S1: Designing Associativity » iaac

Weight vs. Floor area

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

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.

Geolocated

Christoffer Ryan — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:08:54 +0000

Happy_planet_index

Irina Shaklova — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:48:58 +0000

Data source: http://www.happyplanetindex.org/data/

The Happy Planet Index (HPI) introduced by the New Economic Foundation (NEF) ranks 151 countries across the globe on the basis of how many long, happy and sustainable lives they provide for the people that live in them per unit of environmental output. Put another way, it represents the efficiency with which countries convert the Earth’s finite resources into well being experienced by their citizens.

The Global HPI incorporates three separate indicators:

1. Ecological footprint (the amount of land needed to provide for all their resource requirements plus the amount of vegetated land needed to absorb all their CO2 emissions and the CO2 emissions embodied in the products they consume)

2. Life satisfaction (health as well as “subjective well-being” components such as a sense of individual vitality, opportunities to undertake meaningful, engaging activities,
inner resources that help one cope when things go wrong, close relationships with friends and family, belonging to a wider community)

3. Life expectancy

The diagram represents 151 countries according to their position in the list.
The outer circle shows top 61 countries, inner circles represent countries with lower HPI.

Color code :

life expectancy, well-being and ecological footprint are given a traffic-light score based on thresholds for good (green), middling (yellow) and bad (red) performance. These scores are combined to an expanded traffic light for the overall HPI score, where, to achieve bright green a country would have to perform well on all three individual components.

*Red spheres display countries with life expectancy more 75 years

Semestral Index of European Minimun Wages

carlosbausa — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:42:18 +0000

Population and Methane

Tobias Øhrstrøm — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:41:03 +0000

POPULATION GROWTH

The temperature in the world is increasing. That is a fact. One of the input is for example the growing population in the world and the increased consumption of energy.
To visualize the growth, we have visualized all the countries of the world with a column, which height is determined by the given population for each tenth year.

RELEASE OF METHANE

The release of methane is a global warming time bomb. Fx the sibirian tundra is full off methane, which will be released when the global temperature will rise. Methane is 20 times more damaging for the ozonlayer compared to CO2. Releasing all methane at one time, will have the effect on the environment as a nuclearwar.

Release of methane in the nature is normal, but if the temperature will raise within few years, million tons of methane will be released within in a very short time, and will make a mayor impact on the ozonlayer.

This release is one of the positive feedback in terms of global warming, that will speed up the whole process.

In this assignment, we will see how the countries has added unnatural methane into the environment.