TESSOL

Solar powered fabric

Nowadays, the generation of solar energy by private individuals is still a marginal activity. In an urban scenario, it is almost unthinkable. In our project, daily routines were reconsidered and linked to solar energy collection.

TESSOL is a versatile and flexible fabric that can adapt to different contexts and moments in everyday urban life, thanks to its aesthetics and possible scales. The particular texture is achieved by tessellating the solar cells according to the Voronoi principle, which creates a mathematically describable division of a plane into polygons. The fabric collects solar energy that can be used on the spot or used to charge a portable battery. Thanks to the batteries, the accumulated energy can be used at another time during the day. The batteries themselves vary in size and are adjusted to fit the textile size so that they can be charged in a reasonable amount of time.

Semester project summer term 2022

Collaboration with Amy Graves

Supervised by Prof. Carola Zwick and Prof. Judith Glaser in collaboration with the eLAB headed by Dipl. Designer Felix Groll

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