Goals

The model home design will be a catalyst for a sustainable lifestyle by achieving the following:

It will inspire its inhabitants by providing them with a great connection to nature and a healthy living environment. A greater appreciation for any positive element is developed through connection and interaction. The greater the interaction, the greater the appreciation. By incorporating nature and healthy design into the home’s experiences, its occupants will likely from a stronger relationship with both resulting in a greater feeling of satisfaction towards their homes.

It will provide thoughtfully designed spaces that have been thoroughly considered in terms of use and livability. By creating a living environment with more emphasis on person-environment interactions its occupants will experience greater comfort, more efficient functional capabilities, and an enhanced quality of home life. Happiness depends more on the ability to have good daily experiences than it does on anything else. A home should encourage such experiences. When people are happy they are more likely to partake in activities that benefit themselves, others, and their environments.

It will offer spaces that make sustainable habits, actions, and behaviors manageable and user-friendly. There is no question that many Americans desire a more sustainable lifestyle. Because “where you are influences who you are and what you’ll do” (Gallagher 32) a home should be designed to positively affect the actions of its occupants. A space can be counterproductive in terms if a person’s growth toward becoming who they want to be or it can be catalytic.