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Living Building Challenge

The Living Building

✨ BEAUTY · LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE PETAL 7 “It slows you down. It gets you to look around… and appreciate where you are.” The final Petal in the Living Building Challenge is perhaps the most essential — and the most human. Beauty isn’t ornamental. It’s intentional. It asks us to pause, feel, and connect. 📍Set on 93 acres of rolling Badlands, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library doesn’t dominate the landscape — it disappears into it. Designed by Snøhetta, the building curves like the hi

💧 WATER · LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE PETAL 2 “We use the water. We reuse the water. We return the water.” At the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, water isn’t wasted — it’s respected. To meet the Living Building Challenge, our campus must be net positive for water — capturing, conserving, cleaning, and returning water to the landscape as purely as we found it. 🏞️ We’ve built our own on-site wastewater treatment system. 💧 We reuse greywater up to 100 times before it returns to the earth.

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