GREENSTOP

Tulare, California

International design competition for a sustainable highway reststop

Competition Finalist

Thought of as a functional farmland, Greenstop harvests solar energy, composts human waste, is a clean landfill and orchard. It uses the earth as thermal protection and employs natural ventillation to avoid the use of mechanical systems. Its design recycles the previous parking lot pavement into its terrain and uses grass parking technology, all in an effort for the least possible impact on the environment and to create a unique experience of engaging the landscape that is otherwise simply driven over atop the asphalt.