Worth Remembering…Columbia’s Involvement in the 2009 Solar Decathlon Home

The team’s entry captured and expressed architectural design that blends the beauty, simplicity, and passivity of various elements of historic Kentucky vernacular and local materials with modern active energy-efficient systems and technologies. The end product home was a combination of human-made and natural energy sources controllable by the house inhabitants to create the desired living conditions for all seasons and the almost complete integration of indoor-outdoor living spaces.

For those not familiar with Solar Decathlon projects, please click here for a previous post that describes them a little more at length.