Versailles – Italy may have lost on the football field this year, but it just won the world championship of energy efficiency, innovation, sustainability and beauty. RhOME for denCity is a solar house designed and built by the Department of Architecture in the University of Roma Tre. The Italian project convinced more than the German, Chilean and the Dutch ones, and brought home first place in the competition. Teamwork, innovation and attention to integration and social inclusion are the strengths of the RhOME for denCity prototype, who convinced for its space reversibility, recovered furniture, a well-balanced heating and cooling system, and the team’s ability to manage the home with ease, adapting to changing climatic conditions. Solar Decathlon is an Olympics of sustainable architecture, held in Versailles June 27-July 12. (9Colonne)
