Project Duration:
December 2014 – April 2015
In 2015, I worked for five months in Singapore at the Future Cities Laboratory of ETH Zurich in Singapore. There, I worked on the project WeatherTimelapse. The researcher of the research initiative Cooler Calmer Singapore required a 360° time-lapse photography system to better understand the surrounding weather. Additionally, the time-lapse video was overlaid with the current weather data.
Cooler Calmer Singapore
The research initiative Cooler Calmer Singapore investigated ways to cool down the city. By implementing structural changes on building facades, wind flow through the street canyons can be channeled and optimized. Using wind flow simulation in combination with sensory recordings on the facades, the researchers tried to understand what structural changes are necessary. To better interpret these results, an understanding of the local weather conditions at that time was necessary. I therefore developed the WeatherTimelapse.
System
The time-lapse could be recorded by three weatherproofed mirrorless cameras installed on a building’s roof, together with a weather station. Additionally, I developed a software pipeline to generate the time-lapse videos overlaid with weather data charts.
More information about the project can be found in our paper “Cooler Calmer Singapore – Towards comfortable tropical urban environments“.
