Visualizing a Living Building

This paper will chronicle the design process of the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia and its objective to accomplish Living Building™ certification. In order to accomplish this, the architect (BNIM) and project partners applied Triple Bottom Line thinking, an Integrated Design Process and Life Cycle Analysis. The author, a member of the design team, will focus on the variety of representation techniques used and their roles within this design process pursuing Living Building™ status.