London 2012 Wayfinding Structures
by Sam
Completed with Surface Architects, who were appointed to work with LOCOG and ISG in the design and delivery of a family of high profile Wayfinding structures for the 2012 Olympic Park. The proposals combine historic vectors and iconic influences into a highly distinctive design that fits LOCOG’s original ‘look and feel’ brief. Each form incorporates LED backlighting, creating a field of glowing beacons across the Stratford Park. Six 7m high zone beacons, five 15m high major beacons and two 12m […]
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Soane
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East Thames Floating Housing
by Sam
Mapping of strategic opportunities on the tideways and basins of the East Thames, London. This work lead to identification of potential forms and typologies of housing to be floated on the river as a response to limited supply of key worker and family home supply in the surrounding areas.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: drawings, mapping
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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Soane Museum: Real and Percieved Space
by Sam
A conversion of the isovist-agent software into c++ has led to a number of performance improvements. As a result new complexities of isovist analysis can be calculated and recorded in realtime. This includes reflection and projection of spatial depth; ie mirror and glazing surfaces, as well as barriers and mobile elements. A plan of the Soane Museum in London is being used as a test analysis for the system. These images illustrate different ‘spectral’ recordings of the spatial depths perceived […]
Categories: Research • Tags: agents, art, coding, drawings, isovists, labyrinths, mapping, mazes, space syntax
Whitstable winter sun
by Sam
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St Michaels Mount
by Sam
Taken in Mounts Bay, Cornwall, in December 2011
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Early blues
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Surface Algorithm
by Sam
A series of digitally coded collages produced for Surface Architects for exhibition in Hull, North East England. Each image explores different memories and vectoral layerings of the city by layering specific letters and fonts in an additive boolean process. The ‘designer’ acts as editor, selecting or rejecting different combinative forms in a dialogue with the running coding algorithm to produce a collaborative outcome.
Suspended stair; early future systems
by Sam
Taken in Brighton, South England, 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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Drogo Jelly
by Sam
Taken at Castle Drogo, Devon, in March 2012
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Chesil and back
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Home taping is killing music
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Battle Great Wood
by Sam
Taken near Battle, Kent, in August 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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Dancing Chevrons
by Sam
A matrix of black and white chevrons which displays an inherent ability to iteratively resolve itself into a state of lower entropy. This process continues until a condition of equilibrium is established across the grid; from this point pattern iterations of the solution develop in perpetuity.
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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Control in a simple gridisovists.org
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Scene seen mid cycle
by Sam
Taken near Lords Cricket Ground, North London, in May 2011
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Marking desk
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Mexican wrestling bar? Yes please
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Race day at Chiswick beach
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Olympic Monolith
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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The Switching Labyrinth: Installation
by Sam
A large installation constructed in a warehouse near Euston, London, in 2009, ‘The Switching Labyrinth’ provided a framework for two weeks of real-time interactive experimentation and observation. 250 metres of black curtains constructed a wrapping of pathways around a central ‘room’, where sliding curtain ‘doors’ periodically shifted, ‘switching’ openings to offer alternative entrance and exits. As an occupant navigated and learnt about the installation, it too observed them, learing about how it was explored and unilaterally modulating its entangling paths […]
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Last shot of #Boulogne, which bizarrely had numerous #Welsh restaurants. Anyone know why?
by Sam
Taken in Boulogne, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Welly action
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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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Very little house
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Beachy Head, mist closing in, seven knots.
by Sam
Taken off the coast of South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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#uca field trip #worldtour
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Mers de Bains: Style collisions.
by Sam
Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Long way down
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Startings
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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
Palladian Drift, Villa Rotonda
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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)
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CupASoup after coming through a force seven gusting eight. Safe harbour in Fecamp where we are told monks make strong liqueurs.
by Sam
Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Sunset from the eaves bedroom
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Big piles of rock and snow
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Rooftop cactus garden above the Douro, Porto.
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Perpendicular gothic meets data integration
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Millfield Inflatables Day
by Sam
A day long adventure in the experimental making of inflatable structures with the pupils of Millfield Prep School, Somerset.
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Hadjivasilli: Light, Perception and Environment
by Sam
Download pdf Hadjivasilli, M. (2012) Light, Perception and Environment, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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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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Alcazar gardens
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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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Snapdragons #garden
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Bleak Horizons
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Gage: Edge Monkeys
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2005), Edge Monkeys, in Technoetic Arts, Intellect Ltd:Bristol, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics