Team Florida's FleX House is a flexible, modular building system designed for a young, moderate-income couple in Florida's hot, humid, and sunny climate.

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A solar-powered house that performs in real time by sensing and responding to the generation and acquisition of energy.

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Designed to address residential needs in Hawaii's tropical climate, the University of Hawaii's semi-monocoque house, named Hale Pilihonua, is a sustainable and affordable solution for middle-income homebuyers.

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Re_home is designed for rapid assembly after a natural disaster. This solar-powered house demonstrates how environmentally aware living can be brought to the forefront of a community-led recovery effort.

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The University of Maryland's WaterShed draws inspiration from the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, connecting the landscape and the people who live in it. The house form provides a variety of indoor-outdoor living arrangements and gives flexibility to its inhabitants.

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4D Home integrates advanced technology through intuitive user interfaces, which are accessible to all ages and provide a balance between feedback and automation—ultimately teaching residents about their energy consumption and production.

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Appropriately titled after Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, Self Reliance is a modern twist on the New England farmhouse vernacular and features a gabled roof that efficiently sheds snow but is also familiar and helps people to identify it as a home.

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With its clean, simple lines and use of natural, low-maintenance materials, First Light puts a contemporary spin on the traditional Kiwi bach. Weather and climate are intertwined with the design philosophy of the First Light house to encourage an awareness of how to work with a changing climate rather than against it.

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The Ohio State University's enCORE presents a family-friendly solution to the world’s growing energy and residential needs.The layout revolves around a sophisticated central core that contains all of the house’s mechanical and plumbing systems.

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By taking a community-based approach to building, Empowerhouse offers a simple, affordable, ultra-efficient home that addresses all aspects of domestic life.

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The INhome—short for Indiana home—is an innovative, yet practical, house that meets the needs of a typical Midwestern consumer in today's cost-competitive residential market.

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The forms and spaces of Living Light were inspired by the cantilever barns of southern Appalachia, the systems in the dynamic façade and integrated roof array are scalable and tunable to a range of climates and applications.

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Unit 6 Unplugged draws its inspiration from passive environmental precedents found in a variety of dwellings in the Tidewater region of southeastern Virginia and creates a market-competitive, affordable, and localized approach to urban housing in-fill.

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