Whitstable winter sun
by Sam
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Hillier: Space is the Machine
by Sam
Download pdf Hillier, B (2007) Space is the machine: a configurational theory of architecture. Space Syntax: London, UK.
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JellyBeats Installation
by Sam
Micro-Installation produced for Bompass and Parr in 2010 as part of their exhibition and venue ‘The Complete History of Food’. A ‘bioresponsive jelly’ was made to pulse in time with the observer’s heat-beat, providing an instant and amusing interaction as they ate it. It is suprising what people will willingly push their fingers into.
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Decaying light
by Sam
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Art Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Gage: The Wonder of Trivial Machines
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2006), The Wonder of Trivial Machines, Systems Research and Behavioural Science, vol.23, Wiley:London, UK. pp.771-8
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
Dartmoor Tors
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Cox Tor above, Beardown Tor below. Recorded on Dartmoor, South West England, in March 2012.
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Gage: Constructing the User
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2007), ‘Constructing the User’, in Systems Research and Behavioural Science, v.24, Wiley:London, UK. pp.313-22.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: observer, performance
US out of Grenada
by Sam
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Snapdragons #garden
by Sam
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Hmmm
by Sam
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This bar wins
by Sam
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Soane
by Sam
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Sea of Galilee and a hot tub #win
by Sam
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Rochester Suburban Tropicana
by Sam
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Lisbon coffee shop
by Sam
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Digital Agents: Agent-Maze Ecologies
by Sam
Study of multiple generations of autonomous spatial agents progressing through a real-time reconfiguring maze-matrix. ‘Doors’ in this opened or closed depending on maze-inherent desires over occupation levels. Those that tended towards closure are illustrated as ‘walls’. Dependent on the desire sets exhibited by the maze, different ‘wall’ structures were observed. These can be related back to archetypal plan forms, suggesting an emergent occupational basis for common architectural devices.
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Digital Agents: Agent-Maze Dialogues
by Sam
Study of an autonomous spatial agent progressing through a real-time reconfiguring maze-matrix. Agent behaviours changed in response to modulation of individual spatial ‘desires’ and the ‘discovered’ or observed changing environment. Dependent on variation and combination of desire sets, different movement typologies can be categorised; these have a direct relation back to ancient labyrinth form elements. An emergent, emotive root for the occupation and understanding of spatialities is implied.
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Les Maquereau.
by Sam
Taken in Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Gage: Edge Monkeys
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2005), Edge Monkeys, in Technoetic Arts, Intellect Ltd:Bristol, UK.
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Koch: Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning
by Sam
Download pdf Koch, D. (2004), ‘Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning’, Licentiate Thesis, KTH, Stockholm:SWE.
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Valletta: Installation
Full scale ‘loom’ installation of drawn, written and modelled proposals for a lace making facility in the city of Valletta, Malta.
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Great new book to read
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Stop Thatcher
by Sam
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Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
by Sam
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Bike
by Sam
Taken on Hampstead Heath, North London, in January 2012
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Birkbeck Process
by Sam
Film and animation of Surface Architects‘ design process for the complex geometric ‘residue’ of the Birkbeck Centre for Film and Visual Media, London. (See here for images and explanation of the completed project)
Categories: Architecture • Tags: process
Heathrow window detail
by Sam
Taken in Heathrow, West London, in July 2012
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Rengran: Reification: Imitation, Symbol and Substitution
by Sam
Download pdf Rengran, Z. (2012) Reification:Imitation, Symbol and Substitution, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: GAD RC3, imitation, substitution, symbol
Chap I met in #Hull today
by Sam
Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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Henri IV’s house in St Valerie
by Sam
Taken in St Valerie, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Summer
by Sam
Taken on Hampstead Heath, North London, in May 2011
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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Metallic grey
by Sam
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Peekaboo with the Pringle
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Solhem Barn Interior
by Sam
Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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Costa Rica: Life
Life shots from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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Walking Places: Wistman’s Wood
by Sam
Wistman’s Wood is a scrap of surviving ancient woodland that you can find near Two Bridges, Dartmoor. It is hidden 30 minutes walk up a steep sided valley. The trees are oaks, twisted and miniaturised by the rocky clitter upon which they have slowly grown. The tallest is seven metres high. [click & drag to pan] Similar woodland used to cover most of the moor and the UK, but beginning in the Neolithic Period, man’s activities have cleared the entire […]
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Van Eyck
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Labyrinth Drawings
by Sam
Drawings which iteratively explore common simple labyrinth forms; overlaying each to illustrate how one type might be switched or folded into another. This process subjects the delicate ‘coherence’ of the recognisable labyrinth symbols to fragmentation, generating potentially ‘switching’ or momentarily incoherent maze conditions.
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Baby samphire
by Sam
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First of the season
by Sam
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Qingling: Mediated Reality In Bearable Prosthesis
by Sam
Download pdf Qingling, T. (2013) Mediated Reality In Bearable Prosthesis, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Poser
by Sam
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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CEU OD&T
by Sam
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Valletta: Sectional Drawings
Sectional and material proposals for a new lace weaving facility within the ancient city fortifications of Valletta, Malta.
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Grid Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Solhem Wedding Reception
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Jake and Charlotta’s reception was held in an old milking barn. The bar was in the central wooden feed-trough Recorded in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011.
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Porcelain: Pockets of Life
Hanging installation based on a series of porcelain hemispheres.
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Libraries Platform
by Sam
Record and output from engagement sessions held with Hull Libraries service Librarians and staff in April and May 2012. The film takes the output of workshop discussions and brings them into an emergent briefing focus for future library interventions. Completed with Surface Architects.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: animation, coding, libraries
Letesson: From ‘Party’ to ‘Ritual’ to ‘Ruin’ in Minoan Crete: the Spatial Context of Feasting
by Sam
Download pdf Letesson, Q. and Driessen, J. (2008) From ‘Party’ to ‘Ritual’ to ‘Ruin’: The Spatial Context of Feasting, in Hitchcock, L. Laffineur, R. and Crowley, J. CROWLEY (eds), DAIS, The Aegean Feast (AEGAEUM 29), University of Liège:Liège-Austin,BEL. pp. 207-215
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Cornish tree
by Sam
Taken somewhere in Cornwall in December 2011
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Meet Nando the chicken
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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The Generative Folly
by Sam
The Generative Folly was a week long building workshop with students from the Canterbury School of Architecture’s Third year Interior Architecture and Design BA and the MA Architecture courses. It was run in collaboration with Hanif Kara from Structural Engineers AKT II to come up with design solutions for the deployment of a repetitive timber module. 130 elements were prefabricated in the Canterbury workshop and over a week students developed competitive proposals, carried out structural tests and finally collaboratively assembled […]
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Fields of marsh samphire
by Sam
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