Press Kit Deliverable 4 Istanbul Technical University

deeplyhigh Press Kit Deliverable 4 Istanbul Technical University

Technical University of Applied Science Lübeck

Who are we?

“Deeply high” is an international, interdisciplinary project group for socially and environmental project development which is formed to participate in Solar Decathlon Europe in Wuppertal, in June 2022. The team’s vision is to develop the most effective and sustainable city models for the future by combining yesterday’s wisdom with today’s technology and prospective vision. Team Deeply High believes that this competition is a tremendous chance to participate in sustainable urban transformation and be part of a positive impact on the (built) environment.

What is the story behind us?

Team Deeply High believes that our homes can be rebuilt inspired by and in accrodance with nature. Combining yesterday’s wisdom with today’s technology will allow us to make it doable and accessible to everyone. Aiming to develop, to design and to plan vernacular architecture in a holistic approach for a sustainable, climate-resilient, and socially responsible built environment, the group was formed after Solar Decathlon Africa in Morocco in 2019. With architectural and construction expertise of Technische Hochschule Lübeck and energy and sustainability expertise of Istanbul Technical University, the group intends to combine their strengths into an interdisciplinary, international, and harmonious project. The group aims to build sustainable living spaces which are attainable for everyone. When people speak about architecture, it only refers to one aspect of the “built environment”. However, the term “Built environment” represents the physical frame for human’s lives; living, learning, producing and trading. We are clear on this holistic approach and strongly believe that as a group we can create this ecosystem where people live in harmony with nature without sacrificing the benefits of advanced technologies.

What will be done in SDE by us?

3 state capitol city from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, is an example for a densely populated city and a diverse community and demography – our project thus shall serve as an example for a broad mass of re-densification processes in prospective years in various cities and countries. Therefore, Team Deeply High develop and design solutions not only for one building, but a general concept for environmentally and socially viable life including building into already existing infrastructures. The team’s solutions include socially friendly architectural design for the strengthening of communities, sustainable material choices with a high urban mining and recycling potential, locally available resources, and renewable energies including not only standardized solutions like photovoltaic but algeatecture with algea from the Baltic sea. Urban gardening shall not only serve biodiversity and cooling of city temperatures, but also increase the awareness for regional food and community gardening. An integrative infrastructure and climate friendly urban mobility will help to show our approach for a successful urban transformation to resilient and climate friendly cities in a holistic approach not only for urban areas, but for various regions as well, which is why our project is made for “Stadt- Land-Rand” (“Town – Countryside – Conurban”).

Where to find us?

You can follow Team Deeply Highly, their inspiring design approach and CESA studies on the team’s social media accounts and website.

Instagram: teamdeeplyhigh_itu

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Website: https://www.deeply-high.com

Linkedin: Team Deeply High

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deeplyhigh Press Kit 4 List of Team Contacts

deeplyhigh Press Kit 5 “Deeply high” is an international, interdisciplinary project group with the aim to develop, design and plan vernacular architecture in a holistic approach for a sustainable, climate-resilient and socially responsible built environment. The group formed right after the previous Solar Decathlon Africa in Morocco in 2019 with architectural and construction expertise in the hands of the THL and energy and sustainability expertise especial at ITU.

With building materials being responsible for appr. 10% and production, operation and modernization even appr. 40% of global CO2emissions, the way of living and resource consumption has to change – especially because urbanization and thus building demands increase globally. Meanwhile, the housing market in Germany, especially in urban regions, conurbans and mostly big cities, is in the need of new residential buildings. An increasing demand for housing and apartments leads to an increase of prices for both property acquisition and rental costs, especially in metropolitan areas. These housing needs are met mostly through housing estates on the country sides and at the edges of agglomeration cities and new high rise buildings, neighborhood developments and re- densification within the cities. Nevertheless, even if new housing options are created, estate and rental costs are not decreasing. Also, increased biodiversity losses through soil sealing demand for different housing solutions than the common new housing estates. New methods of construction and redensification need to be found. Dealing with these challenges, we are also facing a social issue: Even if the degree of urbanisation is constantly increasing (from 75% in 2000 to 77.4% in 2019), the community tends to alienate. The social gap, also considering the average income of people, increases. Social media supports the change from a social real world to a more or less antisocial virtual world, where we do not know our neighbors but feel to know the whole world. Therefore, taking into account sustainability, energy efficiency, responsible resource management and strenghtening of social communities, important objectives of the project “Deeply High” are the revitalization and further development of typical already existing neighborhoods through renovation, transformation and reuse, as well as the development of solar energy supply concepts beyond the system boundaries of individual buildings.

During the Solar Decathlon, Team Deeply High develops the most environmentally friendly solution for re-densification in Kiel, Germany, by developing an integrative vertical extension for already existing buildings. Kiel as state capitol city from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, is an example for a densely populated city and a diverse community and demography – our project thus shall serve as an example for a broad mass of re- densification processes in prospective years in various cities and countries.

The team’s solutions include socially friendly architectural design for the strengthening of communities, sustainable material choices with a high urban mining and

recycling potential, locally available resources, and renewable energies including not only standardized solutions like photovoltaic but algeatecture with algea from the Baltic sea. Urban gardening and urban/in-house farming shall not only serve biodiversity and cooling of city temperatures, but also increase the awareness for regional food and community gardening. To that, we think of a multifunctional roof that is all in one: protection against overheating, surface for capturing solar radiation, regulator of microclimatic conditions (“green roof”), rainwater collection and rain protection.

An integrative infrastructure and climate friendly urban mobility will help to show our approach for a successful urban transformation to resilient and climate friendly cities in a holistic approach not only for urban areas, but for various regions as well, which is why our project is made for “Stadt-Land-Rand” (“Town – Countryside – Conurban”).

We follow the idea of LowTec first: We try to provide the best indoor climate as possible mainly by architectural design and its construction, considering simple, renewable and healthy materials and functional techniques. Moreover, in order to generate a good indoor climate, CO2-sensors and indicators are planned to be utilized. A system of cooling and heating, ventilation and electrical devices that are acting in adaptability to occupants’ needs will be part of the whole technical building equipment.

Our design will integrate a smart and healthy water management which includes water-saving systems, grey-water use and on-site grey-water treatment. We are thinking about integrating a smart energy administration to deal in an intelligent way for providing electricity as an additional energy next to solar energy through in-pipe turbogenerators. The feasibility of an organic PV system developed at the ITU will be assessed along with the operability of Bluetooth and wireless monitored faucets and valves. Resources such as human powered electricity generation will be exploited.

The way of building design, creating community spaces and affordability for all social classes in neighborhood development might support a stronger community building where we do not only care for ourselves, but for our surrounding community and the effect of the built environment on the natural environment as well.There is no doubt that the prospective decisions will be developed, cross-checked and elaborated by both groups in order to not only take advantage of each field expertise but to learn from each other with regards to cultural exchange.

Our main implementation for Stadt-Land-Rand as well as the demonstration unit in Wuppertal are planned, designed and calculated in dependence of their exisiting boundary conditions (regional, locally available materials and resources, traditional building styles, climate conditions, infrastructure and social situation). Meanwhile, these projects finally shall serve as case studys. Design and decision guidelines will be derived from the special case studys in order to apply the building appraoch to other regional boundary conditions and living circumstances. The overall aim is to reach huge effects in lowering both carbon emissions and social gaps by using scalability possibilities from the special project to broad applications.

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