Advection
Teaching Assistants: Maja Ozvaldic, Bence Pap and Kaiho Yu
Team:
Hao Wu, Chenke Zhang, Olga Filippova
Credits:
Concept Design, Scripting of Agent-Based Simulation in Unity, Air Form Finding with OpenVDB(Houdini), 3D Modeling, Architectural Section, Diagrams, Renderings
Keywords:
Urban Mobility, Robot Dynamism, Vienna Ring Street, Technoscape, The architecture of engineers, MAXXI
With justifiable cause, enclosed cabins with strangers are now feared and avoided. We no longer can squeeze rush hour capacities into tight elevators, social leisure spaces or meeting rooms. Where considerations of hygiene in shared spaces has been associated with sanitary surfaces in the past, today there is a focus on the rate of replenishment of indoor spaces with outdoor air. If distance from windows was once driven by proximity to daylight now the concern is access to climate.
The studio will be driven by a critical analysis of and creative sensibility of creating access to fresh air. Fundamental to the studio is the ability to append the conventional thinking about building design using volumes with an ability to design using particle flows. Using simulation tools for modelling and design, we will use particles from the scale of a person down to the scale of a voxel of cubic air as our modelling medium.
Computational fluid dynamics will inform the movement of fresh air as well as the movement of people both mechanically and as pedestrians. Air Infrastructure in the center replaces conventional circulation core to drive airflow vertically. Ferris wheels as the only mechanical circulation provide landing ports in a variety of heights, where isolated floors are extended to link all the occupiable spaces.
Final Review
Conceptual Diagram
Interior Rendering
Form Finding Process
Airflow Analysis with CFD Simulation
Hygiene Analysis with Agent-based Simulation