663 S. Cooper may be home to archimania, an architecture firm in Memphis, TN, but that’s just one detail of this unassuming (yet inviting) building on S. Cooper St. What started as the remodel of a pair of midcentury buildings and a tenacious goal of achieving zero carbon, zero energy, blossomed into something much bigger: the making of a connected, carbon-neutral corridor.

See how this team of archimaniacs proved the model for achieving zero carbon, zero energy on a budget, and how they’re working to inspire community, connection and carbon neutrality along a three-mile stretch of Cooper St. in midtown Memphis.