Award-Winning Green Home Designs on Display through Feb. 5

Story posted January 24, 2007

Award-winning designs for homes that are energy efficient, environmentally friendly, healthy for the occupants, and affordable are on display in the Environmental Studies Common Room in Adams Hall through February 5, 2007.

The exhibit features the best green home designs submitted to Mainestream Green Housing Design Contest, organized by MaineHousing. The designs include the first-prize winner by John Gordon of Gordon|Stanley Architecture of Southwest Harbor; the second-place design from Ryan Senator of TFH Architects of Portland; and the third-place design submitted by Chris Briley, founder of the new Green Design Studio in Yarmouth.

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The winning green home designs will be on view in Adams Hall, first floor, through February 5.

An independent five-member panel of design professionals from throughout New England selected the winning entries. Wiebke Theodore, visiting assistant professor of art at Bowdoin, was one of the Mainestream Green Contest judges and helped arrange the exhibit.

The green housing design contest required designers to submit plans for homes that are affordable, are at least 1,000 square feet in size, and incorporate the Green Building Standards that MaineHousing adopted.

Homes built to those standards are significantly more energy efficient than conventionally designed homes, according to MaineHousing Director Dale McCormick.

"By making these designs available to the public, as well as homebuilders, architects, and contractors, we hope to encourage the development of more green housing in the state," McCormick said. "Green housing is not only more energy efficient, it is also environmentally friendly, compatible with its location, durable, and healthy for the occupants."

MaineHousing is showing the winning designs in exhibits throughout the state over the coming months. The designs were previously displayed at the College of the Atlantic and the University of Southern Maine, the Maine State Museum, and in the Welcome Center of the Maine State House.

The exhibition is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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