Team Rhone-Alpes from Ecole National Supérieure d’architecture de Grenoble, France has won the Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 in Madrid with its entry of Canopea, a part of a larger bunch of vertically grouped modular homes called “nanotowers,” according to an article on Mother Nature Network. The home’s design is inspired by sun-absorbing, rainwater-catching tree canopies and is the team’s architectural response to the lack of housing space in urban areas across France.
Canopea took first place honors in the architecture component of the competition as well as in the innovation, house functioning and comfort conditions contests. Bravo!
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