RAIN MANIFESTO
methodologies | modelling by reza aliabadi
rain waves rupture form landscape
There was a water-drop, it joined the sea, A speck of dust, it was fused with earth; What of your entering and leaving this world? A fly appeared, and disappeared.
—Omar Khayam
This proposal for a required metonymised object is derived through the simple extru- sion of the not-yet-present volumetric capability of the site as a flexible domain which has been interrupted by random falling drops of rain within a specific time frame. To illustrate this experiment, a wave rupture has been modelled in a domain of 60m by 180m (the shape and proportion of the site). Ten drops of rain that hit the surface of this domain in random locations, time delays, amplitudes and frequencies, originate ten waves. The impact of this rupture has been simulated in MATLAB for 49 seconds, and freeze-frames of the pattern are produced every 7 seconds. These indexical diagrams have been transformed and re-read as a manifestation of becoming — the resultant object/project is the action of becoming rather than a representation of function and program. Voids in random diameter and depth, with unpredictable spatial intersections and super-positions, provide a different kind of space and place in an architectural realm. Conventionally, architecture is a considerable rupture on earth in term of scale, en- ergy, time and material, and inevitably leaves traces, footprints, effects and changes – but to what extent, and by what means and intentions? Here, in this experiment, the architecture is a result of an interruption by a very natural phenomenon. *
Design: atelier rzlbd Contact: www.rzlbd.com Scientific consultant, wave study & modelling: Amir A Aliabadi Wave Equation: EMBED Equation.3 Wave Average Power: EMBED Equation.3 Wave Amplitude: EMBED Equation.3 Principle of Super Position: EMBED Equation.3
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On Site review 21: stormy weather
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