Groot's definition of co-housing involves people, plants, and wildlife co-inhabiting. In Groot, public and private living spaces are weaved together through a public-private partnership park as a site with public services nestled throughout. The units are designed through domestic gardens and plant observatories to support and make visible the studying, experimenting, and applying of plant, bacteria and animal knowledge. The inhabiting plants engage spatially too by shading and providing privacy in bathrooms through algae growth in the glass walls. Living styles are also influenced as Groot seasonally expands or contracts -- introspective in winter and communal in summer.