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The ‘Solar Decathlon Madrid 2010’ is a contest for students all around the world initiated and organized by the Spanish Ministry of housing and the U.S. Department of Energy.
The aim of this competition is the advancement of knowledge on industrialized and sustainable homes, with a particular emphasis on high efficiency and energy self-sufficiency. The University of Wuppertal, along with 20 other universities, was chosen to participate in the Decathlon.

Each team has to design, build and test its own 74m², self-sufficient house, using solar power as the only source of energy.

The house is going to be evaluated by an expert jury in Madrid in the following 10 disciplines.

The University of Wuppertal has accepted this challenge and ever since, a multidisciplinary team of 30 students and professors formed by the Departments of Architecture, Industrial Design, Communication Design and Civil Engineering has been working on the project.