A balcony in the summer, living space in the winter

A sliding door turns the balcony into indoor living space. (Image: flissade GmbH
A sliding door turns the balcony into indoor living space. (Image: flissade GmbH)
Entrepreneurship - As enjoyable as a balcony is in the summer, it usually spends the winter months virtually deserted. So why not do without the balcony and increase the amount of interior living space instead? Thanks to the Munich start-up flissade, founded by former Technical University of Munich (TUM) students, this question can be resolved as desired on a day to day basis. The young innovators recently won a number of awards for start-up companies. Is it right that term projects should take up so much time and energy, only to end up gathering dust in a desk drawer? Not at all: For two former TUM architecture students, Lisbeth Fischbacher and Daniel Hoheneder, a single term project has changed their entire lives. " Prof. Gerhard Hausladen - a top name worldwide in the field of building energy technologies - usually had an awful lot to say when discussing term projects," Hoheneder recalls. "But he didn't have any comments at all for us. Silence.
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