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UCA third year architecture at Whitstable
by Sam
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Palladio
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Garden yellow no.2
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Rome: Churches
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Pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [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
US out of Grenada
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Upholstery
Ongoing work restoring period furniture
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Holy distillery
by Sam
Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Digital Agents: Cretan Palace Mappings
by Sam
Latest test outputs from an ongoing piece of research. The spectral chart produced shows the accumulative isovist mapping of autonomous spatial agents progressing in real-time through the archaeological plan of the ancient Cretan palace of Malia. Other record formats are also demonstrated. Each agents is capable of recognising the characteristics of its neighbours (displayed as modulated colours of isovist) and reacting to them. Social behaviours of seeking, following and fleeing contact are apparent as the agents collectively explore the palace […]
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Bleak Horizons
by Sam
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Living toy cow. #nofilter
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Variance in a simple gridisovists.org
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Compactness in a simple gridisovists.org
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Solhem Wedding Reception
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Jake and Charlotta’s reception was held in an old milking barn. The bar was in the central wooden feed-trough Recorded in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011.
Categories: Travel Records, Visual Vitamins • Tags: photosynths, weddings
Valletta: Mapping the City
Series of mappings of key sites, contextual influences and opportunities within the ancient port-city of Valletta, Malta.
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Spatial fields in Hypothetical Layouts
by Sam
The below diagrams are a taxonomic series in which we apply the methods described here to a series of hypothetical geometric layouts. 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 UCL Space Group EPSRC platform grant EP/G02619X/1 (P7726).
Categories: Research • Tags: coding, fields, isovists, mapping, space syntax
Porcelain: Pockets of Life
Hanging installation based on a series of porcelain hemispheres.
Categories: Ceramics • Tags: installations, porcelain
Doorbell detail, Córdoba
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Olympic Flowers
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Meet Nando the chicken
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Solhem Barn Interior
by Sam
Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 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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Valletta: Sectional Drawings
Sectional and material proposals for a new lace weaving facility within the ancient city fortifications of Valletta, Malta.
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🤷🏻♂️
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Fields of marsh samphire
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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.
Lisboan, casual sunbathing
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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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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.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
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Controllability in a simple gridisovists.org
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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.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: history
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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Boat
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HMV
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Starting our ten day marine trip from #Brighton Marina, actually an early Jan Kaplicky
by Sam
Taken in Brighton, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Field trip planning underway….
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Puzzling
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Skewness in a simple gridisovists.org
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Sleepy
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Suspended stair; early future systems
by Sam
Taken in Brighton, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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The Epigenetic Object
by Sam
The Epigenetic Object was a mobile that performed and whistled noisily to attract attention, inflating in gratification when petted. Coded behaviours combined with the latent epigenetic qualities of the mobile’s body to produce a continually novel and playful sequence of form and dialogue with the observer. The ambiguities of this encounter were deliberately emphasised with the use of an androgynous yet strangely appealing doll’s head at the centre of the piece.
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Villa, dissolved
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Vista in a simple gridisovists.org
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Rush hour on the Thames
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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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Tin Man at the entrance to Sligo Harbour. Dandy.
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