Press Kit DEL#3 17.03.2021

solar 21 decathlon europe WUPPERTAL GERMANY levelup ... your living

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table of content 5 press release 7 contact details 12 list of team members 14 project description 16 project images 26

4 5 press release

6 7 The Solar Decathlon combines social commitment with professional, theoretical and practical learning! „“Prof. Dr. Jochen Stopper - Faculty Advisor

Achieving a Climate-neutral City with the Building of the Future each other in ten disciplines at the exhibition in Wuppertal over a period of two weeks. The The university competition Solar Decathlon Europe 2021 (SDE21) is about life-like solutions fully functional house demonstration units are open to visitors at the exhibition in Wuppertal in for the energy revolution – and the Technical University of Applied Science Rosenheim is on June 2022. The Rosenheim team‘s building must convince the jury not only in terms of comfort, board! technology and sustainability, but also with its innovative approach to the concept. The goal of the competition is to raise public awareness of real-life solutions for the energy transition, Rosenheim, 2021/03/17 - After its great success in 2010 as the “Vice World Champion in Solar the creation of affordable housing and energy-efficient construction using renewable energies. Building”, the University wants to continue their winning streak. Then, as now, the recipe for success lies in the assembly of curious minds, a healthy mixture of visionary thinking, enginee- The Design ring expertise, creativity and drive. Since our first participation, a lot has happened on either levelup stands for a modular, flexible addition of storeys in lightweight wood construction, side. The international university competition SDE21 will take place in Germany (Wuppertal) adaptable to almost all buildings constructed between the 1950s to the 70s. The design is ba- for the first time. But most importantly, the competition content has changed and for the first sed on a modular construction and a flexible floor plan that can be adapted to the different time addresses the most pressing issues of urbanity: the creation of affordable living space, needs of both residents and the existing building. Prefabricated modules (kitchen, bathroom, transformation to a climate-neutral building stock and the sustainable use of resources. With staircase core) in standardized sizes help to ensure easy transports, shorten construction times an interdisciplinary team, the University aims to rethink living as we know it. and reduce costs. Variable uses within the modules makes it possible to realize the most di- Within a period of two years, students from various faculties and course of study will plan, build verse floor plans through the flexible connection of rooms and common areas such as roof and operate the building of the future in close cooperation with partners from business, indus- gardens, loggias, studios and co-working spaces. Thanks to communal areas on the roof, inclu- try and research. As in 2010, the entire energy requirement will be covered exclusively by solar ding elevators, additional benefits are created for the residents in the existing building. power. The Solar Decathlon Europe now also focuses on innovations for sustainable building and future urban living. Instead of sealing green areas, the levelup team will renovate existing Our motivation buildings from the 1950s to 1970s in an energy-efficient way and add on storeys. Our motivation to participate in SDE21 is not only to maintain the level of the university’s competition entry at SDE10 in Madrid, but also make a meaningful contribution to climate neu- The Competition trality of our cities. That is why we want to create sustainable, energy-efficient and socially In the SDE21 18 selected university teams from all over the world will compete. Seven German acceptable architecture to drive the energy transition in urban neighborhoods and shape sus- universities are represented among the 18 participating teams from eleven countries. Since Ja- tainable cities. Our innovative living concept is designed to enhance German cities not only nuary 2020, students and professors have been working together in the SDE21 team levelup on architecturally and aesthetically, but also socially. The new affordable living space adapts to the following tasks: To design a modular addition on top of an existing multi-storey residential the individual models and needs of different population groups through flexible use. building built between 1950 and 1970, and furthermore to find a way to run it only by using so- To sum it up: levelup … your living! lar energy. The teams not only develop designs, but also implement them in the form of a fully functional prototype on a 1:1 scale. At the end of the project, the teams will compete against 8 9 our vision

levelup ... your building

Cost-effective addition of stories using prefabricated, standardized, wood construction elements with attractive architecture. The innovative und barrier-free interior offers many conveniences and high functionality.

levelup ... your sustainability

Within the framework of holistic planning, the individual planning components that address sustainability are interlinked. Natural resources and ecosystems must be protected and the health and well-being of animals, humans, flora and fauna must be improved.

levelup ... your comfort

For the provision of indoor comfort, climatic conditions and functionality are vital to increase the personal well-being of the occupants and their user satisfaction.

levelup ... your technology

The challenge is to find the most efficient energy concept in order to realize a carbon neutral building with a low level of energy demand. This will be accomplished by the use of photovoltaic and solar ther- mal systems, intelligent building automation and other innovative systems.

levelup ... your community

Residents in different phases of life live together and form a community that supports each other by sharing services and goods. Green community areas on the roof and sharing concepts strengthen the feeling between neighbours.

