Orsolya Nagy Student of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), 5th year BSc degree, Business Administration and Managemen 1. Why did you join the project? It was not long ago that I became the member of the team since last year this time. Now, as I have started writing my own introduction I can smile...
Dániel Lőrincz Student of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), BSc degree, Industrial product and design Engineer 1. Why did you join the project? At the beginning of the project Adrian asked me if I could help him to organize such a competition at our university. His initiative was sympathetic for several reasons so I...
As a first step, about 200 students participated in DTU?s Solar Decathlon 13-week innovative idea and design-courses in the spring of 2011. The interesting ideas were collected and discussed twice in June in a framework of a three-week workshop, where the manufacturing partners were also invited. The first occasion was on 19th March that was...
Introduction Solar Decathlon is an international competition between universities, in which participants? task to design and build solely solar-powered houses. The winner is who collects the most of the points in the ten tests. The next Solar Decathlon Europe competition will be held in Madrid, in September 2012. The American University in Cairo (AUC) has become the first Middle Eastern or African team, which has succeeded to be among the participants...
Student of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), 3rd year in the traditional 5-year degree, Architect 1, Why did you join the project? Since the beginning of my studies I?m interested in the environmentally conscious architectural thinking, because its existence is unquestionable. I attended several subjects in this topic and also wrote in this...
When we imagined the house everything was easy to operate: a simple touch turned on the light, with smoothing the light was fading and with a subtle gesture the house became asleep. In our house there were no plastic buttons, switches, knobs, just simple, in the wall-fitting natural surfaces that guess people?s thought from a...