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Transformative building enclosures<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor of Architecture<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Kyoung Hee Kim<\/a>, professor of architecture and director of the Integrated Design Research Lab<\/a>, leads a research project that could revolutionize building enclosures: a window system that incorporates a network of screens filled with microalgae. Funded by a $1 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), her third NSF grant for this work, Kim is developing a high-performing window system that reduces building energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been more than a decade since Kim began her microalgae fa\u00e7ade research. It was in her first design studio at UNC Charlotte, which was focused on building enclosures, that Kim developed the unusual idea to include microalgae in building fa\u00e7ade technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted to make transformative enclosures,\u201d she says, \u201crather than fa\u00e7ades that make incremental advancements.\u201d That was Spring 2011. She wrote and received her first research grant that semester, a $15,000 \u201cPeople, Planet, Prosperity\u201d award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA-P3). Since then she has received two Upjohn Research Initiative grants from the American Institute of Architects and three NSF grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"diagramMicroalgae is truly a \u201cgreen\u201d building material. \u201cAlgae has very effective carbon sequestration, doesn\u2019t require land to grow, and doesn\u2019t require agricultural water,\u201d Kim says. \u201cIt can use salty water or waste water, for example.\u201d The microalgae windows could have multiple environmental benefits, including solar shading and thermal insulation, in addition to carbon sequestration. Not only could that result in lower energy costs and cleaner indoor air, but the algae can also be collected and converted into biofuel, producing a renewable energy source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim\u2019s commitment to environmental sustainability initiated during her childhood in Korea, where there was an energy crisis in the 1980s. She grew up in Jeonju, a provincial capital city known for its traditional architecture and culture. Her father was in construction, and her uncle came to the United States to study transportation engineering and infrastructure at Michigan State University. Kim, the oldest of four children, received a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering and a Master of Architectural Engineering from Chungbuk National University in Korea and then decided to follow her uncle\u2019s path to Midwest America. She enrolled at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and eventually earned two master\u2019s degrees and a PhD in Architecture and began her study of biopolymer and biocomposite fa\u00e7ade systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While a student at the University of Michigan, Kim met Yaushun Hui, an architecture student from Hong Kong who shared her interest in sustainability. The two married in 2002 and moved to New York City, where Hui practiced as a licensed architect, and Kim became a fa\u00e7ade consultant at Front, Inc. They have three sons. In 2019, Kim obtained her architect license and started a practice with her husband, Hui Kim Design & Architecture (HKDNA). She is also the founder of EcoClosure, a UNC Charlotte spin-off clean tech start-up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the next two years, the SBIR Phase II grant will allow Kim to prototype the biochromic window, integrated with an intelligent control system to enable maximum performance; conduct performance testing and obtain performance certificates; scale-up mass production manufacturing; and carry out field testing and performance evaluation at early adopter\u2019s buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have been contacted for a few potential installation sites, including museums, residential buildings, commercial office, and industry spaces,\u201d Kim said. \u201cAs you know, real world installation requires much rigorous testing and vetting processes before actual operations, and this NSF grant allows us to continue that next round of R&D activities. Our end goal is to be able to mass produce the system with an attractive cost for wide users and to obtain performance certificates from government authorized agencies.\u201d
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