It's got to be plugged into that back thing there.
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JOSEPH WHEELER: This is the bathroom of the future.
This is an extension of our research, our FutureHAUS
research work, which proposes a single-family home that
is an exploration of how we build in the future,
and how we live in the future.
The bathroom of the future really
focuses on how we live in our home our entire life.
So we'll never be at a point where we
have to move out of our home.
So we're taking advantage of utilizing technology
to make the home more user-friendly, more
comfortable, more energy efficient, more
accessible, and on and on.
The sky's the limit on what we can do with this research
prototype.
Students play the critical role in this project,
especially getting students engaged in building and getting
our students of architecture engaged with other disciplines.
A project like this forces-- actually brings these students
together to work on real world problems.
It's really valuable, I think, for their education
to be exposed to building a prototype like this.
And this is a highly complex prototype.
This is high quality and professional work
done by students.
These students got together.
And as a team, we designed this house.
We researched materials.
We proposed new design concepts.
We explored the technology, the fixtures,
things that are available on the market,
things that need to be on the market.
Virginia Tech has recently been ranked
top three in the nation in architecture programs.
I believe it's work like this that gets us that credibility.