Team Maryland won the 2011 Solar Decathlon with a super cool single family home design called the “Watershed”. This project is a perfect example what can be accomplished with great and thoughtful design and cutting edge construction methods – to achieve a highly efficient and sustainable single family home. Solar Decathlon Director Richard King said, “Maryland’s Watershed is a beautiful house, judged first place in Architecture, which also performed impeccably in measured contests. This team mastered their strategies to ensure they excelled in all 10 contests,” according to the DOE.
Some of the homes’ features include a solar thermal wall, a garden, and edible wall system, green roof system and a modular constructed wetland that helps filter and recycle greywater from the shower, clothes washer, and dishwasher. The interior has two liquid desiccant waterfall systems for humidity control and a home automation system. To check it out in detail, check out their website (link above) or go to http://www.solardecathlon.gov/
You can find more pictures and videos on team Maryland’s website here.