10 11 contact details

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Andreas Boschert [email protected] [email protected] Tel +49 (0) 8031 805-2625

TUAS Rosenheim lead university logo

The university stands for the following attributes: sustainable, natural, Bavarian, diverse, dynamic, forward-looking, interdisciplinary

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Industry partners & sponsors, university • project website students, specialized press (architectural & • downloadable Press Kit engineering), energy-efficiency & resource • TUAS Rosenheim SDE21 responsibility stakeholders, international green-workforce, academic journals & • Instagram communities, circular economy & start-up • Facebook communities • LinkedIn

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International university competition, sustainability, modularity, addition of story, energy- efficiency building, resource-responsibility, green building, eco-friendly architecture, innovation

12 13 list of team members

Jochen Stopper Faculty Advisor Andreas Boschert Project Manager, Sponsorship Manager Nadine Socher Project Architect Sebastian Obermaier Project Engineer, Instrumentation Contact Giulia Bettini Student Team Leader Barbara Salzeder Communications Coordinator Julian Scheuring Team Officer Ines Mizera Team Officer Marinus Limbrunner Team Officer Julia Bachmaier Team Officer Sabrina Sehnal Team Officer Julia Paternoster Team Officer Michael Petri Team Officer Valentina Mayer Team Officer

Henrike Martius Team Member Brian Ginder Team Member Julia Baumann Team Member Torsten Armstroff Team Member Marie-Theres Gomilschak Team Member

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Team‘s Organisation and Objectives

The Solar Decathlon at the Technical University of Applied Science Rosenheim is currently driven forward by an interdisciplinary team of students from various courses of study and faculties with around 20 advising professors at their side. Our team is also supported by many partners and sponsors from industry and research. The different work areas are supervised by ten student team leaders from different disciplines, each of whom supervises a larger group of students. The interdisciplinary teamwork enables a very detailed process and a great exchange at the university. In our project we create practical, innovative and future-oriented solutions for affordable housing in urban areas. We are developing a modular, two-storey addition including roof gardens and communal areas in timber construction with a high degree of prefabrication to reduce construction time and costs to a minimum. The goal is to use sustainable, energy-efficient and socially acceptable architecture to advance the energy transition in urban neighbourhoods and create sustainable cities. The newly created meeting places in the neighbourhood strengthen the residents‘ sense of social community. The innovative concept is intended to enhance German city centres not only architecturally and aesthetically, but also socially. Furthermore,

the focus of the addition is on recyclable constructions made of renewable, biogenic, CO2-ab- sorbing building material wood and recycled and recyclable materials. In order to address the largest building stock in Germany from the years 1950 - 70 and to achieve high synergies, the addition of storeys is adaptable to different floor plan types of all buildings of this period due to its modularity and detached from the statics of the existing building. With our concept, we develop transferable and transparent solutions for all cities. In addition to social aspects, the creation of affordable housing continues to be important. To this end, effective and innovative financing models are being developed to increase the rate of refurbishment in urban areas. The developments are always on a neighbourhood scale and show the future life in the city. The most urgent issues of the energy transition and climate change in the city are addressed and solutions are developed within the competition.

