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.
Compactness in a simple gridisovists.org
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Reflections and spatial fields in the Soane Museum
by Sam
The below diagrams are a taxonomic series in which we apply the methods described here and the spatial classifications described here to a plan analysis of Sir John Soane’s Museum. Interpretation of these results is ongoing and discursive annotations will be added in due course. The mappings above were produced using a methodology established in the context of a research project on Dynamic Three Dimensional Space Syntax Modelling directed by Sophia Psarra at UCL. The project was supported by the […]
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Gandhi? endorses Portugese coffee.
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Embodied and situated architectural criticism.
by Sam
Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Obligatory Mezquita
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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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Average Radial in a simple gridisovists.org
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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.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: GAD RC3, prosthetics, reality
#site
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Decaying light
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Scene seen mid cycle
by Sam
Taken near Lords Cricket Ground, North London, in May 2011
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Walking Places: Naughty but Nice
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Discovered in Broadstairs, Kent, in January 2012
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Old bouquets
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Budapest is cold #testicicles
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Great new book to read
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Davis: Assault on German Village
by Sam
Download pdf Davis, M. (1999), ‘Assault on German Village’, in Der Spiegel: Berlin, Ger.
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Olympic big boy
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Palladian Drift, Villa Rotonda
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MUD Architecture site visit #nextproject #potential
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Copper skies at Kent cricket grounds
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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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London 2012 Wayfinding: Drawings
by Sam
Design drawings and renders of proposed Beacon and Gantry structures produced in April and May 2012, during the London 2012 Wayfinding project. (See here for completed structures and project explanation). Completed with Surface Architects.
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Hmmm
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Morning light on the rhubarb
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Cider barn at The Newt, Somerset
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Optimistic crowd control #london2012
by Sam
Taken in Hyde Park, Central London, in August 2012
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Honfleur, wooden tower with buttressing details.
by Sam
Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Poppy
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Taken in Kensal Green, North London, in April 2011
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CEU OD&T
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Basilica #budapest
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Ebb and Flow
by Sam
An interactive water and light fitting. Pools of rippling light are formed on the ceiling by the lensing affects of suspended crystal bowls agitated by micro fans. Designed and produced with Jason Bruges Studio.
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Just for you, DanWith thanks to RoJo et al
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Foam on beach at Sandymouth #nofilter
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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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On the Beach at Lackan Bay
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Quite a snout on it
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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.
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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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Rome: Gardens and Ruins
by Sam
Pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
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Port tasting for two? Oh yes I will.
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Current location
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The Dog and the Sea
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Moody
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Video art innit
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Battle Great Wood
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Taken near Battle, Kent, in August 2011
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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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Marking desk
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Glanville: The Purpose of Second Order Cybernetics
by Sam
Download pdf Glanville, R. (2004), ‘The Purpose of Second Order Cybernetics’, Kybernetes, vol.33 no.9/10, Emerald:UK. pp.1379-86.
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Sunset from the eaves bedroom
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Sleepy
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Breakfast of champions #letthemeatcake
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