What’s next? Service, Beauty and Truth
- Alex Pepn
- Aug 4
- 4 min read
By Alex the Builder Philosopher
3 August 2025
Looking ahead, I want to share where I’m going next and the projects that excite me the most.
Each one is different on the surface, but they’re all connected by the same vision: to create work that elevates people, reconnects them to themselves, and leaves the world better than it was.
1. Serving clients who want to design and build at the deepest level.
I’m looking for clients who want to design and build a property, cottage, or cabin that’s in harmony with who they are—a place that speaks to their unique subconscious needs. A home designed with purpose, beauty, and truth. A sanctuary where they can feel awe, peace, and rejuvenation.
My A-Frame is living proof that this concept is possible. You instantly feel the difference when you cross its threshold. I want to use what I’ve learned to push this idea of stellar architecture, designing homes that resonate with personal energy.
I only plan to build one or two projects a year, because I want each one to be fully intentional.
2. Make Art Great Again
My 180 lb carved doors were a small proof of concept—and people seemed to love them (or maybe they were just being polite, lol). Now, I’m exploring ways to create visually powerful architectural elements that add depth, texture, and character to a home.
Custom doors, ceilings, lighting, furniture, and walls are next on my list. Why settle for boring drywall when we can create scenes, landscapes, or mandalas born from sacred geometry—pieces that inspire, calm, and even heal?
If you’re interested in creating something wild, unique, and maybe even “impossible,” I’m ready.
3. Creating a durable and healthy clothing brand for workers
This might sound scattered compared to my other projects, but it’s not. I’m simply trying to solve a problem I face myself.
Most brands have shifted to cheap fabrics and toxic recycled plastics—while keeping prices high. Clothes fall apart in months. Remember that old pair of jeans that could survive a whole summer on a 15-year-old’s spending his day at the skatepark? That’s what I want again, and I know I’m not alone.
I want to create clothing that’s durable, affordable, and better for your health, using fabrics that resonate with the frequencies humans lived with for thousands of years—not the chemical mess we wear now.
I’m working on prototypes and have some strong marketing ideas, but I can’t devote full attention to this right now. If anyone out there is interested in partnering up, you know where to find me.
4. Keep growing and exploring consciousness
I’ll keep diving into the exploration of human consciousness through reading, observation, and advanced meditation. There’s so much out there that has been dismissed by mainstream science because it lacks “evidence” or doesn’t fit into a fear-based narrative. Sometimes, the only evidence we need is within ourselves.
As we race toward general artificial intelligence, we still barely understand what consciousness even is. When does it appear? Is it everywhere, in everything?
We’re already integrating with machines, glued to our smartphones, slowly losing touch with the human experience. Are we losing the divine light within ourselves, the fundamentals and convergent meaning behind so many religious texts?
Life always finds a way. Human consciousness is its highest known form of organization. Will AI become the next frontier of consciousness—the catalyst evolution uses to lift matter to a higher state of being?
5. Build a playful healing retreat
I’m searching for land to build a small community of a dozen short-term rental units. This retreat will be my testing ground—a chance to play with unique methods and material while bringing my concepts to life in unexpected and immersive ways.
Most people can’t afford bespoke architectural art, but this will allow them to experience it. To live in spaces designed to awaken curiosity, joy, and self-knowledge.
The retreat will be playful and beautiful on the surface, but for those interested, it will offer subtle tools for self-development.
The ultimate goal? That guests leave in a better state of health and inner balance than when they arrived.
I’ll keep experimenting with how the spaces we inhabit affect how we feel, live, and think.
If this sparks your curiosity and you’d like to collaborate, reach out.
6. A book
Humans used to build with inspiration, from the inside out. We designed homes not to impress others, but to reflect who we were.
The spaces we inhabit mirror the souls we grow. And right now, in this post-brutalist era, I can only shake my head.
As society becomes ever more “orderly,” our environments have become lifeless reflections of that order. Condo towers, soulless art, monochrome palettes, cars that all look the same. Another few decades of this, and we’ll be living in identical 3D-printed boxes with walls like cardboard.
It’s ironic: diversity is celebrated more than ever, yet everything looks the same.
I want to change that.
I want to help people reclaim their individuality—to create spaces that appeal to their subconscious needs and unique psychological profiles.
I already have a lot of material written, but I’m still deciding how deep to go. Should it be a simple book helping people design spaces aligned with their psychology? Or should I take the reader deeper—into the origins of our archetypes, where they come from, and how they shape a better life?
7. Continue mastering stillness and presence, and give my little family all the love they can handle
Because at the end of the day, that’s what all this is for.
I’m not chasing volume or speed. My focus is depth—working with people and on projects that matter. Whether it’s one home, one retreat cabin, or one book, the goal is the same: to bring more meaning, beauty, and authenticity into the world.
If something you read here resonates with you, maybe that’s for a reason. Maybe we’re meant to cross paths.
So here’s my invitation: If you’re ready to create something intentional—something alive—reach out.



