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05/25/2018 | Campus-Meldung

Project of the University of Kassel wins Blue Compass

The "Solar Spline - urban sun protection" project by the University of Kassel and the Kassel University of the Arts has won the vote for the Federal Environment Agency's "Blue Compass" audience award. According to the office, the project received 23.6 percent of the 12,601 votes cast, or nearly 3,000 votes. The Blue Compass is awarded to projects for adaptation to climate change.

Image: Solar OPV Lightweight Installation/FG Exerpimental Design and Construction.

"Solar Spline" is a cloud-like sunshade that also produces energy. It consists of 300 printed organic photovoltaic modules integrated into what appears to be a free-floating ultra-lightweight structure. To make the resulting energy output tangible, the OPV modules drive a fan that speeds up and gets louder at the same time, depending on the energy input. "Solar Spline" is a collaborative project between the Department of Experimental Design and Construction (EEK) of Prof. Frank Stepper and Timo Carl on the architecture side of the University of Kassel and Dr. Markus Schein, head of the Study Workshop for Digital Design and Manufacturing Methods at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Students from the fields of architecture, design, environmental engineering and computer science were involved. "Solar Spline" was hung at the Kunsthochschule.

With "Klimwald" another project of the University of Kassel (Competence Center for Climate Protection and Climate Adaptation CliMA) was involved in the voting; it landed on the 13th place.

Awards ceremony on June 22 at the Federal Environment Ministry in Berlin

In addition to the audience award, three other prizes will be awarded. Which other projects will be awarded the "Blue Compass" will be decided at the end of May by a jury with representatives from the Federal Environment Agency, the Federal Environment Ministry, DIE ZEIT, Harz University of Applied Sciences, the Association of Municipal Companies (VKU), the Independent Institute for Environmental Issues (UfU) and the German Environmental Foundation. The four "Blue Compass" winners will receive their awards at a ceremony at the Federal Environment Ministry in Berlin on June 22, 2018.