E+ is a Verdant South Korean Home Blanketed in Greenery and Solar Panels

Blanketed in vegetation and energy-harvesting PV panels, the <a href="http://www.dwell.com/articles/E-for-Effort.html#ixzz1qM50WfUr">E+ Green Home</a> doesn't just get an E for effort - it deserves to be on the honor roll of sustainable design. Seen in <a href="http://www.dwell.com/articles/E-for-Effort.html#ixzz1qM50WfUr">Dwell Magazine's April issue</a>, the home, which is located about an hour outside of Seoul, looks almost unreal, like the fantasy rendering of an eco-obsessed architecture student. But the residence, a collaboration between <a href="http://www.kolonconstruction.co.kr/eng/">Kolon Engineering and Construction</a> and <a href="http://www.usdspace.com/">Unsangdong Architects</a>, is not only real - it's a showcase of sustainable innovation and it may very well be the greenest home in South Korea.

Located in Kyeong-Gi, the E+ Green Home is a decidedly unique-looking home which also behaves differently from most homes in South Korea.

The house, which almost resembles a hill due to a large portion of its surface being covered in green roofs and vertical gardens, is a prototype built by Kolon.

The hope is that South Koreans, who've been growing increasingly less satisfied with concrete-clad apartments, will take a shine to the model home and decide they would like to live in a similar dwelling.

Though it's certainly attractive, the E+'s walls are much more than a pretty facade.

The solar panels, vegetated walls and other green technologies within allow the house to use just 27% of the energy that an average Korean home uses, and it also generates 38% of the energy used by the average Korean home.

If those numbers don't sound impressive to you, the house even lives up to super stringent German <a href="http://www.passivehouse.us/passiveHouse/PHIUSHome.html">Passive House standards</a>.

For now the E+, which is sited on the grounds of Kolon’s headquarters, doesn't have actual residents but those who want to get a feel for what it might be like to live in it can book overnight stays.

The hope is that the E+ will be the first of many similar green houses that Kolon plants to build across the country.