Drone Ecologies - Zità di Sasc
Master Thesis by Matthias Vinatzer
Synthetic Landscape Lab June 2019
Supervision by
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Pasquero, Dipl. Eng., MA AA
Maria Kuptsova, MArch
Drone Ecologies explores the use of VTOLUAVs (Vertical Take Off and Landing – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) as an adaptable platform for interchangeable payloads, imaging & non-imaging, used to read, decode, and temporarily (Winter) transform a specific environment.
"Zità di Sasc", in English "Rocks City", is an area in the heart of the Dolomites, at the south-eastern side of mountain "Saslonch".
Drone ecology investigates parametric and generative methodologies of computational design to create dynamic transformation processes of a landscape.
The design catalogue illustrates the dynamic creation of "Flowlines" through agents behaving like water drops flowing down a surface attracted by gravitational force. Initially a set of 32 agents is employed to observe the flow behaviour. Consequently, the study is repeated multiplying the set of agents four and sixteen times.
Further studies are made to observe the transformation of the complete area over time using different parameters for the generation of flowlines.