Bioclimatic office-greenhouse prototype
The aim of the research project is to develop and build a prototype of a novel energy-autonomous
office-greenhouse with symbiotically functioning areas for office and plantation use. The project
develops pathways for the energetic upgrade of existing greenhouses and office buildings as well as
the construction of future, bioclimatic and energy self-sufficient hybrid-building. The district
nursery in Berlin-Charlottenburg provides a place and infrastructure for building the prototype.
The idea is to combine the bioclimatic requirements for office people in terms of temperature,
humidity, light and oxygen with bioclimatic conditions for plants in greenhouse environments and
thereby significantly reduce the building's energy requirements.
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The Chair of Climatology is responsible for developing and implementation of the bioclimatic
monitoring for this pioneering building concept. The experimental lab and makerspace (link to
makerspace website
) are used for construction and testing of low-cost measuring stations that are able to record
air temperature, humidity, lighting intensity, mean radiative temperature and wind speed in the
bioclimatic office-greenhouse. These low-cost observational systems are based on building instructions
of the do-it-yourself project CoMoS (Comfort Monitoring Station
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). CoMoS consists of a microcontroller (ESP32), air temperature and humidity sensor (Si7021),
temperature sensor (DS18B20) for recording the mean radiation temperature, light intensity sensor
(BH1750), wind sensor (Rev C.) and other components.
This joint project is funded by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU). Project partners are
architects, civil and building engineers, energy technicians, botanists, manufacturers of seasonal
thermal storage and CO2-neutral building technology, as well as experts for convertible shading elements.
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