Wind Tunnel Bulletin #02: The Scale Effect [electronic resource].

ZHdK 2014

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How does scale present itself? What are scale effects? Do you only find them in a wind tunnel or do they also show up in art and literature? If the model of an aircraft is tested in a wind tunnel, a successful test does not guarantee that the full-scale aircraft will be able to fly – the aerodynamic properties of the prototype cannot simply be transferred to its full-size analogue. In issue 2 of the Wind Tunnel Bulletin, we deal with the relationship between big and small, which sometimes function cooperatively and other times in (productive) competition. It is a truism that bigger and taller are not necessarily better. A prominent example in architecture and a model for Failed Scale is the Gothic cathedral of Beauvais, which was planned to attain a superlative height, but collapsed twice and has since eked out an existence alongside its pre-Romanesque predecessor church (pp. 22-23). In four essays we deal with scale effects from different perspectives: The Dimensions of Scale Effects, Aircraft Engineers in the Dollhouse, Big and Small, and Scale in 3D. We look at what happens when texts themselves are scaled. Do they gain in meaning or do they lose in effect? Some things remain unsaid, others appear in a concentrated form. Our four essays were written according to the following guidelines: three-word title, four-word subtitle, 3200 characters of text (including spaces, excluding title), three paragraphs, four footnotes, no image (pp. 24-31). In the Update, you can see our wind tunnel both in its definitive form and in comparison with its model shortly before its move to Toni-Areal (pp. 32-33). Questions of scale have preoccupied writers for centuries. A selection of Quotations is collected here as well (pp. 34-43). Finally, in an Interview, we discuss the importance of scale for our research project and beyond (p. 44). German.
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Mirjam Steiner
Sarine Waltenspül
Reinhard Wendler
Haseeb Ahmed
Florian Dombois
Kaspar König
Viola Zimmermann
Andreas Moesch