“…The previous studies on SD serial competitions have reported and examined the relevant projects from different perspectives; while an integrative examination is still missing. On the other hand, there is an emerging record of research introducing new solar technologies including active (García-Domingo et al, 2014;Motalleb et al, 2015;Renau et al, 2014) and passive (Ji et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2018) aiming for zero energy solar houses. There is a need for research that can provide strategies to integrate these new technologies for an optimized solar house.…”