Ecole de Technologie Superiore, Universite de Montreal, McGill University
The Canadians were pretty proud of their yellow box. It was at the center of the house three Montreal schools teamed up to build and is where all the magic happens for the automated electronics and temperature controlled via computer on the adjacent counter top.
Outside, the house is truly green, with a rooftop lawn for a cooling effect in summer and a wall of plants surrounding a window to take in carbon-dioxide free air. Dried birch on the exterior provided a balance with the steel-frame construction visible from inside and used to hold storage shelves in the living room. Unlike some of the modular plans used by other schools, this team started from scratch, which is probably why they were still bustling around in hard hats during the tour.
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