IN THE WAKE: DRAWINGS DYNAMICS OF VORTICAL STRUCTURES
Project Date: January 27th, 2022-March 10th, 2022
Type: Interdisciplinary Research and Design
Pari Riahi, Team Leader and PI
Yahya Modarres Sadeghi, CO-PI: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, UMass Amherst
Ali Sarvghad, C0-PI: College of Computer Science and Information technology, UMass Amherst
Pieter Boersma, (PHD ME 2023)
Adrian Carleton, (PHD ME 2024)
Erica Dewitt, (MARCH 2023)
Cami Quinteros, (MARCH 2022)
Fey Thurber, (BSARCH 2022)
This project investigates processes of visualizing a natural phenomenon in Fluid Dynamics, Vortex Induced Vibrations, through a collaboration among mechanical engineers, architects, and computer scientists. Our drawings, models, and artifacts capture ways in which a phenomenon can be studied, interpreted and understood. Starting with a series of fluid mechanic experiments, which were used to produce architectural drawings, the project evolves into an augmented investigation that shed light on that scientific finding, while also proliferating to offer formal and spatial possibilities for architecture.