#analog model

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END OF SEMESTER REVIEW - SITE MODELS IN 1/32 AND 1/16 SCALE.

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FACADE STUDY MODEL - SAUERBRUCH + HUTTON, BERLIN

this german / english architecture office often works with colored glass and ceramics for their facades......

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Sauerbruch Hutton is an architecture practice based in Berlin, Germany.

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PHYSICAL MODELS AND TREES - examples

trees can be abstracted as vertical elements - part of the tectonic composition of an architectural proposal - using for example wooden dowels, metal rods, pins, etc.

various diameters and heights of these elements depict a variety of trees.

regularity, density and repetition can be clearly represented.

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1-8″ = 1′-0″ SCALE MODELS

examples from instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/COsC1uIrcQI/?hl=en

image 1 (top):  Kolman Boye Architects; Ravine House, Skurusundet, Nacka, Sweden

Study model 1/100 (= 1/8″ = 1′-0″ scale) Description: "The building was conceived as a very strict three story house, where each story had its own direct access to the changing terrain levels outside. By moving back the building envelope partly into the side of the steep cliff, the additional height required for an extra story was made possible while keeping the impact minimal.

image 2:  Anonymous Architects; Carlyle Pl, Los Angeles, USA, 2020

Scale: 1/8" per foot Materials: Basswood, foam core

image 3:  Thomas-McBrien Architects; Langley Vale Visitor Centre, Surrey, UK

Scale: 1/100 (= 1/8″ = 1′-0″ scale) Materials: American maple, walnut and acid etched brass

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ARCHITECTURE STUDY MODELS......quick analog study models are a great tool to envision the 3-dimensional space; inserted objects, figures give them scale.

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MSME - MACK SCOGIN MERRILL ELAM - KNOWLTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, Columbus, Ohio

model in context.....modeled are the essential buildings framing the space into which the proposed building is inserted.....establishing THE SPACE CONTAINER FOR THE NEW BUILDING.

http://msmearch.com/type/academic/the-ohio-state-university-austin-e-knowlton-school-of-architecture

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This is the excerpt from the 30 minute test run for the analog channel-shape model.  I am still trying to calibrate the flow rate from the pump and decide on the appropriate rate for adding sand to get visible and repeatable results.

Despite the short comings (some leaks, calibrating water and sand flow) it appears that this model will allow for me to test the effects of shape changes (opening a new basin, flushing canal) as well as the distribution of entropy elements (pole fields, wing dams, dredge pits) that I have identified as the implementation strategies meant to allow me to trap sediments while also keeping a shallow navigational trunk line and access channels across the Riachuelo clear.  

You can start to see in this simple test the effects of basins and pits in allowing the settling of suspended sediments and trapping bed load.  After 30 minutes of testing these effects were beginning to manifest.  However, based on the small quantities and the need to see scaled-up results (due to the impossibility of scaling sediment and water, and the exaggerated vertical scale of the model) I plan to set up the experiment to be able to run each test for 2 hours, document it with video and time lapse photos.  I then plan to drain the model and photograph the sediments in their resting location (assuming they don't move too much during draining) and then collect and weigh the different sediments from each locations to understand proportional deposition.  I think this will then give me information that I can relate back to the matlab shoaling calculator, allowing me to spatialize the data outputs from that computation.