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📋 Description
What is Maslow
Formations
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Maslow Formations is our regenerative building and fabrication branch. We create off-grid structures, tools, and products that enable people to live simply, beautifully, and autonomously — from mobile tiny homes to compost stations, solar kitchens to worm farms.
👓 Overview
🏡 Off Grid Structures
Maslow Formations is our regenerative building and fabrication branch. We create off-grid structures, tools, and products that enable people to live simply, beautifully, and autonomously — from mobile tiny homes to compost stations, solar kitchens to worm farms.
📬 Contact: formations@maslow.eco for enquiries.
Every structure is a seed — a formation in the great redesign of human life.
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This is our modular tiny house prototype we built in 2024. We are working with a factory in Paarl to produce these units. |
🛠️ What We Are Setting Up To Build
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🏡 Off-Grid Tiny Homes | Fully modular, solar-ready, net-zero designs |
🔋 Infrastructure Pods | Battery boxes, solar stations, utility trailers |
🪱 Living Systems Modules | Compost toilets, worm farms, greywater showers |
🍽️ Outdoor Amenities | Kitchens, washing stations, fold-out dining decks |
🪑 Landscape Furniture | Artistic benches, shaded desks, tool storage |
Each item is designed for real-world deployment — beauty meets function.
🌍 Why It Matters
“If we want a different future, we need different tools.”
Most housing is unaffordable, immobile, or energy-intensive
DIY off-grid solutions are often clunky or inaccessible
Tools for regeneration are scattered, unstandardised, or poorly made
Even regenerative spaces lack unified, practical, scalable design
Formations solves this by offering:
Modular, prefab structures that deploy anywhere
Cohesive design logic across Maslow branches
Durable, field-tested builds for real-world use
🧑🏭 Who It’s For
🛠 Builders & Makers – Wanting to join or replicate our designs
🏕 Off-Grid Seekers – Looking for functional, beautiful shelter
🌱 Landowners & Communities – Needing plug-and-play infrastructure
🧑🎓 Regenerative Schools – Wanting hands-on learning structures
🚚 Maslow Divisions – In need of rapid-deploy assets
🎁 Products
What does Maslow
Formations
do?
Homes
Clip-together tiny living.
Bedroom pods, bath cores, kitchen bridges—each factory-built on skids, delivered plug-and-play, and movable as life evolves.
This product / page is in development
Furniture
Storage in every step.
Stair-drawers, fold-down desks, and transformable couches engineered for small footprints and crafted from reclaimed hardwoods.
This product / page is in development
Sanitation
Flush the old paradigm.
Odor-free, urine-diverting toilet inserts that slot into our bath pods or retrofit existing bathrooms—turning waste into worm-ready substrate.
This product / page is in development
Circularity
Circular systems that close the loop on waste.
Grease traps, worm baths, back of house laundry and bin shoots, grey-water irrigation to nearby banana circles and grow beds, concealed waste stations shipped as modular units to close the loop behind the scenes.
This product / page is in development
📜 History
Jaydon Meidlinger and Bernard Myburgh met at Geoff Lawton's PDC in South Africa in 2022. Jaydon is an architect and has built the tiny house he lives in with his family. We realised after a few conversations how aligned we were, and we just knew we had to get started even though we didn't have all the answers.
When we started this mission on October 1st 2023, we had a simple question: how do we solve for human needs sustainably? What even are human needs? How do meet human needs to such a point that people can live with zero cost of living in balance and harmony with nature, not just surviving but thriving in abundance. No more job just to earn money just to keep paying for your survival long enough to keep doing the job, so that you can pay to keep surviving, etc etc. What structures and tools do we need to build community and go off-grid for real. (Okay, so a few questions. And I guess they're not simple.) But we knew it had something to do with solving for Shelter (which has now become "🏡 Formations") and Food (Which starts with the soil, and has now become "♻️ GroundSwell".
How do we make shelter that is affordable, transportable, modular and extremely liveable and resilient. We settled on a few designs and got to work:
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Building this prototype was exactly what we needed to do in order to make all the mistakes of developing a product for the market. We want to be able to build tiny houses for our friends and family and for anyone looking to start their journey back to nature. A solid structure to land in. Something we can build in a factory that scales and brings the cost per unit down, allowing people to settle into nature, into food abundant landscapes in a comfortable lasting way, allowing them to scale down their energy use and slow down their busy lives.
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We are in the process of standardising the modular units and will soon add them to the Formations dashboard, stay tuned!