The
Entropy of Energy
Tetrapod
Hydraulic Studies
Project Notes
Project Type:
Design Research
Date:
March 2019
Project Tags:
2018, Research, Design, Simulation
Coastline are naturally in a state of
geomorphological flux through water, wind and sediment movements. Coastal defences
artificially stabilise this condition, reinforcing a manufactured and
unnatural, binary between land and ocean. Through their engineered and
irregular interlocking concrete form, tetrapod’s act as mediating agents
absorbing and dissipating these energies. Resulting in the erosion of the
tetrapod and temporary stabilisation or reduction of erosion to the territories
behind them.
This computational fluid dynamic simulation visually explores the entropy of wave energy on such a coastal structure, tracing water movement over the sold forms and mapping the mechanically transferred energy through hydraulic action and pressure on the tetrapod’s surface.
Exhibited:
Monsoon [+ Other] Grounds Symposium & Exhibition
March 2019
monsoon-other-grounds-symposium
This computational fluid dynamic simulation visually explores the entropy of wave energy on such a coastal structure, tracing water movement over the sold forms and mapping the mechanically transferred energy through hydraulic action and pressure on the tetrapod’s surface.
Exhibited:
Monsoon [+ Other] Grounds Symposium & Exhibition
March 2019
monsoon-other-grounds-symposium
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