Featured in A solar lifeline – 07-2021

In Conversation: Don’t be afraid of BIPV

Necessity, as it’s said, is the mother of invention. For architect Samira Jama Aden, who plays a central role at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin’s BAIP consultancy for building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), the need for solar to be part of our built environment is becoming unavoidable. And for Aden, her mission is personal.

By

Jonathan Gifford

08 Jul 2021

Samira Jama Aden, architect. | Image: HZB/Katja Bilo

You started at BAIP in the latter stages of 2019. What kind of engagement did you have with PV before that time? Before BAIP, I was a researcher at the University of Kassel, where I studied architecture. In my Masters’ thesis, I began working on activating building materials with PV, and making smart materials. Then …

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