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Bucky Lab:

Stained Solar - PV-integrated stained glass

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The Bucky Lab is a programme by Deflt University of Technology for Master degree facade students. In 2020, the programme was entirely dedicated to BIPV.

Bucky Lab 2020:

KAOSS - Kinetic Adaptive Origami Sun Shade

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KAOSS is a prototype adaptive solar facade by students of TU Delft that cleverly combines energy generation with sun shading:

In Performance mode, Zonnebloem wants to amaze and showcase sustainable design in the built-up environment…
Bucky Lab 2020:

Zonnebloem: The self-protecting PV system

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Zonnebloem is a concept for a solar facade that not only produces clean electricity to help combat climate change but is also designed to cope with some of its expected impacts. See here how it works:

Bucky Lab 2020:

A dual-axis tracking PV solar facade

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The “Solar Tracker” prototype is a concept for a solution to integrate photovoltaics into the building envelope. It was developed in the TU Delft’s Bucky Lab, part of the facade Master’s Degree course. See more here:

At first glance, this solar facade fits in well with all of the brick facades that surround it…
Bucky Lab 2020:

The Energy Brick: A design for a solar-powered brick facade

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Focusing on building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), the 2020 Bucky Lab of the TU Delft in the Netherlands gave the students the opportunity to come up with new prototypes for solar facades:

Through the evaporation of water from their leaves, the plants help to cool the solar modules of the facade and so help to make them more efficient.
Bucky Lab 2020:

Green solar – cooling a solar facade with plants

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This student prototype developed by facade Master’s Degree students at the TU Delft’s Bucky Lab offers to solve the problem of efficiency loss in solar facades due to heat. The trick is integrating plants:


 Easy to assemble or disassemble.
Bucky Lab 2020:

A clever adaptive PV facade

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Prototype concepts for adaptive solar facades presented as part of the 2020 Bucky Lab by facade Master’s Degree students of the TU Delft. This week: a solar second skin facade that moves as needed:

In scattering and diffusing the light that streams into the window, these wing-shaped fins provide shading with minimum visual encumbrance.

TU Delft's Bucky Lab: A light diffusing louvre system

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This sun shading system was designed by the TU Delft master's degree facade students Alessio Vigorito, Jasper Sauer, Nayan Herath and Noah van der Berg as part of the Bucky Lab – to be integrated into the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam.

From afar, there would not seem to be much different about this facade...

TU Delft's Bucky Lab: A passive thermal adapting window

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This cooling and heating device was designed by the TU Delft master's degree facade students Akash Changlani, Giancarlo Manzanares, Stephanie Moumdjian and Alessandro Passoni as part of the Bucky Lab – to be integrated into the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam.

This rendering gives a good idea of what the system will eventually look like as part of an actual facade.

TU Delft's Bucky Lab: Energy generation from fins waving in the breeze

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This facade system was designed by the TU Delft master's degree facade students Daniella Naous, Divyae Mittal, Maximilian Mandat, Rahul Grover and Rutger Janssenas as part of the Bucky Lab – to be integrated into the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam.

While not deployed, the structure of the shading system cast interesting shadows and patterns.

TU Delft's Bucky Lab: An elegant and playful shading system

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This shading system was designed by TU Delft master's degree facade students Coco van Egeraat, Milou Klein, Juliëtte Mohamed and Kees Leemeijeras part of the Bucky Lab – to be integrated into the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam.

Providing a healthy, clean and visually attractive indoor environment for patients, employees, students and visitors alike.

TU Delft's Bucky Lab: State-of-the-art self-sufficient living wall

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This prototype indoor facade system was designed by TU Delft master's degree facade students Stephanie Bergen Henegouwen, Julia Kapinga, Sasha Rodriguez Arambatzis and Amelia Tapia Arboleda as part of the Bucky Lab – to be integrated into the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam.

A hospital is just one place of many where the smart management of heat is critical. And what better than a system that achieves that more or less passively?

TU Delft's Bucky Lab: The glazed frost window

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This prototype window panel that allows better heat and cooling management was designed by TU Delft master's degree facade students Grammatiki Dasopoulou, Maria-Iro Stefanaki and Tessa Rouwenhorst as part of the Bucky Lab – to be integrated into the facade of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam.

Fully engaged, Saku provides a great deal of shade and helps to keep the temperature inside rooms with large glass facades cool in the summer.

TU Delft's Bucky Lab: A dynamic solar shading unit

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Derek Wasylyshen, Lieve Croonen, Jelle Emmen and Hans Gamerschlag, all master students for facade technology as part of the Bucky Lab programme at Delft Technical University, have come up with a clever sun shading prototype:

What looks like conventional bay windows from the outside hides a clever design by the Bucky Lab students that generally makes the inside of the hospital room a more healthy place.

TU Delft's Bucky Lab: Hospital room with a view

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The prototype project Call it magic! designed as part of the TU Delft's master's degree programme Bucky Lab is a fresh approach to how the windows of a hospital can allow in a view of the world outside and thus contribute to the healing process.

What you see here is an impression of the interior view. The stretched fabric can provide a range of shading from privacy to near-total black-out.

TU Deflt's Bucky Lab: Star-shaped sun shading

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In our ongoing series, we present projects and prototypes from the Bucky Lab, where engineering and construction students offer a different take on facade construction through their new and fresh approach. This week, we show you a novel way of providing shade that involves flexible cloths.

Proud students presenting their functional prototype of the IOR shading system. When no shading is required, the transparent spheres are immersed in a liquid with the exact same refractive index and so become invisible.

TU Delft's Bucky Lab: Translucent spheres that can become fully invisible

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In our ongoing series, we present projects and prototypes from the Bucky Lab, where engineering and construction students offer a different take on facade construction through their new and fresh approach.

When the wind hits the facade, the visual effect resembles that of gust blowing through tall grass.

TU Delft's Bucky Lab: When wind outdoors brings cooling indoors

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In this ongoing series, we present projects and prototypes from the Bucky Lab, where engineering and construction students offer a different take on facade construction through their new and fresh approach.

At the Bucky Lab, the focus is always on function and the later practical application of the student's prototypes.

TU Delft: Facade and sun protection prototypes from the Bucky Lab

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As part of the Construction Technology degree course at the TU Delft, students in the Bucky Lab develop new facade concepts in the first semester, from idea to implementation, as 1:1 prototypes. Under the supervision of the graduate engineer Marcel Bilow, they go through all the steps that are similar to product development in practice. In the coming weeks we will present three exciting projects around the focus on facade and sun protection.