{"id":49491,"date":"2023-04-11T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T13:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=49491"},"modified":"2023-04-17T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T14:31:37","slug":"decathlon-top-10-interior-architecture-and-engineering-students-design-cost-efficient-comfortable-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/decathlon-top-10-interior-architecture-and-engineering-students-design-cost-efficient-comfortable-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Decathlon Top 10: Interior Architecture and Engineering students design cost efficient, comfortable home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"23DC ATTATCHED HOUSING UTC PITCH 2023\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\"src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aps5I_p8WQQ?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;autohide=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>University of Tennessee at Chattanooga students had five weeks to produce plans to wow judges in a competition with 124 teams from universities across the world.<\/p>\n<p>They did it.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-member team of students from the Department of Interior Architecture and Design and the College of Engineering and Computer Science entered the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s 2023 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge to design a house to be energy- and cost-efficient while also a comfortable living space.<\/p>\n<p>An entrant in the Attached Housing division\u2014for designs of multi-family structures such as apartments\u2014the UTC students\u2019 preliminary floor plans submitted in February impressed the judges, and the team ended up as one of 10 finalists in the category.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to have energy- and cost-efficient housing but, at the same time, what can we do with interior design?\u201d asked Dr. Eun Young Kim, assistant professor of interior design and faculty advisor for the Design Challenge team.<\/p>\n<p>Winners will be announced later this month in the Solar Decathlon conference in Golden, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>When the students began the design process, they started with plans from the Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, a local organization that provides new homes to low-income families.<\/p>\n<p>One of the CNE\u2019s ongoing projects is Missing Middle, which builds small-scale apartments that fit into the style of traditional neighborhoods, said\u00a0CNE Vice President Justin Tirsun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew what CNE is doing,\u201d Kim said. \u201cSo I approached them and said, \u2018Hey, we are doing a design competition, and we want to use your project. Is there any way we can enhance your building&#8217;s energy performance and enhance occupants\u2019 experience?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A six-apartment Missing Middle project already has been completed at the intersection of Bailey Avenue and South Willow Street, and blueprints from that project were given to the UTC team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Kim and her students are leading the project. The team is incredibly enthusiastic and hard-working,\u201d Tirsun said. \u201cWe hope they will produce a better product that we can incorporate into future building plans. They have already shown us promising recommendations we will likely try to adapt into our future construction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UTC senior Landon Parker said he and the three other team members majoring in interior architecture and design are working on ideas for the interior and exterior of the house and on lowering energy costs\u2014which can mean costlier building materials that are cost-saving in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt depends how you look at it because, after a while, it pays itself off, but it tends to be a lot more expensive upfront,\u201d said Parker, who\u2019s from Nashville and graduated from Brentwood High School.<\/p>\n<p>Learning the ins and outs of structure design is a plus in his plans to be a commercial architect after graduation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad&#8217;s an architect, so I\u2019m following his path,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering students, under the guidance of Dr. Sungwoo Yang, assistant professor of civil and chemical engineering, tackled the preliminary studies into the structure\u2019s energy performance. Team member Caleb Traxler, a junior in mechanical engineering, has been focusing on the home\u2019s appliances and overall energy needs.<\/p>\n<p>His ultimate goal after college is to work in the nuclear field and, even though there\u2019s an enormous difference between the energy needs of the Design Challenge house and a nuclear reactor, the engineering concepts are basically the same, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of this is helping me to apply those thermodynamic concepts on a much smaller scale,\u201d said Traxler, who\u2019s from Chattanooga and graduated from Collegedale Academy. \u201cIf it works in a home, you can actually scale it quite well to a much larger area. Thermodynamics is fun like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Design team students<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Interior architecture and design: Landon Parker, Blake Burba, Jacob Ridenour and Robyn Wood<\/li>\n<li>Mechanical engineering: Caleb Traxler<\/li>\n<li>Chemical engineering: Daron Lyons<\/li>\n<li>Construction management master\u2019s students: Lina Abdelkarim and Kenisha Gardner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_49492\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"750\" data-attachment-id=\"49492\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/decathlon-top-10-interior-architecture-and-engineering-students-design-cost-efficient-comfortable-home\/interior-architecture-and-design-team-23-2039\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/Interior-Architecture-and-Design-Team-23-2039.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,750\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1678384461&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Interior Architecture and Design Team-23-2039\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/Interior-Architecture-and-Design-Team-23-2039-1024x600.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-49492 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/Interior-Architecture-and-Design-Team-23-2039.jpg\" alt=\"Front row, from left: Blake Burba, Landon Parker, Lina Abdelkarim. Back row, from left: Sungwoo Yang, Seong Dad Kim, Caleb Traxler, Daron Lyons, Jacob Ridenour, Eun Young Kim and Robyn Wood. 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