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Renewable House
Noah Sussman, Mercy Schmidt, and Sasha Hill
Thesis
The Renewable House is an exhibit showing the timeline of different energy sources and how they have developed. The goal of this exhibit is to educate viewers on the different sources of energy, and putting an emphasis on renewables. In order to understand renewables and how they help our planet, we first need to understand how we have come to this point in energy production.
Solar Power, Interactivity, Activated Learning
MSI Solar Energy Exhibit
Research & Inspiration
- "History and Development of Photovoltaics"
- "History and Development of Photovoltaics"
- "How Does Solar Work?"
Solar Panels
Inspired Design Choice
Inspired the timeline and historical aspect of the project.
Inspired Design Choice
Refererence for the data that appears in the virtual exhibit
First Concept Sketches
Inspirational Image
Build a renewable city
Timeline
Renewable Energy in the home
Room show different times
Image
What Worked?
What Didn't?
- Furniture layout
- Spacing layout
- Creating just a living room instead of an apartment
Brief prototype description
First Prototype
Prototype 1
This prototype was a modern house, deigned in Unity
We added the solar panel images into our final project, and we changed the furniture aspect.
We added the basic floor plan into our final project, and we changed the way the rooms look to fit each era
Change #1
Change #2
Prototype #2
Final
Reflecting & Looking Forward...
Something to add if there was more time would be more rooms including how solar panels would look in the future
If our group started over, we would change how the user moves throughout the space
Questions?
Mercy: Renewable House is a VR experience designed to teach the user about solar energy. The objective of Renewable House is to display different versions of solar panels and show the significance they have on sun energy over time. The VR rooms consist of three to five rooms showing different time periods of solar.
Each room is constructed as if it were an apartment in that generation. The first room is pre-solar energy/panels, which show what people used to use before. The middle room is when solar had just been created, and how an apartment room looked around the 1950s. The last room is a modern-day apartment space, consisting of modern furniture, representative photos, and interactive materials to show how solar energy and solar panels look in the twenty-first century.