Climate-adaptive design is a revolutionary approach to architecture and engineering, creating structures that actively respond to weather extremes rather than merely withstanding them. These ...

German research institute Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has commissioned a 50 kW solar facade at its new research building in Adlershof, Berlin. The facade was built with 360 CIGS thin-film solar ...

The aim of this project is to develop an adaptive building envelope technology based on Ulster University’s pioneering work on solar thermal diodes. The study will require the investigation of the ...

The US real estate company installed a 25 m solar array was installed on the side of the company’s seven-story building near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the support of Arch Solar. The array ...

Inspired by the movement mechanisms of pine cones, the researchers developed the Solar Gate, a weather-responsive architectural facade ... weather-responsive, adaptive shading system that operates ...

Studio Kennon has designed the 550 Spencer St - Catching the Sun building facade in Melbourne, Australia. 550 Spencer will feature more than 1,000 glass-like solar panels across its facade.

Recently, solar Tomography Adaptive Optics (TAO) and Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) were being developed to overcome this problem of small AO corrected FOV. However, for both TAO and MCAO, ...