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01/19/2022 | Campus-Meldung

Solar concrete a success at the Expo in Dubai

Prof. Heike Klussmann describes the appearance of the Bau Kunst Erfinden research group at the Expo in Dubai as a complete success. The research group from the University of Kassel is exhibiting two pioneering developments in the German pavilion: an energy-generating concrete and a facade robot.

Image: Björn Lauen/Build Art Invent
Visitors look at the solar concrete DysCrete/DssCrete.

Under the motto "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future," the World Expo 2020 will be held in Dubai until March 31, 2022. In the German pavilion, the transdisciplinary team's "DysCrete/DssCrete" research project is demonstrating a method for making the building material concrete conductive and an electricity-producing solar cell by applying a layer of photoreactive substances. In contrast to solar panels on the roof, this solution, which is integrated into the architecture, allows great freedom in design and thus quality architecture.

In order to be able to apply and renew the necessary coating on facades, a facade robot was also developed, the Plotbot/Crawler. Both developments can be seen as prototypes both at the World Exhibition in Dubai and in the Bau Kunst Erfinden studio in Kassel.

Bau Kunst Erfinden is a transdisciplinary research group based in the Department of Visual Arts at the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning at the University of Kassel.