Right now, the work from the Bucky Lab is on display at the Hortus Botanicus in Delft. Among the trees, in filtered daylight, the projects feel surprisingly at home—almost as if they were always meant to be there.
The exhibition shows the outcomes of our recent Bucky Lab assignment, where Building Technology students from TU Delft were asked to tackle a very real and urgent problem: overheating in temporary housing at COA locations.
Instead of redesigning the container units themselves, the focus was on what can be added. Lightweight, modular, and scalable interventions that improve comfort without increasing complexity.
What you see here are different approaches to that question.
From façade-based shading systems to secondary skins, from adaptive elements to simple but effective add-ons—each proposal explores how to stop heat before it enters the space.
Placed in the calm environment of the botanical garden, the projects gain a new layer.
They are no longer just technical solutions, but small architectural statements—prototypes that sit somewhere between building, product, and landscape.
As always in the Bucky Lab, the goal is not only to think, but to make.
To test ideas at full scale. To explore what works, what fails, and what could be applied in reality.
The exhibition is open to visitors of the Hortus Botanicus Delft—so if you are around, take a walk, and have a closer look.
more info about the botanical garden here
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