smart cities, energy transition

Team VIRTUe

is participating in the Solar Decathlon Europe in Germany with a sustainable house and design of an urban concept to transform the built environment and activate people to change habits

construction of the house

About us

Why?

As the engineers of the future, we have a responsibility to tackle global sustainability problems. These problems are not just environmental but also social and economic. 

With SDE21 set in Wuppertal and having a strong urban orientation, we are aiming to create a holistic solution that addresses not only environmental sustainability, but also socio-economic issues such as lifestyle, affordability, and overconsumption of space. 

How?

Our concept is centred around three main concepts: sustainable lifestyle, demographic diversity and urban intensification. We believe the built environment can be transformed to promote a sustainable lifestyle through collaboration between active users and passive systems. We aim to make sustainable living affordable, by creating a design that is useful to a wide range of people; a building that provides diverse functions for diverse demographics. Our proposal focuses on intensifying and efficiently using spaces by combining functions, on both building and urban scale  

Our building will be a microcosm of our vision on an urban scale– a lively, interactive space which has a use 24/7. 

What?

With our concept, RIPPLE, we want to propose a solution for the disconnection between people and the changes they want to see in cities.

We aim to transform the static built environment, prompt social interaction in cities, and activate people to embrace an environmentally friendly lifestyle.

With RIPPLE, we throw a stone that has the power to both engage individuals on a personal level and to create a framework that encourages social interaction. The action on both the apartment and building scale as well as on the urban scale allows us to spark small combined actions that create a strong influence and have a larger and longer lasting impact, rather than doing one large act of sustainability and hoping others will follow.

AND?

Ripple has obtained the second prize at the Solar Decathlon Europe 2021-2022!

  • 04 Oct
    Formation and Optimization of Halide Perovskite Interfaces from First Principles

    PhD defense Sofia Apergi

    October 4, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 04 Oct
    Non-Oxidative Coupling of Methane over Heterogeneous Catalysts: Understanding Surface and Gas-Phase Processes

    PhD defense Hao Zhang

    October 4, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 04 Oct
    Make Differences Count

    PhD defense Janna Heynen-Behnke

    October 4, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 05 Oct
    Behavior of nanoparticles on surfaces exposed to EUV environments

    PhD defense Dmitry Shefer

    October 5, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 05 Oct
    A heartbeat for soft robots

    PhD defense Lucas Carolus van Laake

    October 5, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 06 Oct
    Wafer Stage Motion Control

    PhD defense Nic Jasper Dirkx

    October 6, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 06 Oct
    July 7, 2023

    Embracing Diversity and Social Justice in Social Robotics

    October 6, 2023 1:30 PM / Zwarte Doos (Movie theatre), Campus TU/e

  • 06 Oct

    Valedictory lecture prof.dr. Peter Hilbers

    Prof.dr. Peter Hilbers was appointed as a part-time professor of Large-Scale Computing at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science…

  • 06 Oct
    Unravelling the dynamic interplay between prostate cancer and its microenvironment

    PhD defense Anniek Zaalberg

    October 6, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 07 Oct
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    Bachelor Open Day

    October 7, 2023 / TU/e campus

  • 08 Oct
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    June 13, 2023

    TU/e Running Team | ASML Marathon Eindhoven

    Sign up for the TU/e Running Team and get a discount on a start ticket for the Eindhoven Marathon and a free TU/e Running Team T-shirt.

  • 08 Oct

    ASML Marathon Eindhoven | TU/e Running Team

    October 8, 2023 8:30 AM / Eindhoven

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