Another nice and eco-friendly solar home was designed for Solar Decathlon 2009. This time around, it is a well-designed solar home from team Germany. Currently placed at third, team Germany’s solar home has four simple modules making the house easy to construct. This stylish and energy saving home comes with a multi-use room located at …
Built 16 meter above the ground, the ground Heinz Legler was able to create a wonderful and refreshing tree house like structure called the V-houses. With a size of 16 by 16 feet, the V-houses still looks spacious with its slanted ceiling and open walls. The sides are widely open that offer a panoramic views …
Housing becomes one of the problems in cities around the globe. That is why many of the designers are now designing houses that can be built in the water and the House on the Water by Formodesign is one of a great example. This proposal has eco-friendly features like the water desalination, energy accumulation, ventilation …
The Refract House is an 800 square foot zero energy home created by a hundred of students from Santa Clara University together with the California College of Arts in participation to the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The refract house has a designed like a bent tube to allow the entry of light inside …
The R-House is an amazing design that is completely self-sufficient. It is made of sustainable non-toxic wood and is installed with photovoltaic solar panels and wind turbines. The house is pre-fabricated and assembled. It has photovoltaic cells and vertical axis wind turbines that will fulfill the entire energy requirements of the house. In addition, a …
Self-sustainability and green is now the most common concept every designer has in their minds. Various green and eco-friendly products are now coming out in the market; many of our fellowmen are now enjoying the benefits of living green and saving large amount of energy consumption. Joining the green loving people are the designers of …
Global Green is rebuilding New Orleans, and is working out to get the LEED Platinum certification. To get this, they have created an eco-friendly houses and apartments for their villagers, and this project is called The Holy Cross Project. They have built five affordable homes and an 18-unit apartment building. In addition to that, the …
Architect Rafael Viñoly has designed the Battersea Power station that will lessen the need of air-conditioning due to its solar driven natural ventilation system. This power station is the most advanced sustainable development ever to b built in London. Through the use of natural ventilation of the building, this will going to be the cleanest …
Everybody is now using a mobile phone as a means of communication and entertainment, and mobile phones are rechargeable and is claiming about one to two percent of the household’s power consumption. Gotwind has found a solution for the recharging issue of the mobile phones, and has come out to a project called the Gotwind …
One of the biggest components of a household’s high energy usage is the hot water used in washing machines. People’s only solution to save energy is washing in cold water. But Electrolux discovered a different solution on this matter. They have introduced to the market the new Electrolux Sunny solar water front loader that caters …
