Check out the video presentation of the ‘New Campus Franklin University Switzerland’ project. It’s the third of five projects featured in the docu-film ‘Energy and design: building with integrated photovoltaics’, produced by SUPSI – Institute for Applied Sustainability in the Built Environment (ISAAC) – as part of the European Seamless-PV project.

The new campus of Franklin University Switzerland is characterized by two distinct architectonic blocks, with one being a communal and educational space and one designed for university accommodation. The architecture intended for the public spaces is highly innovative. It is cladded with a dynamic system of white photovoltaic louvres and it features one of Europe’s first vertical photovoltaic louvres that follow the sun’s orientation. This mechanism makes the building more sustainable from an environmental point of view and simultaneously guarantees energy generation and shading within the spaces for greater thermal and visual comfort.