360-degree sustainable research

3D-animated TREE showroom goes live

New points of contact

The institute combines know-how from various departments, such as the natural sciences, electrical engineering and computer science. This diversity, explains Michael Meurer, one of TREE’s managing directors, should become clear when touring the showroom – on the one hand, to researchers who are looking for a link to the content of their own work and on the other, to companies from the industrial sector or institutions that deal professionally with the topic of sustainability. “We hope that these contacts will lead to new questions and topics for joint research projects or industrial services.”

In the middle of a towering spruce forest, in a light-flooded, white low-rise building with a glass roof through which you can see the treetops, lies the Institute for Technology, Resource and Energy-efficient Engineering (TREE). At least in its virtual form. In Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg’s new showroom, you can wander through this 3D-animated building – through a corridor with a “welcome video”, into a large hall with virtual walls displaying information boards and videos. You can also enter a laboratory.

In this environment, the institute, its technical equipment and its four research fields are presented via a 360-degree view. This includes Modelling and Simulation, Energy, Technology Transfer and Acceptance as well as Materials and Processes. Each field in turn is assigned research projects that visitors to the showroom can learn about via a simple click.

The Centre for Science and Technology Transfer (ZWT) took charge of the conceptual implementation of the TREE showroom, and the “Campus to World” project provided the funding. Based on TREE’s diverse research and thanks to the use of programming-design possibilities from the digital agency Panovia in Bonn, the institute’s internal AG Showroom was able to bring the exhibition rooms to life in a very appealing way.

Showroom of the Institute for Technology, Resource and Energyefficient Engineering (TREE): www.h-brs.de/en/tree/tree-showroom-innovation-mall