TU Delft's Bucky Lab: A dynamic solar shading unit

04/30/2020 | Print view

Fully engaged, Saku provides a great deal of shade and helps to keep the temperature inside rooms with large glass facades cool in the summer. - © Bucky Lab / TU Delft — © Bucky Lab / TU Delft

Fully engaged, Saku provides a great deal of shade and helps to keep the temperature inside rooms with large glass facades cool in the summer.

Derek Wasylyshen, Lieve Croonen, Jelle Emmen and Hans Gamerschlag, all master students for facade technology as part of the Bucky Lab programme at Delft Technical University, have come up with a clever sun shading prototype:

In our ongoing series, we present projects and prototypes from the Bucky Lab, where engineering and construction students offer a different take on facade construction through their new and fresh approach. For more on the Bucky Lab, please click here. This week, we present the sun shading project Saku:

Saku is a solar shading facade with not only the ability to mediate interior temperatures, but an dynamic aesthetic that reflects the technology and care serviced within the AMC Hospital in Amsterdam. By situating this facade on the entry atriums of the building, patients are reassured that the treatment and care they will receive will also be of the highest quality.