Multi-sensory solutions for increasing human-building resilience in face of climate change

Project Information

MuSIC

Grant agreement ID: 101073357

DOI

10.3030/101073357

EC signature date 6 July 2022

Start date 1 December 2022

End date 30 November 2026

Funded under

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Total cost

No data

EU contribution

€ 2 655 820,80

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM AACHEN
Germany

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MuSIC (Multi-sensory solutions for increasing human-building resilience in face of climate change)

Reporting period: 2022-12-01 to 2024-11-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

Given the ongoing energy crisis, the accelerating climate change, and experience from the pandemic forcing us indoors and increasing disparities, it is once more time to ask: in which way should we approach the provision of indoor climatic conditions? Which approach makes us humans within the human-built environmental system most resilient in face of these challenges?
Current solutions usually address singular sensory stimuli like thermal triggers alone; however, humans are constantly exposed to multiple stimuli like temperature-related triggers, light, noise and air pollution, which interact with each other. With a focus on Europe’s existing buildings, the MuSIC project envisions cities with indoor and outdoor spaces that are more liveable and sustainable.
Hence, the main objectives of MuSIC are:
- train top-level early-carrier researchers and highly qualified professionals with high expertise in the fields of human physiology, human perception, human health, thermophysiologicalmodelling, psychophysical modelling, interface design, passive and hybrid building strategies, energy efficient building solutions, building energy performance - simulation, and self sensing technologies
- increase the employability and help satisfying the rising demand for such qualified researchers and professionals making them ready to join industries, companies, research centres, universities and local or national management institutions related to the MuSIC topics
- push forward the scientific frontiers of passive and hybrid design and operation solutions to provide European and other citizens with more liveable environments and more predictable, acceptable and sustainable solutions to increase the resilience in face of climate change
- consolidate and expand the network of collaborations among the partners through the creation of an integrated, long-term research and training base in the EU that brings togetheruniversities, research institutes, industrial companies and stakeholders active in key research,development and management disciplines
- enhance academia-industry Transfer of Knowledge in both directions and obtain full value from the network by disseminating results in open access peer-reviewed scientific journals, trade magazines and international conferences and developing innovative solutions for passive and hybrid solutions of the future
The ultimate objective of MuSIC is to train new professionals able to provide future generations with more liveable and sustainable indoor and outdoor spaces in cities by applying solutions developed through cutting-edge, multisensory and multi-dimensional research and industrial development

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

In the first project period, the Doctoral Candidates (DCs) accustomed themselves with their individual topics and the focus was on designing and refining their data collection methods.
In all Individual Research Projects (IRPs), the DCs made substantial progress by initiating and partly finishing first data collections. Among these are experimental laboratory studies considering multi-domain interactions, field observations, and simulation studies within the framework of the MuSIC topic.
Mostly, data collection was just finished at this stage, so that analysis and publication of results is not complete at this stage, but will continue in the second half of the IRPs and the MuSIC project.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

At this stage, it is too early to report results and impact beyond state of the art, because data collection was just completed or is still ongoing, so that results will get available in the second half of the project.