CHARRETTES FALL 2022 -

Part 1

Postcards from the future.

The postcards evoke “scenes” from the upcoming project, a proposal for the College of Design at Georgia Tech. These postcards were done prior to the start of design.

Academic Project

Georgia Institute of Technology

4th Year Studio

Instructor: Sabir Khan

Individual

Images retrived from Georgia Tech Digital Archive

1. Hinman Research Building 1951

2. ERA 1101 Computer Rich Electronic Computer Center 1954

3. Rich Electronic Computer Center Groundbreaking 1954

4. Georgia Tech Network Calculator Laboratory 1950

5. Rich Electronic Computer Center Groundbreaking 1954

Part 2

The Rich Computer Center building (1971) occupies a prominent location on campus, down the hill from Hinman and across 4th St from Architecture East. Yet it has remained “hidden in plain view” since the 1970s. Now that the computers it housed have been relocated, many actors on campus have their eyes on this piece of prime real estate. The design brief asks to propose strategies for expanding the College of Design facilities at this site.

College of Design Research Center will provide a space to enhance and display the frontier research conducted by five schools of College of Design. The proposal provides various sized volumes for laboratories within the existing cascade from Hinman Research Building to New Rich Computer Building, while the architectural form is organized to follow the slope topography. The combinatory labs may shift the pedagogical focal point to research-based curriculum, as well as providing students with the experience to learn from the functional operating building.

Academic Project

Georgia Institute of Technology

4th Year Studio

Instructor: Sabir Khan

Individual

Georgia Tech’s Hinman Research Building was originally designed in 1939 as a facility for helicopter development. In 2008, the College of Design asked Historic Preservation studio, NADAA to reconfiure as a graduate architecture studio space.

Membrane form is explored through this study model. The strings are temporary fixed to the nodes, allowing for pull effect of the strings in analyzing form and tensil composition.

1. Ventilation Opening

2. Rain Water Collectioon System 3. Ventilation Louvers 4. Perforation of Existing Brick Wall

Elevated Structure

Large Equipment Labs

Small Labs

“High Tech Sister“ proposal within architectural discourses, past and present

The proposal focuses on natural system, allowing environmetal perforance central. This strategic foci will pedagogically enhance research curriculum on environmental performance for SoA to explore. Studies on natural ventilation and thermal comfort is continued in the next two projects.

SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELING OF COVID-19

FALL 2021 - 2022

Window design impact on indoor natural ventilation: CFD modeling to reduce COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that current ventilation design standards for most buildings may be insufficient to reduce the airborne concentrations and reduce the overall viral dose to occupants. As such, we simulated the effect of window arrangements and window types to control the natural ventilation, to impact the distribution of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles inside the building.

After our research, it was deemed that spread of viral particles are affected by indoor airflow vector, caused by 1) ratio of inlet and outlet windows, 2) location of outlet relative to air circulation, 3) initial speed of inlet wind controlled by window type, and 4) initial direction of inlet wind relative to indoor air circulation.

Research

Georgia Institute of Technology

Vertically Integrated Project

Parter/Sponsor: GTRI

Perkins and Will

Team Leader, First Author https://www.spatiotemporalmodelingofcovid19naturalventilation.com/

CFD analyis were done with grasshopper script and butterfly plug-in. The simulation produced quantitative data, of 1) COVID-19 particle room exposure ratio, and 2) number of agents exposed in a set time frame. The full experiment results are summarized here.