Great new book to read
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Canterbury Bells #garden
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Pask: A Comment, A Case History and A Plan
by Sam
Download pdf Pask, G. (1968) ‘A Comment, a Case History and a Plan’ in Reichardt. J (ed.) Cybernetic Serendipity, ICA:London, UK
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Abandoned at Quintins Boat Club
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Poser
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Bleak Horizons
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Ashby: An Introduction to Cybernetics
by Sam
Download pdf Ashby, W.R. (1957) An Introduction to Cybernetics. Chapman and Hall: London, UK.
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Race day at Chiswick beach
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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McElhinney: Labyrinths, Mazes and the Spaces Inbetween
by Sam
Download pdf McElhinney, S. (2009) Labyrinths, Mazes and the Spaces Inbetween, Masters Thesis, University College London:London, UK.
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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.
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Holy fellow in a hat
by Sam
Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Controllability in a simple gridisovists.org
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Khan/Beesley: Responsive Architecture/Performing Instruments
by Sam
Download pdf Khan, O. and Beesley, P. (2009), ‘Responsive Architecture/Performing Instruments’, in Khan, O. Scholz, T. and Shepard, M. (eds.) Situated Technologies Pamphlets 4. The Architectural League of New York: New York, US.
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Realtime & Reflective Isovist Agents
by Sam
Typical spectral graph results from the methods shown in the below films can be viewed here. A complete re-write of the realtime isovist agents code into c++ has facilitated more complex isovist modelling and realtime analysis extracts. An updated version of the previously demonstrated movement within and perception of real plan space in realtime is shown above; below follow illustrations of new capabilities. As a secondary level, transparent barriers to movement can now be modelled and isovists related to vision […]
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Folded array
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Mexican wrestling bar? Yes please
by Sam
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Snapdragons #garden
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The Stags, off Buddagh
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A bit of swell off Eagle Island
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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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Timber, light, feet
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One last visual step depth screenshot #splat
by Sam
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White Cliffs and blue skies over Dover.
by Sam
Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Prougestaporn: Interactive Mobile Theatre
by Sam
Download pdf Prougestaporn, N. (2012) Interactive Mobile Theatre, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Stellata
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Cornish tree
by Sam
Taken somewhere in Cornwall in December 2011
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Von Foerster: Understanding Understanding
by Sam
Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (2003) Understanding Understanding, Springer:New York, US
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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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Post Op X-ray No.2
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Vaughan: Mapping the East End Labyrinth
by Sam
Download pdf Vaughan, L. (2008), ‘Mapping the East End ‘Labyrinth’’, in Werner, A. (ed.) Jack the Ripper and the East End Labyrinth, The Museum of London and Random House:London, UK pp.218-237
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Honfleur, Emiette de Maquereau
by Sam
Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Reservoir Dogs in E20
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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ArcAngel Dolphins
by Sam
These were recorded on a week’s sail from Falmouth in Cornwall to Milford Haven, Wales, via the Isles of Scilly, Padstow and Lundy. We were sailing northward about 5 miles off Lundy Island, spinnaker up under a southerly wind and making about 10 knots. A pod of about twenty dolphins came from all around and lined up to play on our bow wave for fifteen minutes or so. Five grown men were reduced to excited little boys. The minute we […]
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Palladian Drift, Villa Rotonda
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Letesson: Towards an Archaeology of Perception: ‘Looking’ at the Minoan Palaces
by Sam
Download pdf Letesson, Q. and Vansteenhuyse, K. (2006) Towards an Archaeology of the Perception: ‘Looking’ at the Minoan Palaces, in Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Equinox:Sheffield, UK. pp.91-119.
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Isovist based Spatial Classifications
by Sam
The work previously described here can now be applied to isolate 360 degree isovists in contiguous space. Doing so provides four distinct spatial classes of isovist. Below we use the Soane Museum to outline these types. ‘Accessible’ space: when all walls used to define isovists are considered as solid and impermeable to vision, the isovists describe only that space which is directly accessible and can be walked into. This allows us to examine complex networks of circulation in an architectural […]
Glanville: Researching Design and Designing Research
by Sam
Download pdf Glanville, R. (1999), Researching Design and Designing Research, MIT Press:Cambridge, MA. pp.771-8
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Art Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Party under the palms
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MUD Architecture site visit #nextproject #potential
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Stochastic Isovist Fields
by Sam
When isovist analysis is applied to a plan in its totality (rather than to individual locations of special interest), one issue to be resolved by appropriate convention is the identification of “all points” from which isovists will be drawn. The nature of space is such that the actual number of possible points is infinite. In conventional approaches (such as UCL’s ‘Depthmap’ programme), an square tessellation of samples is adopted. Such a method establishes ‘all points’ as having a uniform and […]
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Hmmm
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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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Axial Line Definitions
by Sam
Here we demonstrate an isovist based approach to definition of the axial lines of a space. The algorithm identifies the primary and secondary longest axial lines of each isovist in real-time. These are used to define a pair of median 2d centric points: Movement towards either of the median points causes following of the general axiality of the space as perceived at that location. Further sets of exploratory movements based on this approach are demonstrated here.
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Pop Up Library
by Sam
Concept design for a ‘pop-up’ local library box to be installed in disused retail units. Rather than simply focussing on the materiel of books, the solution targets programmatic affordance, with projective and interactive surfaces, acoustic treatments that double as re-configurable seating seating and high density book storage and ‘vending’.
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Bloomsbury Cider Press: Detail drawings
by Sam
Hypothetical design for an apple tree nursery and cider mill in Bloomsbury, London. Completed in collaboration with Tetsuro Nagata
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Lisbon coffee shop
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