The group of nine students, all in their fifth year at Louisiana Tech University, spent the first half of the 2008-2009 academic year planning the home's design. "We went through a whole bunch of different iterations," Boudreaux says. "We worked individually, then had meetings and voted in a pretty democratic way for what we liked most." Photo courtesy of Jared Boudreaux and Tim Hayes. Photo 2 of 17 in LA Tech-Habitat Home

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The group of nine students, all in their fifth year at Louisiana Tech University, spent the first half of the 2008-2009 academic year planning the home's design. "We went through a whole bunch of different iterations," Boudreaux says. "We worked individually, then had meetings and voted in a pretty democratic way for what we liked most." Photo courtesy of Jared Boudreaux and Tim Hayes.