An award-winning residential design that produces as much energy as it uses!

School of Architecture

A multi-unit residential design that produces as much energy as it uses — a net-zero proposal — that could serve as an affordable housing prototype in northern Vietnam earned two awards in the Solar Decathlon, a nationwide design contest sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Students in all three departments of the Texas A&M School of Architecture teamed with students in the Hanoi University of Civil Engineering in Vietnam to create the design, which earned a fourth-place finish and a Te…