With Greensburg beginning to rebuild, our sustainable prototype is subject to multiple uses for the community, including a sustainable residence and gallery space. The diversity in program for the sustainable prototype is due to the nature of the community’s circumstances; without the infrastructure to support a true commercial space, and lacking the population to support a downtown residence, functionality and adaptability of space within our project became essential. 

As such, the program of the sustainable prototype is modeled to provide the ideal sustainable residence while at the same time providing adequate space to support a small scale commercial program.  Ultimately, this prototype is an educational tool for a community in the process of rebuilding their city, with environmentally friendly practices displayed for guidance; program, at this level, become almost secondary to the true intent of the project – to define and articulate what sustainable architecture can become. 

With the owner an advocate for sustainability and the arts, the sustainable prototype must primarily function as a gallery.  In this role, the sustainable prototype acts as a community arts center to raise awareness of fine arts, both visual and performing.  This ideal allows arts to be accessible to everyone and provides an environment to create and gather knowledge about the arts. The arts are important to the community of Greensburg in order to maintain and cultivate their identity, their heritage, and their culture.