S1: Designing Associativity » Akanksha Rathee

HydroPanel

pongtidasantayanon — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:04:28 +0000

Hydro Panel

//The panel is made by two surfaces containing hydrogel spheres in between. It works as a cooling facade system which absorbs water from the rain and keeps the facade cool for a longer time as the water evaporates slowly.

Setup

//The volume required by one sphere of hydrogel to grow to its maximum size is 4 cm3. By tilting one cell of the panel we can determine the area of the triangle in which the water will collect. By associating this area to the magnitude of estrusion the cell will always have the volume of the container enough for one sphere. The rest of the area needs to be perforated for the collection of water and ventilation.

Parameters and optimization

//The parameters used to optimize the geometry of the cell are the volume of water required by one sphere, the total exposed surface area and the size of perforations on the inside. The volume is kept constant while maximizing the exposed area and size of perforations on the outside and the minimizing the size of perforations on the inside.

A.2 Track my Track

Stephanie Bashir — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:15:57 +0000

Being all students at IaaC, it is no surprise that many of us share very similar living patterns including the ways in which we move around in this small beautiful city. Nonetheless, we mostly come from different parts of the world bringing along our personal tastes of place, commuting habits and preferences.

Living in the same area in Barcelona (Born), it was of interest to us (Sinem, Stephanie and Akanksha R.) to compare tracks over a short period of few days in an attempt to draw some information regarding our commuting and maneuvering patterns in Barcelona.

Using different Apps, we exported data in .gpx format to be later on extracted as individual input parameters to be visualized in a variety of ways. The track points have been mapped and scaled in reference to 2 points of relevance (Santa Caterina Market and IaaC). Information such as speed was visualized in the form of vertical lines and juxtaposed in the form of growing circles for comparative purposes.

MAPPING VALUES OF COMMON WORDS BETWEEN SUNSIGNS

akanksharathee — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:21:11 +0000

These visualisations try to develop relationships between different sunsigns by mapping the number of common words found in between them from the data set of the most commonly found words in online horoscopes. The data set was collected from 22,000 different samples and by visualising the common words we can see similarities and dissimilarities in between.

Here you can see all the individual Charts.

These twelve charts study one sunsign’s relationship with all the others. After the number of common words are computed they are rearranged in ascending order and used to make a polar chart which gives a particular zodiac sign’s relationship with all the other ones. On the top part of each chart we can see the extreme values of the chart. For example for Aries we can see that it has maximum number of words in common with Capricorn and minimum with Taurus.

This is a comprehensive diagram not only showing the signs that have maximum and minimum words in common with one particular sign but also we can follow one line and see at what position it lies in relation to other signs in other charts. For example we can start with Aquarius and see that with Aries it is second after Capricorn, with Cancer the highest with capricorn third and with Gemini the second lowest and so on.

This diagram shows two levels of co-relations. For example we can see that Cancer has a high number of common words with Aquarius but we can also very easily see that that number is higher than the values between other relationships.

Reference and Data Source - http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2011/horoscoped/