Travel Sketches
Lizzie’s assorted travel sketches
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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
Stoneware: Throwing
Workshop output from July 2012; a first attempt at throwing stoneware.
Categories: Ceramics • Tags: stoneware, work in progress
Off Achill Island
by Sam
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Van Eyck
by Sam
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by Sam
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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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Harbour entrance #Dover
by Sam
Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Morning light on the rhubarb
by Sam
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Living toy cow. #nofilter
by Sam
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Budapest is cold #testicicles
by Sam
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Connectivity in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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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
Davis: Assault on German Village
by Sam
Download pdf Davis, M. (1999), ‘Assault on German Village’, in Der Spiegel: Berlin, Ger.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: history
Interesting NHS orthopaedic light fitting.
by Sam
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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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The art advent @tate tanks is nearly completed
by Sam
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Jasmine Cottage – Extension
Private residential project near Oxford. Brief required the sensitive extension of a Grade 2 listed cottage to provide a new loft room space, access stair and addition of two new dormer windows.
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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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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.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: labyrinths, mazes
Perimeter in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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Holy distillery
by Sam
Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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This is where my parents are today #jealous
by Sam
Taken in a fjord in Norway in July 2012
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Von Foerster: On Constructing a Reality
by Sam
Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (1973) On Constructing a Reality, Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute:Virginia, US
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
Bondin: Embodied Dynamics
by Sam
Download pdf Bondin, W. (2013) Embodied Dynamics, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: biomimetics, embodiment, GAD RC3
Honfleur, Emiette de Maquereau
by Sam
Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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 […]
Categories: Research • Tags: photosynths, walking
Corus Triathlon Infrastructure
by Sam
Animation of design proposals for a finish arch for UK Triathlon’s elite series hosting in Hyde Park, London. A series of folded steel barriers form the transition zones where athletes switch from swim to bike to running; before rising up to a triumphal finish and timing archway. Notions of the body as a wrapped form informed the folding geometries of the steel plates, which were provided to reflect Corus’ sponsorship of the event. Completed with Surface Architects.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: temporary, triathlon
Long way down
by Sam
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Burrow Hill Cider Mill
by Sam
Traditional cider mill and cider brandy distillery in Somerset, West England. Visited in April 2008
Categories: Travel Records • Tags: cider
UEL Reception
by Sam
Taken in Docklands, 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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MUD Architecture site visit #nextproject #potential
by Sam
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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Psarra & McElhinney: Just Around The Corner From Where You Are
by Sam
Download pdf Psarra, S and McElhinney, S. (2014) Just Around the Corner from Where You Are: Probabilistic isovist fields, inference and embodied projection, in Koch, D and Miranda Carranza, P (eds), The Journal of Space Syntax, V.5 Issue 1, UCL, London. pp.109-132 The work described in this paper was supported by the UCL Space Group EPSRC platform grant EP/G02619X/1 (P7726), in the context of a research project on Dynamic Three Dimensional Space Syntax Modelling, directed by Sophia Psarra at UCL.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: isovists, mapping
Chesil and back
by Sam
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Choppy seas, Margate pier
by Sam
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Hyperbolic Geometries
by Sam
If a labyrinth is a continual spatial line, tightly wound onto, but never intersecting itself, what does it become if it is lifted into a different geometry and dimension? What novel things might this tell us about the spaces we construct and how we gain delight through their occupation? This experimental prototyping explores hyperbolic geometry; where instead of being limited to one degree of parallel line, infinite variation can be achieved. This project is ongoing.
Categories: Research • Tags: hyperbolics, work in progress
Hmmm
by Sam
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by Sam
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McElhinney: European Meeting of Cybernetics and Systems Research 2010
by Sam
Download pdf McElhinney, S. (2010) Labyrinths, Mazes and the Spaces Inbetween, in Robert Trappl (ed), Cybernetics and Systems, V.20, Austrian Society for Cybernetics Studies:Vienna, Austria. pp.104-109
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics, labyrinths, mazes
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.
Instagram Image
by Sam
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by Sam
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Timber, light, feet
by Sam
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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Baby samphire
by Sam
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Folded array
by Sam
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Triangulated corner detail
by Sam
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Valletta: Models
Iterative ‘loom’ models proposing points and forms of intervention within the Valletta context. Based on an in-depth examination of the locally contextual and historically significant practice and processes of silk lace weaving, these models proposed a series of interventions within the ancient city fortifications.
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If Eisenmann/Liebeskind did road markings.
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in September 2012
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Rome: Churches
by Sam
Pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
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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
Categories: Architecture • Tags: cider, drawings