16 17 Thus, in the past winter semester 2020/2021, the various ideas and concepts for the HDU were deepened and brought together in a draft. The ongoing approaches for the design challenge is based on the resident survey that was conducted. In addition, we were able to build up a very extensive database on sustainable and innovative materials. These were included for the design of the interior of the HDU. Using ‚Building Information Modeling‘, relevant building data is now captured, digitalized and combined. In addition, our communication measures were expanded. For example, a new website was created and a film about our team was produced. In addition, a sponsorship concept was developed and contact with our sponsors Project Development and Current State was intensified. Further PR measures included the graphic design of various communication activities. Since the winter semester 2019/20, more than twenty students of the interior design course have been working on the design of a sustainable, new type of multi-storey extension in timber construction. The designs dealt intensively the topics of the SDE21 and formed the basis of the concept of the levelup system. The core team took up these basic research and developed them fundamentally further. For this purpose, they were in contact with the municipal housing association Siedlungswerke Nuremberg (SW Nürnberg), who provides an appropriate real building stock and thus the necessary planning basis. In spite of the restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the intensive cooperation between students and the consulting professors continued in home office and via online teaching. Thus, it was possible to bring more interdisciplinary students from different courses and faculties into the team and integra- te their knowledge into the competition entry. With the submission of the concept for DEL#1, the design was broken down into the individual focal points and was further developed and elaborated by the relevant faculties. During the following summer semester 2020, the working group was expanded interdisciplinary and across different faculties. In addition to the draft

and first designs, various student teams investigate the technical components of the energy Figure 1: SDE office, © levelup I SDE21 and building technology. At the same time, the designs were considered in the context of the neighborhood integration. Among other topics, urban transport and future mobility concepts were developed. A further focus was set on communication via social media and the acqui- sition of sponsors, for which concepts were worked out. At the end of the summer semester 2020, the plans for the house demonstration unit became more concrete and innovative designs and energy concepts were developed.

Figure 2: existing building in the urban context, © levelup I SDE21 Figure 3: Working with materials, © levelup I SDE21 18 19 Figure 4: existing multi-storey building, © levelup I SDE21

House Description and Relevant Items

As an addition to the storeys of an existing apartment building, the system can be adapted to a wide variety of buildings that correspond to the building and floor plan typologies of residential buildings from the 1950s to 1970s. This creates an innovative solution for redensification in cities, which can be applied to the largest proportion of the German building stock of multi-family houses. The SDE21 competition entry will be developed on the basis of an existing building in Nuremberg, that exhibits the building and floor plan typologies described. The extension to the existing building comprises two levels of extension, which includes private living space as well as communal common areas and utility rooms that serve as basement and attic compensation. The modules of the system are planned with a high degree of prefabrication in innovative timber construction, so that all elements can be dismantled and recycled according to the Cradle to Cradle® principle. This makes it possible to react individually to the existing situation at each location and to create new, innovative living space that is needed on site. At the same time, the system can react flexibly to the needs of the residents and serve every age and target group Figure 5: modular addition of storeys, © levelup I SDE21 without restrictions. The integration of flexible rooms, which are located between the individual residential units, enables the desired flexibility. The flexible as well as connectable rooms can be used as a separate residential unit or be divided among the neighboring apartments, thus gaining additional living space. In this way, the apartments of the addition can grow with the residents and react flexibly to the number of people in a housing unit. With its expressive, visionary architecture, the levelup system stands out from the existing building and at the same time forms a unit with it through the redesign and the renovation of the existing façade. Roof gardens on the open spaces of the third-floor level offer a high level of biodiversity and an eco- logical enhancement to the addition and into the quarter. Complementary to the communal open spaces, the extension also includes multi-purpose rooms that can be used by the entire building community.

Figure 6: finished renovation and addition of storeys , © levelup I SDE21 20 21 Cooperating institutions and sponsoring companies

As one of the most important educational institutions in the south-east of Bavaria, the Rosen- heim Technical University of Applied Sciences combines a regional profile with international renown. Its core competencies lie in the fields of technology, economics, design, health and social affairs. The levelup team benefits from vital cooperation between our university, the industry, and research institutions. This goes well beyond simply receiving financial support, but also involves specialist knowledge and expertise from industry, cooperating institutions, Dissemination Activities and Current Impact and sponsors. Over 6,000 students profit from excellent technical equipment in our laborato- ries and workshops, intensive personal support, and high-quality teaching, which establishes Due to the long-lasting circumstances of the pandemic, the participation of the Technical Uni- above-average career prospects through intensive cooperation with companies. versity of Applied Sciences Rosenheim in the SDE21 competition has been mainly publicized within university circles and among companies and institutions providing us with support. Se- Since the onset of the project, the levelup team worked intensively with the expertise of CAA- veral articles in company newspapers and newsletters have reached sponsors as well as an LA GmbH, a life cycle analysis specialist whose software package CAALA enables the team to audience associated with our university. At the International Timber Construction Forum in take a closer look at sustainability issues in their designs. Dealing with sustainability concepts Innsbruck (Austria), initial company contacts were made with sponsors who were supporting has also led to another close and intensive exchange with the DNGB (German Sustainable the levelup team‘s application process. This aroused tremendous interest among local com- Building Council). With their support, a select number of students are currently being certified panies and students to participate in the SDE competition. As part of a regional webinar series as DGNB consultants. Local timber construction experts, such as ZÜBLIN Timber GmbH, Hu- on the topic of climate change and energy transition, levelup gave a presentation to promote ber & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG, Lignotrend Produktions GmbH, Rotho Blaas, and others, support interdepartmental participation in the SDE21 competition and to make public our competition the team with additional expertise. With regard to existing buildings, the levelup team is being goals and approaches on a regional level. In addition to this, three articles have already been supported by the Bundesverband Altbauerneuerung (Federal Association for the Renewal of published in local newspapers about THRO’s participation in the SDE competition in Wupper- Old Buildings), who specialize in the renovation and conversion of old buildings to sustaina- tal. Even more recently, the first scientific article has been published, and several conference ble and climate-neutral building stock. Companies such as Tjiko GmbH, Fritz Egger GmbH & papers have been submitted to scientific conferences dealing with topics that play major roles Co. OG, Knauf Gips KG, Schüller Möbelwerk KG, Schattdecor AG, and others are supporting us in our design. For example, initial results concerning our solar panel design will be presented with innovative interior design solutions. Insights into the world of real estate and the housing at the Photovoltaic Symposium and the EU PVSEC (European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Con- industry are being provided by VDW, GRWS Rosenheim, B&O Gruppe, and the Siedlungswer- ference and Exhibition). The Rosenheim levelup team is an interdisciplinary and multi-faceted ke Nuremberg. Currently, CampusRo Projektentwicklungs GmbH & Co. KG is building a new crew of motivated students, professors and commercial companies that develops innovative student housing complex with an integrated boarding house on the Rosenheim campus, and and transferable solutions for the urban energy transition. due to similar goals to the SDE21 competition, there has been a close cooperation between the two groups. The ift Rosenheim (Institute for Window Technology), which provides access to testing facilities, also ensures that products that are being developed specifically for the competition can be tested in a compliant manner and prepared for the commercial market. In the fields of energy and building technology, Duschl Ingenieure and Tobler GmbH & Co. KG are both very active and reliable partners. For energy planning and design, we work together closely with Vela Solaris AG, Valentin Software GmbH, and Meteotest AG.

22 23 In terms of computer aided drafting (CAD) and digital construction planning (building information modelling), we can count on the expertise of vrame Consult GmbH, BIM R, and Ed. Züblin AG. They have also been active in organizing and offering BIM relevant seminars. We are particularly pleased about the support from the Seeoner Kreis e.V., a regional business association that has committed itself to actively promoting important economic, social, and political issues in the south-east of Bavaria. Particularly high priority is given to the promotion and support of the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences, and thus also to the advancement of the levelup team. The Sparkassenstiftung (Savings Bank Foundation) of the city and district of Rosenheim, has also been very generous in providing us with financial support. Politically, we are honoured to have the support of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, as well as from the Bavarian State Ministry for Housing, Construction, and Transport.

We are pleased about every form of support that we receive, and are very grateful for our partners and sponsors. Have we awoken your interest in supporting the Rosenheim team with a financial contribution and/or with your know-how? Would you like to achieve something big together? Then please get in touch with us with a short introduction to [email protected]. The entire team is looking forward to your enquiry.

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Figure 7: levelup team crew, © levelup I SDE21 Figure 11: focus on details, © levelup I SDE21 28 29 Figure 12: set up of our conceptual floor plan for the prototpy on a 1:1 scale, © levelup I SDE21 Figure 13 - 15: renderings of our prototyp, © levelup I SDE21 30 31 solar 21 decathlon europe WUPPERTAL GERMANY

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