The students of team TU Delft developed a revolutionary concept for a sustainable house. For our design we combine floating and sun wise rotation with a home - the ReVolt House. Floating
The reasons to do a floating house is related to the sheer amount of water available in the Netherlands. There are plans to do whole neighborhoods floating on water. We would like to contribute to that and additio
nally show how to solve that in a sustainable way where the water/landscape aspect gets tightly interwoven with the architecture and energy concept of our house. Rotating
The house will rotate along the sun path because of climatic and energy aspects. In general this is the guiding mechanisms of the rotation but this can be influenced by the inhabitants. Therefore they have the possibility to i.e. wake up bathed in morning light or dine during the sun set while having a beautiful vista. Effects
Since water reflects the sun rays we further expect having a great impact on the interior of the house in terms of daylight availability but also atmosphere. We aim to combine sustainability, low energy consumption, movement and special landscape features into a unique lifestyle and design. With this special set of features we are confident to win the Solar Decathlon 2012.
