Passive House for New Orleans - Competition Winner - sustainable.TO

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on May 13, 2011 10:06 AM
DesignByMany and media partner ArchDaily are pleased to announce the "Low Cost, Low Energy House" by sustainable.TO as the winning design for the Passive House for New Orleans competition. The competition challenged both students and professionals to design a passive house for New Orleans focusing on key components of The Passive House Standard and the 2030 Challenge which has influenced the Better Buildings Initiative issued by President Obama.

We always like to keep things exciting here at sustainable.TO, and this one was close right down to the end:

Voting for the New Orleans Passive House contest, hosted by DesignByMany, was open for a few weeks. Readers and architecture enthusiasts from around the globe had opportunities to view and vote on their favourite projects. To the voters, family, and friends close to home: thanks so much for your support!

While our project received plenty of positive feedback (one competitor even commented that he liked our entry better than his) we unfortunately were not ranked in the top ten when public voting closed a couple of days ago. Nevertheless, judges at DesignByMany chose our project, along with a few others, as one of their favourites to also be considered for the top prize in the final round of judging. Our project (see the full brief) was such a hit with all of the judges that we were named the winner this morning! Check out the full press release.

Congrats to the team, all the other competition finalists, and DesignByMany for hosting such a great competition.

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