Green Inside and Out
Vulcan Real Estate recently made space available at the South Lake Union Discovery Center to temporarily house this Living Building classroom designed by Method Homes in partnership with the green building nonprofit SEED Collaborative. The project was influenced by a group of high school students from Jasper, Alberta who wanted to integrate the Living Building Challenge into their high school, which was being rebuilt. Told it would be too expensive, the students came to the Living Futures Unconference in 2012, where they met the founders of SEED, who were inspired to work on this portable, self-sustaining classroom.
When the students called it a Living Classroom, they were being partly literal, since one of the interior walls is very much alive. In addition to attending this years Living Future Unconference to share their experience, the students are also raising the $50k they need to transport the structure to their hometown in Canada.
If all the world's a stage, where's the audience sitting? Send ideas and suggestions todees.stribling@bisnow.com
