Author Archives | Kristina Yu
Since 2007, Yu has been teaching at the UNM, School of Architecture and Planning. She is Assistant Professor specializing in housing and development issues. She has held positions at the University of Texas Austin and Texas Tech University Lubbock. For many years, she worked as architect and intern in several offices: McClain+Yu, JSK Architekten Berlin, Smith Miller Hawkinson New York, Wood + Zapata Architects Boston, Büro Libeskind Berlin.
Solar Decathlon House: SHADE house 101
Unlike a fast paced NCAA basketball game, academic games are tortuga-paced. For the last 15 months, team ASUNM -- Arizona State University and University of New Mexico -- has taken on the game challenge to design, construct, transport and operate a fully solar-powered house. The objective is to bring this house to the 2013 competition site of Orange County Park, CA. 20 teams from around the world and the US converge with their houses October 2013 to compete in ten categories...
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02. May 2013
The Solar Decathlon is an international collegiate competition in ten contests for a fully solar powered house sponsored by the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. University of New Mexico students have had the opportunity to compete alongside many of the best and brightest students in the nation to design, construct and operate a solar house under competition standards. A highly competitive evaluation will be held October 2013 in Irvine, CA...
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16. August 2013
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