Lisbon coffee shop
by Sam
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Dolphin, chain and sun
by Sam
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Instagram Image
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Foam on beach at Sandymouth #nofilter
by Sam
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The Switching Labyrinth: Fabrication
by Sam
Much of the work for an installation focusses on how to construct it; metaphorically but also literally. This habitually hidden process deserves documentation as much as anything else; Architecture is, after all, often about delivery. This gallery shows some of the design drawings, prototyping and mass construction processes of the framework and intelligent acutation mechanisms for ‘The Switching Labyrinth’ installation. (See here for the completed project)
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Axial Line Definitions
by Sam
Here we demonstrate an isovist based approach to definition of the axial lines of a space. The algorithm identifies the primary and secondary longest axial lines of each isovist in real-time. These are used to define a pair of median 2d centric points: Movement towards either of the median points causes following of the general axiality of the space as perceived at that location. Further sets of exploratory movements based on this approach are demonstrated here.
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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
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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MUD Architecture site visit #nextproject #potential
by Sam
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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.
Sleepy
by Sam
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Endike Primary School, Hull
by Sam
RIBA Stage E design completed with Surface Architects as part of the Hull BSF Programme. Includes provision for a shared local library and full scale performance spaces.
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Interesting NHS orthopaedic light fitting.
by Sam
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Tin Man at the entrance to Sligo Harbour. Dandy.
by Sam
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Making plans
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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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Stellata
by Sam
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Walking Places: Harrods
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Recorded in Central London, in January 2012
Categories: Research • Tags: food, photosynths, walking
Connectivity in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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On leave
by Sam
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Metallic grey
by Sam
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Lisboa
by Sam
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Cornish tree
by Sam
Taken somewhere in Cornwall in December 2011
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Soane
by Sam
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Warhol Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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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
Old bouquets
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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First of a couple on the exuberant seaside terrace of Mers de Bains.
by Sam
Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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.
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Instagram Image
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Sanlucar sunset
by Sam
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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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Long way up
by Sam
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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.
Categories: Research • Tags: drawings, labyrinths
Wind turbine and rainbow #nofilter
by Sam
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White Cliffs and blue skies over Dover.
by Sam
Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Greened brickwork in suburbia
by Sam
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Garden yellow no.3
by Sam
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Vaughan: Mapping the East End Labyrinth
by Sam
Download pdf Vaughan, L. (2008), ‘Mapping the East End ‘Labyrinth’’, in Werner, A. (ed.) Jack the Ripper and the East End Labyrinth, The Museum of London and Random House:London, UK pp.218-237
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Elbow X-ray
by Sam
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Bleak Horizons
by Sam
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Here again
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Ooops
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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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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Holy distillery
by Sam
Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Great new book to read
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Red Triangles
by Sam
Taken in Oxford, in February 2012
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Jamóns!
by Sam
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Bike
by Sam
Taken on Hampstead Heath, North London, in January 2012
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