Sismotinto was the project developed for the Design Lab course of the major: DILAB.
At the start of the semester the teacher Matthew Lydiatt set my team with a challenge: The wine tanks at the chilean wineries were devastated with the earthquake, and millions of dolars in product were lost, we needed to solve that problem.
The team was composed by 3 members: Pablo Abara, Valentina Martínez and me. It was great working with them, we got along perfectly, and worked together even better. Pablo was in charge of the “sell” of the product, meaning that all the talk and convincing that was done wan mainly him. Valentina took the role as the aesthetics manager, all the presentations, and looks of the product were revised by her. I decided to take care of the product, so the construction decisions, materials and mathematical modeling in order to decide dimensions was were i focused most of my energy. Of course this wouldn’t have worked without communication, so every team member had an opinion on everything, specially on the decision-making part, that was absolutely shared.
That’s how SAM was born. SAM stands for “Sistema Aislador de Movimiento” (Movement Isolation System) and was a wine tank “foot” that had rubber bands and coils in order to produce the seismic isolation we decided was best to protect the product.
SAM’s technology was based on the work of professor Jose Luis Almazán, a Structural Department Professor that was doing research on the topic, he was also de one who requested the investigation to the course.
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