Queen’s News Centre
Students from the Queen’s Solar Design Team (QSDT) have won the first-ever Home Sweet Home Student Challenge, a provincial sustainable home design competition.
“We wanted to design a home that was beautiful, very simplistic, and required very low energy input,” says team member Adrian Brett (School of Urban and Regional Planning). “We wanted to go back to that 1800s rustic feel by using rustic materials.”
The students dubbed their house the NatuReal House, a home composed wholly of renewable and recycled materials. Elements of the design include everything from natural sources of heat, including large windows and a wood pellet stove, to efficient water management and ventilation systems. The group’s design was named the best of the 10-entry field. Click here to read more.
