climate

futures


On view at the Liberty Research Annex
October 17, 2024 - January 1, 2025


about
projects
  1. 22/26 Midwest
  2. Ambiguous Territory
  3. Annotation and Insulation
  4. Asutsuare Rebound
  5. Atlas of the Trans-Apocalypse
  6. Becoming Biomass
  7. Bespoke Ultra-Thin Layered 3D-printed Reusable Wood-Bio-Based Formwork for Casting Complex Concrete Geometries
  8. Branch Wall: Geometrically Informed Non-Planar Toolpath and Material Deposition
  9. Deploy 2.0
  10. Detroit Cultural Center
  11. Elephant in the Room, and Other Fables
  12. Fabric-Formed Unstabilized Poured Earth
  13. Frie(s/d)
  14. Functionally Graded Additive Manufacturing
  15. Guidance for Designing and Implementing Constitutionally Valid Local Plans and Regulations to Protect Landmarked Trees, Woodlands, and Tree Canopy in Michigan
  16. Heat and Housing: Co-producing Passive Cooling Strategies and Promoting Health in Informal and Precarious Settlements
  17. Hygroscopic Envelope: Building Enclosures for Climate Adaptation
  18. In My Backyard
  19. In-Svalbard: Cold Coast Atlas
  20. Land, Foodways, and Kinship: The Case of Palestinian Villages
  21. Light Forms
  22. MiCE Architecture: Design Strategies to Mitigate Michigan Coastal Erosion
  23. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
  24. Myco-Composite Furniture
  25. Post Rock Post-Industrial Plastic Facade
  26. re:FE Reimagining Mining Waste from a Wounded Region
  27. Shell Wall: Coupling Non-Planar Robotic 3D Concrete Printing and Topology Optimization
  28. Solar Technology Integration on Building Facades
  29. The Canopy
  30. The Lifespan Project
  31. Unfolding Forms of Conveyance
  32. Urban Climate Law Series
  33. Vertical Wetlands





22/26 Midwest
GG Kirchner, Lars Junghans, Steven Schenk
2024

01

The innovative integrative technology presented in this proposal, 22/26 Midwest, is based on and extends research on the design of net-zero buildings conducted at the University of Michigan in recent years. The original 22/26 building is in the cold climate of Lustenau/Austria. 22/26 Midwest builds on the above-mentioned technologies and adapts them for the climate in the midwestern US.

Implementation of a novel plug-and-play predictive building automation system (Research Task I)

The novel predictive building automation system in “22/26 Midwest” will enable the control of the thermal status of the building by predicting and controlling the interactions between thermal flow and the internal thermal capacity of the building. The thermal capacity retains and releases heat in response to the ambient temperature.

Thermal and Hydrodynamic Capacity of Construction Materials (Research Task II)

Higher thermal capacity or thermal mass inside the building is a key part of the 22/26 concept because higher thermal capacity reduces the energy demand for heating and cooling significantly. Internal thermal capacity works like a heat buffer. It absorbs heat when the room is hot and releases the heat when it is cold. The hydrodynamic property of certain materials absorbs the humidity from the room air and therefore reduces the relative humidity of the air.

Additional credits
Jared Hensley