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In this edition of our webinar series GW-News Talks, Marcel Bilow of the Technical University Delft and Hannes Spiß of Isolar have been discussing some of the latest developments in the facade industry. See the video recording of the session here:
In our series of free talks highlighting the latest developments of the facade and glass industry, we next cover facades of the future and what is the best material is best.
This year’s PowerSKIN Conference happening in December is now accepting abstract proposals. The event focussing on the future of the building envelope will be held in a virtual format.
This and other exciting questions will be the focus of the 6th International NEXT Facade Session on 22 February 2022 in the NEXT Studio in Frankfurt. Moderated by facade experts Ulrich Knaack (TU Darmstadt/Delft) and Marcel Bilow (TU Delft), the hybrid event will be a platform for visionary concepts and out-of-the-box thinking.
A special hut in the Alps, bent insulating glass for a green house, stained glass windows that generate electricity and Finstral‘s plans to expand production capacity. Here are our top stories of this week:
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.
KAOSS is a prototype adaptive solar facade by students of TU Delft that cleverly combines energy generation with sun shading:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
