This thesis explores the relationship between experiential and scientific approaches to sustainability and the architectural approaches to the hot-button issue. It will provide an example of how an environment can encourage participation in sustainable futures and how architecture may invite these sustainable decisions. Through the typology of student housing, this 70,000 square foot project will utilize some of the first independent years of a young adults life to lead to a better-understood relationship between students and their place in the world. The design will be catered towards Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with hopes of further influence in the field of sustainable student living. Students are the future and it is essential that they understand and work towards a more environmentally sound tomorrow.