Team China Virtual Tour - Solar decathlon 2011

Hear straight from the collegiate students from Team China's Tongji University about their design and strategy behind their entry in the U.S. Department of E...

[music] Y-shape is the name of the Y container, because I want to create a flow in space, a flexible space compared to the traditional residential house. You'll see we do not have any fixed partition in the Y-shaped house. The space is going to be more spacious, while we're still limited in 1,000 square feet footage. Also, I put so many customizable features in this house. You'll see there's a convertible wall, can customize as the consumers wish. [music] The last feature I want to introduce is an exterior platform, combined with a raining water recycle system. Yeah, we collect the rainwater from the rooftop and recycle it to the gray water tank, then to our water purifier tank, and finally to the landscape water. [music]