Dr. Peter Kuczia: Archetypes of Solar Architecture Co-Hosted By: NRW Global Business Japan and AIA Japan

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 19:00 – 21:00 (Networking and Refreshments Afterwards)

SPEAKER BIO:

Peter Kuczia is an educator and expert in sustainable constructions with more than twenty years of experience. In 2008 he completed his Ph.D. dissertation on solar architecture in Germany. He is an author of ‘Educating Buildings – Learning Sustainability through Displayed Design’. He has been awarded multiple international prizes, including International Design Award (US), Iconic Award (DE), DNA Paris Design Awards (FR), LICC London Creative Competition (UK), German Design Award (DE), a national nomination to the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture, and many others. His work has been exhibited and published around the world. He is a jury member in international competitions and initiator and curator of the Design that Educates Awards.

LECTURE DESCRIPTION:

The presentation defines the concept of solar architecture and shows its spectrum and significance. In his dissertation, Kuczia has analyzed hundreds of solar buildings in Germany and, on this basis, identified 12 archetypical solutions that occur separately or grouped together in every existing solar building. Knowledge of this classification enables the designer to make an informed choice of possible solar solutions and to design architecture that makes reasonable use of solar radiation. Kuczia presents and discusses individually these solar archetypes, illustrating each of them with his own build projects and designs. Solutions of this type often go unnoticed by the users and visitors of buildings. With the “Educating Buildings”  concept, it is possible to communicate such solutions by displaying them directly in buildings. In this way, buildings can informally educate their users – as evidenced by the concept implemented by the author at Solarlux-Campus in Germany.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Learn about solar architecture. Understand how it manifests itself in the built environment and why it is relevant today?
2.  Identify 12 design solutions that give buildings a solar character as a tool to support architect’s design work.
3.  Analyze how these solutions can be applied in practice – illustrated by the author’s exemplary projects
4.  Apply concept of “Educating Buildings“ that shows how buildings can informally educate the sustainable solutions they represent: Buildings as Exhibits.