Though Serenbe is a highly planned community—complete with a spa, playhouse, and an inn—residents are granted flexibility in determining the architectural style of their own homes.
By Meredith Swinehart
Atlanta civil engineers Teresa and Chad Epple are accustomed to thinking deep thoughts about airports and parking lots and pedestrian byways. So when their firm signed on as the engineers of record for the budding hamlet of Serenbe, Georgia—a “new urban” village with its own organic farm, preserved forests, and miles of nature trails, the couple knew a good thing when they saw it—they soon bought land to make it their own.