S1: Designing Associativity » galapagos

Morphing and Response surface analysis

Christoffer Ryan — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:55:56 +0000

Weight vs. Floor area

Irina Shaklova — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:16:54 +0000

Besos.ound

Miguel Juarez — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 03:31:54 +0000

For the task 3 of Design Associativity, we started by taking the most important information about Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Badalona and Sant Andreu in Barcelona, which is the place where one of us is working for the studio Emergent Territories.

The task started with an analysis of what it’s happening in this area because of the physical division that the river Besos creates. We mention the problematic by statistics of facts that occur in both sides and then we selected a random data about the sound and took it for develop a specific project for this subject.

We mapped the levels of sound where we can see that the noise is higher than the standars recommended for health, which are between 40 and 75 dBA.

Our concept tries to create a physical platform made of sound where we can connect the highest points and build a pedestrian path that changes depending of the sound data in real time, according to the amount of people that are interacting in this area.

We translate the dBA data into a 3D surface and we run it in Galapagos to find what we think is the most optimun level for the people of this place, allowing them to escape from the noise, improving their pedestrian way to live.

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.

TENSIONADA

sofiakcomt — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:36:30 +0000

Textile structure for Barcelona area using Kangaroo, Geco and Galapagos.

The task was to use Galapagos to optimize a shape using evolucionary computation, for that I design a textile structure to provide shade and cover in an area in the City of Barcelona. For a more accurate shape I used Kangaroo to apply gravity forces in the structure and stiffness for the springs that support the textile.

I´ve also used Geco plugin to calculate the total radiation analysis from Ecotect and imported to my Rhino surface, The idea was to optimize the position of the textile and stiffness of the springs to give more shade to pedestrians placing the fabric in a position that will block more radiation.

Parameters considered:

- Total radiation (all year)

- Gravity forces

- Spring stiffness

- Weather file from barcelona

RESULT OF GALAPAGOS SOLVER

Calabi–Yau_Theoretical Physics of Methane Behaviour

katerynarogynska — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:00:51 +0000

HIGH DENSITY ENERGY STORAGE USING SELF-ASSEMBLED MATERIALS

The assignment is related to our methane research for the Self Sufficient studio. The challenge of this exercise is to propose an approach in theoretical design of material at the atomic scale that can maximize the amount of stored of methane in a given volume. The methane molecules are attracted to surfaces, while being repelled from each other. We attempt to simulate the interaction between methane and the Calabi-Yau surface area of a hypothetically ideal “methane-catching” material in a sample volume (scale of a methane molecule: pico meters).

___________INTRO

Porous crystals (Metal-Organic Frameworks) are excellent materials for natural gas storage due to their nanoscopic pores and incredibly high surface area. The script generates hypothetical metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), visualizing the most promising structures. MOFs then can be synthesized and tested in the laboratory conditions.

A Calabi-Yau space is used by physicists to describe parts of nature that are too small to see with naked human eye. It is believed, that matter is composed of atoms, and the distances between the components of the atoms are measured at 0.000000000000001 meters (pico meters). Methane CH4 is comprised of one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen. The diameter of the entire molecule is 398.8 pico meters. In the script we will be attempting to optimize the population of CH4 molecules attracted to the surface while ignoring the molecules free floating in-between.

___________DISCRETIZATION

The geometrical structure of methane molecule is a tetrahedron. Since a tetrahedron can be inscribed into a sphere, we are using later geometry in our optimization. The number of molecules will be counted according to the spheres’ diameter, projected onto the surface.

___________LOGIC

\\find the bounding box of the mesh

\\populate the bounding box with a 3dimensional diagrid of spheres that are their own radius’s distance from their neighbour

\\find which spheres collide with the mesh

\\cull all spheres that do not collide

\\run galapagos in different surface and angle configurations

___________ITERATIONS

Using galapagos we generated different options according to our variables in the solution space.