A sustainable house design by students that is practical and beautiful

Studio 804 is a building program by some students at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning. They came up with a design for a single-family residence in the Rosedale neighborhoodof Kansas City tha will act as a prototype for the region. This building will be able to route energy back through the electric grid. During the day time a 600 sq foot rooftop solar array and a residential wind turbine will send energy back to the electrical grid. And when its night, it switches to the public utility system. Less power, lesser bills.

The house has a vertical wood rain screen made of South American FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) hardwood, it has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half bath residence featuring a double-height west wall which floods the space with filtered daylight via sunscreens and insulated rolling shades and offers views to a forest preserve removed of any planned commercial or residential development. It is practical and yet wonderful.
[WorldArchitectureNews]