Looking up
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Connectivity in a simple gridisovists.org
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Torro torro
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Warhol Car Shoreditch
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Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Alcazar gardens
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ArcAngel Dolphins
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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 […]
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Here again
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Cider barn at The Newt, Somerset
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Walking Places: Harrods
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[click & drag to pan] Recorded in Central London, in January 2012
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Walking Places: Naughty but Nice
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[click & drag to pan] Discovered in Broadstairs, Kent, in January 2012
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Rengran: Reification: Imitation, Symbol and Substitution
by Sam
Download pdf Rengran, Z. (2012) Reification:Imitation, Symbol and Substitution, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Turing: Computing Machinery and Intelligence
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Download pdf Turing, A. (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Mind 49:London, UK pp.433-460.
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Morning light on the rhubarb
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The Scalpel builds itself
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Soane Museum: Real and Percieved Space
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A conversion of the isovist-agent software into c++ has led to a number of performance improvements. As a result new complexities of isovist analysis can be calculated and recorded in realtime. This includes reflection and projection of spatial depth; ie mirror and glazing surfaces, as well as barriers and mobile elements. A plan of the Soane Museum in London is being used as a test analysis for the system. These images illustrate different ‘spectral’ recordings of the spatial depths perceived […]
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Early blues
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Summer
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Taken on Hampstead Heath, North London, in May 2011
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Mers de Bains: Side street
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Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Valletta: Installation
Full scale ‘loom’ installation of drawn, written and modelled proposals for a lace making facility in the city of Valletta, Malta.
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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 […]
Instagram Image
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Instagram Image
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This bar wins
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Honfleur, Les Sardines
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Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Costa Rica: Turtles
Turtle conservation project, Costa Rica from Lizzie’s volunteer trip, 2005
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Festive self portrait
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Welly action
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Instagram Image
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Jamóns!
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Mers de Bains: Norman mock Tudor requires proper witches’ hat roof work.
by Sam
Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Weak form roof and window
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Graff'd dist board, Casa De Musica, Porto
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Optimistic crowd control #london2012
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Taken in Hyde Park, Central London, in August 2012
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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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Timber, light, feet
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Hadjivasilli: Light, Perception and Environment
by Sam
Download pdf Hadjivasilli, M. (2012) Light, Perception and Environment, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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White Cliffs and blue skies over Dover.
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Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Boys, on Tor
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Dartmoor Tors
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[click & drag to pan] Cox Tor above, Beardown Tor below. Recorded on Dartmoor, South West England, in March 2012.
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Gage: The Boat/Helmsman
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Download pdf Gage, S. (2007), The Boat/Helmsman, in Technoetic Arts, Intellect Ltd:Bristol, UK.
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Mers de Bains: Block corner.
by Sam
Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Chesil and back
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Poissonnerie.
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Taken in Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Instagram Image
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Burrow Hill Cider Mill
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Traditional cider mill and cider brandy distillery in Somerset, West England. Visited in April 2008
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Off Achill Island
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The Stags, off Buddagh
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UCA third year architecture at Whitstable
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Big piles of rock and snow
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Folded array
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Endike Primary School, Hull
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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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Birkbeck Process
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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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JellyBeats Installation
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Micro-Installation produced for Bompass and Parr in 2010 as part of their exhibition and venue ‘The Complete History of Food’. A ‘bioresponsive jelly’ was made to pulse in time with the observer’s heat-beat, providing an instant and amusing interaction as they ate it. It is suprising what people will willingly push their fingers into.
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