TUM Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design

The aim of Chair's research is the decarbonization of the built environment and climate change adaptation strategies (indoors and outdoors), while better understanding environmental quality. The desire and need to simplify and
standardize building construction has been studied in several research projects in collaboration with other professors mainly from architecture and civil engineering. Another focus is the building operation, and its interaction with the energy infrastructure.

More recent studies focus on quantifying and analysing user perception, behaviour and well-being, both in the indoor and outdoor environments. In order to achieve a higher user satisfaction, some research projects investigate the relationship of user controlled environments based on subjective desires. Such an approach can only be successful if supply strategies are decentralized and integrated in building components. components. In addition to that, the thresholds of any kind of conditioning requirement, spatial and/or temporal, are being explored by looking at "comfort"; from a different perspective: Together with professionals and researchers from medical fields, and by looking directly at psychophysiological responses of the occupants under different environmental conditions, a new definition of dynamic comfort is being examined.