23 Jun Convertible Urban Shades Science Festival on 24 June 2022
Microclimate strategies for adaptation to climate change Climate change
What contribution can convertible shading structures make to stabilising the urban microclimate in public spaces?
in public spaces during increasingly hot periods and thus counteract the effects of climate change?
counteract the effects of climate change?
As part of the research project "Convertible Urban Shades", which is part of the programme "Innovations for Adapting to
adaptation to climate change" programme of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation.
a public symposium will take place during the 2nd Stuttgart Science Festival.
In lectures and subsequent discussion rounds, the potential and implementation possibilities of changeable tensile morphologies will be discussed by engineers, experts and representatives of the public interest.
of changeable tensile morphologies will be discussed by engineers, architects, experts and representatives of the public interest.
Solar radiation leads to local overheating, especially in urban areas with little greenery, large storage masses and insufficient ventilation.
storage masses and insufficient ventilation lead to local overheating. It increasingly impairs
the quality of stay in public spaces. The research focus lies in the
microclimatic relationships and in the development of architectural-spatial and technological
architectural-spatial and technological strategies for cooling urban heat islands (UHI).
(UHI / urban heat islands) with the help of lightweight, convertible textile structures.
Organised by: CUS Research Project:
Building Technology and Climate Design Class / Structural Design and Structural Engineering Class.
Department of Architecture
State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart,
Am Weißenhof 1, 70191 Stuttgart, NB 2 - Lecture Hall