Materials scientists coordinate new EU-project on
intelligent façades
Windows that change their light permeability at the touch of
a button, façades, whose color can be changed according to the sunlight,
façades and window parts in which transparent photovoltaic modules are
integrated or in which microalgae are being bred to provide the house with its
own biofuel: This is what the buildings of the future could feature, or at
least something similar. "Many of these ideas are certainly within
imagination end even technological feasibility, today, in particular within the
field of façades which may adapt to their environment and thus improve the energy
efficiency of modern buildings," states Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lothar Wondraczek
from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany). "But only a fraction
of this potential has been tackled so far, as the relevant materials and
production processes are still missing," he further explains.