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Solar Decathlon Sustainable House Design by Technische Universität Darmstadt

A sustainable house design has been designed by students of the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany which have won them the Solar Decathlon competition. The winning design is a two-storey, cube-shaped building covered in two types of solar cells, is highly insulated and has automated lourve window shades to reduce unwanted heat-gain.

Lake Huron Floating House by MOS Architects

Lake Huron Floating House by MOS Architects

The duo architects in MOS, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample has a challenging task yet successfully accomplished in Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada. Their project intersects a vernacular house typology with the site-specific conditions of this unique place, which is an island on Lake Huron.