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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.

Eco Friendly Solar Decathlon House Design

Eco Friendly Solar Decathlon House Design

On going with the global warming issues, the Department of Energy at Cornell University ran a competition which invited architects to come up with eco friendly energy efficient home ideas. One of the contestants, Zero Energy Design (ZED) pumped their best effort which resulted a Solar Decathlon House in Ithaca, New York.