Image 28 of 30 from gallery of Solar Decathlon 2013: Team Austria Wins Top Honors. [1] North Patio [2] Living Space [3] South Patio [4] Mechanical Room [5] Bathroom [6] Bedroom. Image
Ready to test your creativity, ingenuity, and passion for designing highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by renewable energy? The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® 2020 Design Challenge is ready for you! With the release of the Solar Decathlon 2020 Competition Guide, interested collegiate institutions can find detailed information on how to apply for […]
Our pick of the winning and best entries from this year's international competition to design and build functional solar-powered houses, held in Versailles, France. Photographs by Lucien Lung
Lisa and Matt Gunneson currently bought the solar-powered MiSo House and are moving it piece by piece to their property to be used as a permanent home.
UPDATE: See the Watershed home in all its glory at the 2011 Solar Decathlon. This home placed 1st in the Solar Decathlon, also winning the Architecture category along the way. The original review of the model follows below. - For the upcoming 2011 Solar Decathlon, the team from the University of Maryland, College Park, is striving
Image 1 of 1 from gallery of Team Germany wins Solar Decathlon 2009. © Jim Tetro, U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.
PHOTOS: Amazing Solar Houses Of The Future
PV arrays for New York City College of Technology at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 at the Orange County Great Park, Irvine, California (Credit: Thomas Kelsey/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon)
Image 25 of 41 from gallery of AIR House / Czech Technical University. Photograph by AIR House - Solar Decathlon Team Czech Republic
Team UOW from the University of Wollongong in Australia has been awarded first place at the 2013 Solar Decathlon Chin...
Does solar increase home value? Yes. The question is - by how much? We explain the factors and how taxes and home selling is affected.
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Built by in Hoboken, United States with date 2013. Images by Ecohabit - Solar Decathlon Team Stevens Institute of Technology. This "L-shaped" energy smart house by the Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT), dubbed Ecohabit, won second place in...
Completed in 2013 in . Images by Jason Flakes/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, Martin Cenek, Team CTU, AIR House - Solar Decathlon Team Czech Republic. Lauded for incorporating warm, natural wood finishes to create a “comfortable place to dwell and reenergize,” the jury of the 2013 Solar Decathlon...
When designing for sustainability, passive solar design with water walls for heat storage are rarely used to their full potential.
the modular solar house offers a wooden adaptable and comfortable energy-positive dwelling for the future.
Students of the University of Maryland are ramping up for the 2011 Solar Decathlon competition with their solar home, WaterShed.
The Solar Decathlon team from Romania has designed PRISPA - a simple solar-powered home that produces 20% more energy than it uses.
Image 14 of 19 from gallery of UrbanEden / UNC Charlotte. Photograph by UrbanEden - Solar Decathlon Team UNC Charlotte
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a great opportunity for college students to get hands-on experience with the design and construction of houses and solar PV systems. The collegiate competition—happening in Denver, Colorado at the time of publication—challenges student teams to design and build full-size, energy-efficient houses powered exclusively by solar energy. The […]
the modular solar house offers a wooden adaptable and comfortable energy-positive dwelling for the future.
Características arquitectónicas y técnicas de Sumbiosi, la casa solar del equipo ABC (Francia) en el SolarDecathlon 2012. Interior adaptable, sistemas pasivos y activos.
The winners of the 2007 Solar Decathlon are at it again, this time with their butterfly-roofed WaterShed house. The University of Maryland team have modeled their project after the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem.
RISE significa "Residential, Inviting, Stackable, Efficient", los conceptos clave que han dado lugar a este proyecto que pretende proporcionar una vivienda asequible a la vez que confortable en ciudades superpobladas, como es el caso de Richmond, California, zona para la cual fue ideada, aunque la propuesta es extensible a otras ciudades de similares características.
the modular solar house offers a wooden adaptable and comfortable energy-positive dwelling for the future.
Imagen 19 de 26 de la galería de "La Casa Uruguaya" gana el Solar Decathlon América Latina y el Caribe 2015. Esquema
A student-led team from Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) in New Jersey has won the 2015 Solar Decathlon with a “Coastal Home of the Future" -...
Virginia Tech garnered the first price for LUMENHAUS, their design of cutting edge responsive architecture. The 10-day inaugural Solar Decathlon...
Image 5 of 9 from gallery of The Meridian First Light House, Solar Decathlon / Team Victoria University of Wellington. © First Light house