Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has been organising the Bucky Lab for its facade Master’s Degree students. In 2020, the programme was all about adaptive solar facades. Over the coming weeks, we will present you the prototypes and concepts that the students have been coming up with:
Oasta PV Facade
M. Bilow / TU Delft
In the EU, about 40 per cent of the energy consumption is down to buildings. This is particularly true for office and commercial buildings. While architects and engineers are trying to solve this issue by designing green buildings, this need for maximum power output often clashes with several design objectives such as providing views and daylight.
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The Bucky Lab team of Irum Faisal, Kevin Winiarczyk, Qinglu Chen, Solkyu Park and Tijmen Smith had the vision to design a PV product as a second skin facade, using a single-axis sun tracking adaptive mechanism. The design has rotating PV trackers within a folding framework. It is a multi-purpose facade system that collects energy, balances daylight as well as providing shading and visual comfort. By utilising a dynamic mechanism, the product can continually adapt its angle to the position of the sun.
M. Bilow / TU Delft
