The Sun is Shining
Zero Carbon Building Systems #ZCBS lab's LED artificial sun is shining and moving - the lab is now officially open - congratulations to the Architecture and Building Systems research group here at ITA, ETH.
"At ETH Zurich, there is a room where the sun shines at the touch of a button; one hour it’s noon in the Sahara, the next it’s January in Berlin. Researchers use it to test newly developed building systems, components and materials." writes Michael Walter, ETH, in an article published
The Zero Carbon Building Systems Lab – initiated by the Professorship of Architecture and Building Systems at ETH Zurich – is unique state-of-the-art infrastructure that will house a collaborative environment for external researchers and industry partners.
The reconfigurable design of the lab can support a wide range of research and testing of building technology, as well as user acceptance and interaction studies. Specifically this includes, but is not limited to, research on building systems and components in varied phases of development (e.g. from early proof-of-concept validation - to - system demonstration). The lab will also be instrumental to collecting data on measurable dimensions of performance of the innovations emerging from partner research within the NCCR Digital Fabrication.
A site of development and a showcase for research results, the lab is located at the ETH Zurich Hoenggerberg Campus next to the Arch Tech Lab and the Robotic Fabrication Lab of the Institute of Technology in Architecture.
Full information on the Zero Carbon Building Systems Lab can be found here.
Congratulations to Prof. Arno Schlüter and his entire project team!