RhOME for denCity's Passive Solar Home Wins Grand Prize at Solar Decathlon Europe 2014
The RhOME for denCity team consists of professors and researchers from the Architecture, Business Studies and...
NCTU's Energy Efficient Evaporative Cooling Orchid House Wins Best Urban Design at Solar Decathlon Europe 2014
Given that the NCTU Unicode is based in Taiwan, a country notorious for its muggy and oppressive tropical summers,...
Pret-a-Loger's Home With a Skin of Solar Panels Wins Sustainability Prize at Solar Decathlon 2014
Instead of demolishing the house, which lacked space, comfort and consumed around 175 euro of energy each month,...
Solar Philéas: Modular Apartment Upgrade for 120-Year-Old French Building Wins Energy Efficiency Prize at Solar Decathlon Europe
The Cap 44 building is part of the city's heritage as one of the first reinforced concrete buildings in the world;...
Solar-Powered Techstyle Haus’ Futuristic Fabric Shell Drastically Reduces Energy Consumption
The 2014 Solar Decathlon Europe is an international competition that challenges 20 competing collegiate teams to...
Solar-Powered OnTop House Can be Added to the Top of Almost Any Urban Home
The team from University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt am Main took a unique approach to this year’s Solar Decathlon...
Chiba University's Post-Disaster Renai House Wins Second Place in Architecture at Solar Decathlon Europe 2014
Deeply affected by the Tohoku-Oki earthquake that decimated northeastern Japan in March 2011, the students of Chiba...
Solar Liv-Lib' Capsule Home is Powered by a Futuristic Energy-Generating Hub
The Liv-Lib' project consists of two elements: “hubs” and “habitation capsules.” The hubs are solar-powered...
Students Unveil Solar-Powered 'Rooftop House' for an Apartment Block in Berlin
The owners of the Altbau will invest to refurbish the rooftop and possibly replace old electrical appliances, fix...
Perfectly Passive Ressò House Wins Architecture Award at Solar Decathlon Europe 2014
Like a box within a box, the double height 81m2 communal space provides multifunctionality and adapts to form a...
Tiny 100% Solar-Powered Maison Reciprocity House Shines at the Solar Decathlon Europe
The home is based on designing row house neighborhoods that have a minimal environmental impact. Built as an affordable...
Danish Students' EMBRACE House for Two Boasts a Super Energy-Efficient Double Envelope
Students from the Technical University of Denmark designed the home for two by combining passive and active technological...
French Student Team Rhône-Alpes Wins the 2012 Solar Decathlon Europe With Canopea House!
The top six homes in the final results of the 2012 European Solar Decathlonare: 1. Canopea House by Team Rhône-Alpes 2....
Team Rhône-Alpes' Modular Canopea House Wins the Architecture and Operations Competitions of the Solar Decathlon Europe!
Both vertical and horizontal stacks of Canopea homes can produce nanotowers that respond to the dearth of urban...
Germany's Hemp-insulated ECOLAR House Scoops the Solar Decathlon Engineering Prize!
ECOLAR's basic construction, comprised of beams and columns, essentially stays the same but can be configured differently...