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RoofKIT Tour de Solar
How do we bring our cargo bike from our sponsor Lastenvelo in Freiburg to the Solar Campus of the SDE in Wuppertal? With a bike ride, of course! In bright sunshine, we started in Freiburg on the blue bridge known from Netflix. We continued past the New Town Hall with its solar façade through the…
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Exhibition at Zukunftsraum
In the exhibition we present an excerpt of our contribution to the Solar Decathlon Europe and inform about resource-efficient, future architecture. We would like to invite you to the opening of our exhibition on May 16 from 6.30 p.m. in the Zukunftsraum, Rintheimer Straße 46, 76131 Karlsruhe to come by and exchange with us over…
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CLAYTEC Report
CLAYTEC reportes on RoofKIT and our project! For more information, please visit: https://www.claytec.de/de/clayblog/projektvorstellung-solar-decathlon-roofkit-universitaet-karlsruhe_n3922CLAYTEC GmbH & Co. KG: https://www.claytec.de/
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RoofKIT – on the way to a new building philosophy
A scientific article written by members of RoofKIT was published in Bauphysik Volume 44, Issue 2! For more information: https://doi.org/10.1002/bapi.202200002 AbstractThe contribution of the RoofKIT team to the SDE 21/22 is the extension for an existing building to create new functions and living space for the building with simultaneous energetic upgrading. Main targets are mono-fraction…
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Construction Week 6 | Bauwoche 6
The sixth construction week was all about new surfaces. After the substructure for the interior was installed in construction week 5, this week we were able to cut the clay building panels for the walls to fit exactly and attach them. This has already completely changed the appearance of the interior room and for the…
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Construction Week 5 | Bauwoche 5
In the last few weeks, one part of our team was involved in the construction of our HDU in Reuthe each week. Together with the employees of the carpentry Kaufmann we have dragged, drilled and screwed. The untreated wood was planed, cut and sanded. Every day, countless screws were sunk into the wood of the…
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Construction Week 4 | Bauwoche 4
Insights into practical processes in the construction industry are an important and enjoyable experience for every student of architecture and civil engineering. We were lucky enough to be involved very closely in the construction of our housing unit in Reuthe. After a day of learning the carpentry processes, we were able to get more and…
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Construction Week 3 | Bauwoche 3
In our week, the majority of the parts came together! After filling the final roof elements with Neptutherm, we could finally add it tot he whole HDU and do a roofing ceremony! Afterwards we added clamping seals in between the wooden frame and the window/door frames to wind proof the construction. It was a lenghty…
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Construction Week 2 | Bauwoche 2
Our second week of construction is over! This week we screwed together and assembled the interior walls. We built the roof modules. We also attached and sealed the vapor barrier. We started by insulating the first, already built roof elements with seaweed. Furthermore, we assembled the next roof elements from already dimensionally accurate tied wooden…
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Construction Week 1 | Bauwoche 1
We are ready to go! This week we started the construction phase of the HDU. Kaufmann Zimmerei and Tischlerei in Reuthe, Austria is attending us on this journey. Two of us students arrived and were allowed to help with the very first steps in the large construction hall. In preparation, the individual wooden beams and…
