Festive self portrait
by Sam
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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 […]
Categories: Travel Records, Visual Vitamins • Tags: arcangel, nature
We did that
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in August 2012
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Gandhi? endorses Portugese coffee.
by Sam
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Digital Agents: Rotational Archaeologies
by Sam
Prototype testing of the responsiveness of high resolution, autonomously visual spatial agents within an active digital environment. This approach uses a geometric basis for the resolution and intersectional calculations of each agent’s ‘isovist’ or visual field, leading to successful pathseeking behaviours.
Crisp
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Gage: The Boat/Helmsman
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2007), The Boat/Helmsman, in Technoetic Arts, Intellect Ltd:Bristol, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
Foam on beach at Sandymouth #nofilter
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Army bivvy with cunning camo kit #london2012
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Big piles of rock and snow
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Mean Metric Depth in a simple gridisovists.org
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Must be in France.
by Sam
Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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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Inflate-able space
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Variance in a simple gridisovists.org
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Canal side drama
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Weak form roof and window
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Solhem Barn
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Wooden barn under reconstruction, recorded in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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If Eisenmann/Liebeskind did road markings.
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in September 2012
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Morning light on the rhubarb
by Sam
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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’.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: drawings, installations, libraries, pop-up, temporary
Precious little to report from Dieppe, so here is an onboard cheese board. Now in St Valerie en Caux, mtf.
by Sam
Taken in Dieppe, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Zhou: Embodiment and Hybrid Architecture
by Sam
Download pdf Zhou, X. (2012) Embodiment and Hybrid Architecture, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: embodiment, GAD RC3
Urban patina
by Sam
Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Mers de Bains: Side street
by Sam
Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Blank slates and new beginnings
by Sam
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Welly action
by Sam
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Update X-Ray
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Carmelite Cemetery, Porto
by Sam
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Current location
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Bit of gormer innit
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(Kite) surf’s up
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Garden yellow no.1
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Lisbon coffee shop
by Sam
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Porcelain: Pockets of Life
Hanging installation based on a series of porcelain hemispheres.
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Metallic grey
by Sam
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BT future tech: pavement pop-up switcher
by Sam
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Von Foerster: Cybernetics of Cybernetics
by Sam
Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (1979) Cybernetics of Cybernetics, Lecture, University of Illinois:Alabama, US
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Axial, Proximal and Distal movement
by Sam
Geometric properties of an isovist provide a measure of the perceived spatiality from a defined ‘point of view’. As such they provide the basis for explorative movement, based on realtime numeric derivation of directional goals. Below we demonstrate three different movement strategies established in this manner. (above) Movement towards the perceived axial centroid of an unexplored space (axial movement). (above) Movement towards the nearest point on a perceived occluded edge of an unexplored space (proximal movement). (above) Movement towards the […]
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Inch Clare
by Sam
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#Hull Trains
by Sam
Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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Post Op X-ray No.2
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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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#uca field trip #worldtour
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Villa, dissolved
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Honfleur, Les Sardines
by Sam
Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Obligatory Mezquita
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Greened brickwork in suburbia
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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 […]
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