our answer has surprised even us. Life at Granberget has taught us something about closeness.
The first kind is the closeness between Cornelia and me. As we began spending more and more time here, it also meant that the two of us were together almost all the time. On many days, it is just us.
And we have discovered how much we like that.
We always have something to talk about and almost always something we want to do. A problem to solve in one of our projects, an outing, work in the garden, a fishing trip, an idea to discuss—or simply a cup of coffee with no need to hurry.
But something else has happened, too. The longer we have lived here, and the more we have built at Granberget, the more people have come into our lives.
When you build something in a remote place, you need other people. Someone becomes a supplier. Someone helps with the building. Someone has a machine we need. Someone knows something we do not. Someone becomes an employee, someone a person to bounce ideas off, and someone eventually a friend.
Slowly, a network has grown around us.
At the same time, we have become part of the village community in Tåsjö in a new way.
Cornelia now exercises several times a week with women from the area. The local heritage centre is a natural meeting place, where old and new activities continue side by side—baking traditional flatbread, smoking fish, exercise classes and other opportunities to meet.
In a city, any one of these might be just another activity among hundreds. Here, where homes are far apart, the places where people actually meet matter all the more.
In recent years, we have also noticed growing interest in what we are building at Granberget.
People ask how it is going. They offer ideas and advice. They follow our projects and respond when we share the next step on Facebook. Sometimes it is only a like or a brief comment.
Small gestures, perhaps. But they mean a great deal to us.
Behind those gestures, we sense a genuine curiosity about what we are doing and, we believe, pleasure that someone has chosen to invest, build and try to create new jobs here.
Perhaps it is only when you live far from other people that you truly begin to understand their value.
At Granberget, we have experienced both kinds of closeness: the kind between the two of us and the kind that lives a few kilometres away, in the people around us.
People live far apart here. But that does not mean we feel far from them.
During the summer of 2026, we selected three pilot partners from almost 100 applications from Sweden and abroad. The pilot year has now begun with installations in Hemavan, Åre and Borgafjäll.
Under sommaren 2026 valde vi ut tre pilotkunder bland närmare 100 intresseanmälningar från Sverige och andra länder. Pilotåret har nu inletts med installationer i Hemavan, Åre och Borgafjäll.
Tillsammans med våra pilotkunder kommer vi under det kommande året att vidareutveckla varje del av Scandinavian Domes – från materialval och hantverk till logistik, installation och långsiktig hållbarhet – inför den bredare marknadslanseringen 2027.