This week, North House was featured on Spark, CBC Radio’s technology and culture show. Host Nora Young spoke with Lisa Rochon, Globe and Mail architecture critic, about responsive architecture, using North House as an example of what’s possible: Imagine window…
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Our paper, Chasing the Negawatt: Visualization for Sustainable Living, has been published in this month’s issue of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications. It is available from the publisher and in the ACM Digital Library. Our sincere thanks to Theresa Marie-Rhyne…
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Smallworks, our partner on West House, has posted a time-lapse construction video of the building being re-constructed at the long term site, complete with seasonal Vancouver skies overhead! Check it out.
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The Ontario Association of Architects is currently holding an online vote for the People’s Choice Favourite Ontario Architecture Project as part of their Design Excellence Awards. Voting is open until April 9th at 4:30 EST at http://awards.thinkflo.com/. No signup is…
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Photo Credit: Keith Henderson Photography West House is a made-in-Vancouver demonstration of a sustainable laneway home. It showcases leading-edge small footprint residential design, energy efficient, integrated systems and interactive technologies that encourage a sustainable lifestyle. Come visit us at the…
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University of Waterloo faculty leads Kathy Velikov and Geoffrey Thün have published an account of the North House project in this month’s issue of Canadian Architect (January 2010). The contributions of SFU and members of our research group are highlighted…
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Welcome to the newly formed Human-Centered Systems for Sustainable Living research group at Simon Fraser University‘s School of Interactive Arts & Technology. About Reducing our ecological footprint requires not only new energy technologies but also new and more efficient energy…
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