The building is a historic landmark within Delft and the TU Delft campus. The building hosts the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Technical University of Delft (TUD) from 2008. Before then, this building was the main building of the TU Delft University.
According to Köppen and Geiger, this climate is classified as Cfb. The average annual temperature is 10.8 °C. By 2030, TU Delft wants to operate completely sustainably. All activities on and from the campus will then be CO2-neutral, circular, climate-adaptive and contribute to the quality of life for its users and for nature. This building therefore has the ambition to become carbon neutral by 2030. Constructed in 1918-1923 by the archtitect G. van Drecht. The current Architecture Department (BK City) on Julianalaan served as the main building for the Technical University.
Our goal is to improve the operation of the building, the energy performance and the user comfort by intervening in the controls of smart blinds, HVAC and lights.The area of the intervention is the offices of the Architectural Technology section and consist of 200 m2. The challenges are related to the large number of different system the co-exist in the space for the conditioning and harmonizing their control in a interoperable manner. In addition, the spaces is characterized by diverse occupancy patterns, with some users coming often on site and others very rarely.
