"Hedonistic Sustainabilitiy" as Architecture Re-Imagination

Bjarke Ingels provides some interesting angles on sustainability, proving that luxury does not have to be forfeited in order to make way for a healthier environment, a mentality that needs to be used more often as people don't respond well to the idea that 'our future is doomed' unless we change our ways. 

I am most interested in the ways that he is able to transform perceived negative environmental conditions into positive ones, such as his waste management plant / ski slope.

Here are some potential strategies I could look into in order to engage with an environmental issue in a similar way:

1) Choose a particular environmental element, such as air, water, earth, ect., and create an architecture that improves or gives back to the current condition (eg. Kevin Pu's thesis project, Architecture as an Urban Respiratory System), potentially among an already degraded condition.

2) Create a set of aesthetic principals that engage with current strategies of eco-friendly design, and aim to determine a way of moving forward with sustainable design that is somewhere in between the subtle LEED certified buildings, and off the grid "Eco-homes". Something that moves architectural design beyond the purpose of energy savings into more of a balance of showcasing sustainable strategies into an aesthetically pleasing design.