An abundance of glass in the windows and doors allows natural light to flow throughout all of the rooms while low-emission characteristics of the glass material help block the accompanying heat from the sun. An indoor, glass-enclosed walkway behind the courtyard connects the bedroom and bathroom to the kitchen and living room of the home. Mojave Bloom was designed around a central outdoor courtyard that divided the home into two partitions. These triggers could result from rapid environmental changes of sound, light, shadow, room temperature, air flow and color perception, as well as lack of sleep. ADA best practices for wheelchair access, service animal accommodations, bathroom and shower layout, lighting, kitchen appliances, cabinets, door handles, plumbing fixtures and other recommendations provided helpful considerations.įurther research turned up other design models, such as “prospect and refuge,” that attempted to minimize sudden triggers of emotional reactions during mental health states of hyper-awareness, depression, disconnection or isolation. military.īuilding design guidelines provided through the Americans with Disabilities Act federal programs were an initial template to the architectural design team. More than 10 percent of residents in this region had served in the U.S. The UNLV solar decathlon team reached out to local veteran communities in Southern Nevada for feedback. Their commitment and resilience have been really inspiring.” “Despite everything, they are still doing enormously important work. “The hardest part has been the effects of the pandemic on supply chains,” said Weber about the challenges to his student team. Other members of the UNLV team were veterans of the U.S. UNLV Professor Eric Weber, the principal investigator from the UNLV School of Architecture, is a veteran of the Desert Storm conflict, where he served in the U.S.
There are new playbooks in this climate fight: on energy efficiency, on renewable energy, modernizing the grid, de-carbonizing the building sector, de-carbonizing the transportation sector, and de-carbonizing the industrial sector.”ĭuring 2018, an interdisciplinary team of students at UNLV began the design and construction of Mojave Bloom, a high-performance home that could also serve as a nurturing shelter for returning military veterans who might be suffering from the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries. “We’ve got all these individual contests to get through like you did. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm during the awards ceremony. “Our fight against the climate crisis is a lot like the decathlon,” said U.S. The UNLV team placed third in the contest, that was sponsored by the U.S. (Lonnie Timmons III UNLV Photo Services)Ī team of students and faculty from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas competed against eight other international university teams during a Solar Decathlon Build Challenge from April 16-18. The entry came in third place in the Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition. The final design is 'post-agrarian,' a reminder of a future without farms.Architecture students Stephanie Cote and Danica Dasmarinas, center, help build Mojave Bloom, a high-performance home. The circular shapes of the house reflect the silos that dot the rolling hills of upstate New York, which served as the primary design inspiration for the team. The Silo House is a modular structure with three interconnecting cylindrical rooms. The Silo House, built in 2009 for the biennial Solar Decathlon Competiton in Washington, D.C., was Cornell University's third and final entry to the Solar Decathlon Competition. Honoring their commitment to raise public awareness, the team members worked with Ithaca city schools to introduce students to solar energy and energy efficiency. The different perspectives that came into building our first project sowed the first seeds for potentially doing a larger quantity and wider range of projects.Ī unique feature of the Cornell house is the 'Light Canopy,' a streamlined framework of steel trusses that support a PV system, evacuated tubes for water and space heating, and vegetated latticework panels called 'greenscreens' that provide shade in summer. For night time, the team used compact fluorescent bulbs wiht an energy consumption of 15 to 30 watts throughout the house. The CUSD plan for the sustainable house design was unique as it combined architectural elements to allow daylight to fill the house despite the time of day.
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