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摘要

For Hunter Duplantier, the futuristic-looking house that went up last winter on the edge of the University of Louisiana campus in Lafayette stood out among its traditional-looking neighbors. It's built like a loft, tall and boxy, with a flat roof and oddly placed nar- row windows. But the most unusual attributes of the home were the ones he couldn't see. The building is the first in the southern U.S. to achieve official certification as a "passive house." As such, it needs a mere fraction of the electricity it takes to run a conventional home of comparable size.