Solar Decathlon

Every other year, the U.S. Department of Energy holds a competition called the Solar Decathlon which asks architecture students to envision a self-sustaining space that is completely mobile (Design guidelines indicate that it must fit on the bed of a truck in order to be delivered to site (Washington DC in this case))

http://www.solardecathlon.gov/

Shipping Container

Everything you ever wanted to know about Shipping Container Architecture

Initial Ideas

I say we have a little of this:




mixed with this:



with the technicality of this:



and the spirit of this:




and the nerdiness of this: