TY - ADVS
T1 - Working Prototypes
T2 - Streamlines, Vortices & Plumes: Environmental Models and their Shifting Targets
A2 - Moffitt, Lisa
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - This exhibition featured prototypes and associated documentation of three types of environmental model — wind tunnels, water tables, and filling tanks — all of which make airflow associated with natural ventilation visible. This exhibition hypothesised about how physical environmental models operate as contemporary architectural design tools. The models were designed, constructed and calibrated to create continuous, steady air-flow. Insights about architectural environmental mediation were revealed through the iterative prototyping process. It is through the process of trying to make the environmental work as a mechanical device that it works most effectively as a conceptual design device. These insights are in some cases tectonic, revealing ways of thinking about joints, surfaces, and assembly logics. They are in other cases responses to natural forces associated with pressure of air or weight of water. Fundamentally, the prototyping process revealed air’s extreme sensitivity to both constructional anomalies and external disruption, revealing the complexity of creating a steady-state environment.
AB - This exhibition featured prototypes and associated documentation of three types of environmental model — wind tunnels, water tables, and filling tanks — all of which make airflow associated with natural ventilation visible. This exhibition hypothesised about how physical environmental models operate as contemporary architectural design tools. The models were designed, constructed and calibrated to create continuous, steady air-flow. Insights about architectural environmental mediation were revealed through the iterative prototyping process. It is through the process of trying to make the environmental work as a mechanical device that it works most effectively as a conceptual design device. These insights are in some cases tectonic, revealing ways of thinking about joints, surfaces, and assembly logics. They are in other cases responses to natural forces associated with pressure of air or weight of water. Fundamentally, the prototyping process revealed air’s extreme sensitivity to both constructional anomalies and external disruption, revealing the complexity of creating a steady-state environment.
M3 - Exhibition
ER -