The aim of the MuD SAL­IX AFS is the estab­lish­ment and sus­tain­able pro­duc­tion of suit­able wil­low types with spe­cif­ic ma­te­rial and growth char­ac­teris­tics in mul­ti­func­tio­n­al agro­forestry sys­tems (AFS). The wil­low serves us as a high-qual­i­ty raw ma­te­rial in two ways: The wil­low wood is used for fur­ther pro­cess­ing to make end­less wil­low wood thread and wil­low wood tex­tile. Sal­i­cy­lates for medicine and cos­met­ics are ex­tract­ed from the wil­low bark. The en­tire val­ue chain of wil­low wood is anal­ysed: for each ac­tor from cul­ti­va­tion to the high­ly refined prod­uct, tak­ing in­to ac­count and eval­u­at­ing soil, cli­mate, wa­ter bal­ance and bio­di­ver­si­ty-pro­mot­ing mea­sures.

Bau Kunst Erfn­den is col­lab­o­rat­ing on a new sys­tem called So­larChip with the Helmholtz-Zen­trum Ber­lin für Ma­te­rialien und En­ergie and a con­sor­ti­um of six part­n­ers from in­dus­try. In­no­va­tive façade el­e­ments are bee­ing de­vel­oped that can ac­com­mo­date so­lar el­e­ments of any type or gen­er­a­tion, in­clud­ing fu­ture gen­er­a­tions that have yet to be de­vel­oped.

From Ju­ly 2021, BAU KUNST ERFIN­D­EN and the In­sti­tute of Ma­te­rials Sci­ence at Hof Uni­ver­si­ty of Ap­plied Sci­ences will co­op­er­ate in the TERA X | Braid­ed Wood pro­ject. The aim of the pro­ject is to de­vel­op tubu­lar solid wood braids as tex­tile se­mi-fin­ished prod­ucts for ar­chi­tec­ture and con­struc­tion. Our cont­in­u­ous fil­a­ment of solid wood meets in­dus­trial braid­ing robots. The pro­ject is fund­ed within the frame­work of the Forschungsini­tia­tive Zukunft Bau by the Fed­er­al In­sti­tute for Re­search on Build­ing, Ur­ban Af­fairs and Spa­tial Plan­n­ing´of the Fed­er­al Min­istry of the In­te­ri­or, Build­ing and Com­mu­ni­ty.