A sustainable prefab house was designed by Studio H:T. It was completely built in 2010, in Nederland, Colorado. It was designed to be supported by several sustainable features to achieve high sustainability and high energy efficiency.
HGTV Green Home is a sustainable home located in Serenbe, Georgia, designed by Kemp Hall Studio and built by FrontPorch Builders. It is projected to achieve EarthCraft and LEED Certifications. The home takes place in the same area of 1,000-acre sustainable development near Atlanta with green homes, shops, and restaurants.
This is a showhouse built by Effect Home Builders, located in Belgravia neighborhood of Edmonton. This house actually is a sustainable house, with net-zero energy. With its sustainable features, this house may provide high energy efficiency, and reducing the need of fossil fuel.
Located on the hills of Santa Lucia Preserve, Feldman Architecture designed a green architecture building, named Caterpillar House. This sustainable home becomes the only LEED Platinum house on the central coast of California. Some sustainable features were applied for this building.
Greenhalgh House is a sustainable home designed by CCS Architecture , located in the Alpine Meadows area near Lake Tahoe, California. Actually this is a second home for the owner, Todd Greenhalgh, who needs an efficiency of the house’s performance and the view, regarding the needs of a retreat home.
A sustainable architecture building has been designed by Comfort Architecten. It is a modern house for a family lives in Toblach, Italia. It is called Wohnhaus Planit C, this house is also completed with several sustainable features to maximize the energy efficiency. The beautiful view of surroundings becomes a good added value.
A beautiful and eco friendly design of home was made by Anastasia Architects, an architectural firm from Brazil. It is located in Nova Lima, Brazil, built in a sloped site. The design accommodated the principle of eco construction and powered by alternative energy. It was built based on 4 concepts : little interference in the site, better use of natural resources, integration to the surroundings, and a generous urban presence.
There are a lot of sustainable designs who concern about alternative energy, especially solar panel technology in this year Solar Decathlon. This one is different, the WaterShed House submitted by University of Maryland. This kind of sustainable architecture concerns in water conservation. With some eco friendly concepts included, the design wins Solar Decathlon 2011.
