The Climate Active Bricks project was developed as part of a design-build summer school in August 2020th. The project looked into possibilities for improving the local microclimate in urban areas by creating self-shaded building facades with reduced solar exposure. The project aimed at integrating the potentials of computational design, climate simulation and robotic fabrication with the activation of climate-active properties of bricks in building envelopes. A prototype of this concept was produced together with students at 1:1 scale at the Kreativquartier in Munich.

Credits

• Technical University of Munich
  TUM Department of Architecture​​​
• TT Professorship Digital Fabrication
  Dipl. Ing. Julia Fleckenstein
  Prof. Dr. sc. ETH Kathrin Dörfler
• Associate Professorship of Architectural Design and Building Envelope
  Dr.-Ing. Architekt Philipp Lionel Molter
• Climateflux
  Ata Chokhachian, M.Sc.
   

Acknowledgements

• Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design
  TUM Department of Architecture
• Chair of Geodesy
  TUM Department of Aerospace and Geodesy
• Leipfinger Bader
• Empfangshalle
  Corbinian Böhm and Michael Gruber

Students
Daria Alekseeva, Maurice Demeyer, Arvand Vaghari Fard, Robin Feys,  Georgy Frolov, Arno Gabriel Goedefroo, Iuliia Larikova, Shiran Potié, Sébastien Wilwers

Recognition

• Honorable Mention of the German Brick Award 2021

Documentation

• TUM Architecture Review 2021