Millfield Inflatables Day
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A day long adventure in the experimental making of inflatable structures with the pupils of Millfield Prep School, Somerset.
Categories: Architecture, Research • Tags: completed, inflatables, installations
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A day long adventure in the experimental making of inflatable structures with the pupils of Millfield Prep School, Somerset.
Categories: Architecture, Research • Tags: completed, inflatables, installations
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Taken in Kensal Green, North London, in April 2011
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Taken in Mounts Bay, Cornwall, in December 2011
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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
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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A large installation constructed in a warehouse near Euston, London, in 2009, ‘The Switching Labyrinth’ provided a framework for two weeks of real-time interactive experimentation and observation. 250 metres of black curtains constructed a wrapping of pathways around a central ‘room’, where sliding curtain ‘doors’ periodically shifted, ‘switching’ openings to offer alternative entrance and exits. As an occupant navigated and learnt about the installation, it too observed them, learing about how it was explored and unilaterally modulating its entangling paths […]
Categories: Architecture • Tags: installations, labyrinths, temporary
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Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Download pdf Alexander, J. Crompton, T. and Shrubsole, G. (2011) Think of Me as Evil? Opening the Ethical Debates in Advertising. Public Interest Research Centre & WWF-UK: London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: advertising
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Download pdf Glanville, R. (1999), Researching Design and Designing Research, MIT Press:Cambridge, MA. pp.771-8
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
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Download pdf Turing, A. (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Mind 49:London, UK pp.433-460.
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Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Completed with Surface Architects, who were appointed to work with LOCOG and ISG in the design and delivery of a family of high profile Wayfinding structures for the 2012 Olympic Park. The proposals combine historic vectors and iconic influences into a highly distinctive design that fits LOCOG’s original ‘look and feel’ brief. Each form incorporates LED backlighting, creating a field of glowing beacons across the Stratford Park. Six 7m high zone beacons, five 15m high major beacons and two 12m […]
Categories: Architecture • Tags: completed, london 2012, temporary
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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
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Taken near Battle, Kent, in August 2011
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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
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[click & drag to pan] Recorded in Central London, in January 2012
Categories: Research • Tags: food, photosynths, walking
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Typical spectral graph results from the methods shown in the below films can be viewed here. A complete re-write of the realtime isovist agents code into c++ has facilitated more complex isovist modelling and realtime analysis extracts. An updated version of the previously demonstrated movement within and perception of real plan space in realtime is shown above; below follow illustrations of new capabilities. As a secondary level, transparent barriers to movement can now be modelled and isovists related to vision […]
Categories: Research • Tags: agents, coding, isovists, realtime, soane
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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)
Categories: Architecture • Tags: labyrinths, work in progress
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Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Taken in Canterbury in March 2012
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[click & drag to pan] Wooden barn under reconstruction, recorded in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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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
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Taken in Brighton, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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.
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Download pdf Frazer, J. (1995), An Evolutionary Architecture. AA: London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: interaction
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Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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The work previously described here can now be applied to isolate 360 degree isovists in contiguous space. Doing so provides four distinct spatial classes of isovist. Below we use the Soane Museum to outline these types. ‘Accessible’ space: when all walls used to define isovists are considered as solid and impermeable to vision, the isovists describe only that space which is directly accessible and can be walked into. This allows us to examine complex networks of circulation in an architectural […]
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Download pdf Bondin, W. (2013) Embodied Dynamics, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: biomimetics, embodiment, GAD RC3
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Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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