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A Modernist, Sleek, Concrete Active & Passive Solar Home

September 25, 2011
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Built by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and the New Jersey Institute of Technology for the 2011 Solar Decathlon, the home comfortably inhabits the seemingly contradictory extemes of lightness and strength, practicality and sparse modernity.  Perhaps it’s the aestetics of the ‘floating roof’, a transparent band of glass that seemingly supports the...
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Team New Jersey’s Concrete Passive Solar “eNJoy” Home

June 16, 2011
Team New Jersey is using precast concrete with passive solar design for the 2011 Solar Decathlon.  Photo credit:

UPDATE: See the ENJOY house built for the 2011 Solar Decathlon.  The following is a review of the model. Rutgers University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology team up for their 2011 Solar Decathlon entry called “eNJoy!” The New Jersey team is using precast concrete as their main building material for their Solar Decathlon...
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