The GreenLink will be a green roof covering the Link Gallery, a glassed-in exhibition space connecting the Krannert Art Museum to the Art + Design building. The project will be student-driven as to designing and sustaining the green roof. The project includes a rainwater collection system to sustain the green roof as well as two existing gardens located on either side of the Link Gallery. The rainwater collection system will allow us to harvest a natural resource and use it effectively, thereby cutting our current water use. The green roof will passively help cool the glassed space in the summer and help insulate the roof in the winter, and will be a visible outcome of the student sustainability funds.

The garden will be located on the roof of the Link Gallery. It is the connecting gallery space between the Krannert Art Museum and the School of Art + Design. The Krannert is two stories tall, A+D is three stories tall and the Link Gallery is one story. This location is significant because it symbolically and physically links our two units. It is primarily used as a space for students to exhibit work, but also serves as a social gathering space for student, campus, and community functions. In addition, the Link Gallery’s shared entrance w/ the museum means that the green roof will be visible to the museum’s many visitors, including local schoolchildren on class field trips. The roof of the Link can be easily viewed from many buildings on campus. Its highly visible location would serve as an ideal
means of promoting the work by the Student Sustainability Committee