Creating a symbiotic relationship between a home and its surrounding environment is crucial to supporting the health and welfare of natural environments around residential areas. This prototype home design explores the connection between the built environment and the natural world around us. GreenScape promotes sustainability through the orientation of the home to control active and passive solar energy, application of a green roof for water storage and conservation, solar energy for power, electrochromic smart glass for solar radiation control, energy-efficient appliances, as well as renewable materials used throughout the home. Sustainable practices, biophilic elements, and our connection to the natural world is at the forefront of this residential design in order to combat rising environmental issues surrounding energy inefficiencies in the built environment.

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GreenScape is a sustainable prototype home design built in Seattle, Washington. This residential design applies several sustainable technologies and applications in order to create a LEED certified home. Protecting, conserving, and reflecting the natural environment is the main focus of this eco-friendly design. The interior of the home draws inspiration from Scandinavian design and minimalism to create a home that conveys simplicity, biophilic elements, and an overall sense of calm through nature. Renewable and eco-friendly materials will be incorporated throughout the design and construction of the home to impact the environment as little as possible. In all, the GreenScape prototype home works to provide an alternative to normal housing construction and applications in order to promote sustainability and preserve our natural environment.