Living Building Challenge: Place | Building With the Land in the North Dakota Badlands

What does it mean to build with the land instead of on it?

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is pursuing the Living Building Challenge, the world’s most rigorous sustainability standard. The first Petal—Place—asks how buildings can belong to their landscape.

Located in the Badlands of North Dakota, the Library is designed to work with the terrain rather than impose upon it. Prairie restoration, regenerative landscape design, and thoughtful architecture allow the building to become part of the ecosystem that surrounds it.

More than a building, the Library becomes part of the land that shaped Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation legacy.

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