CU's team effort has been guided in a manner that allows blurring the boundaries between the roles established in their areas of academic study. This is particularly apparent with the architecture and engineering students. Throughout the project, architecture students have been encouraged to "think like engineers" and vice versa as engineering students are asked to step into the role of architect. By strategizing in such a manner the group hopes to achieve a home design in which architecture and engineering drive one another in a supportive, well-integrated manner.

The desired end result for the CU Team's Solar Decathlon project should then be a solar mobile home design with a strong balance between aesthetics and technology and one in which the two create powerful synergistic dialogues. In design reviews and on the construction site it is common to hear an architecture student propose a detail with strong aesthetics while explaining how to avoid thermal bridging through material placement. And on the CU project you won't be surprised to hear an engineering student take a stand on overall project design strategies.

The long-range goal beyond the Solar Decathlon Competition is that CU students will enter their respective fields and will contribute to the built world in ways which reflect cohesive unions of design and engineering. The Solar Decathlon Competition will help CU students reach this goal.