Bit of gormer innit
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Solhem Wedding Reception
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[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.
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Update X-Ray
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Connectivity in a simple gridisovists.org
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Meet Nando the chicken
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
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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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Sleepy
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UCA third year architecture at Whitstable
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Teaser
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Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in January 2012
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Henri IV’s house in St Valerie
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Taken in St Valerie, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Bleak Horizons
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Occlusivity in a simple gridisovists.org
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Spectrum
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Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in May 2012
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Beak House Lisbon
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Old bouquets
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Instagram Image
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Isovist based Spatial Classifications
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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 […]
East Thames Floating Housing
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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.
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Ashby: An Introduction to Cybernetics
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Download pdf Ashby, W.R. (1957) An Introduction to Cybernetics. Chapman and Hall: London, UK.
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Poppy
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Taken in Kensal Green, North London, in April 2011
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More dog and sea
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First of a couple on the exuberant seaside terrace of Mers de Bains.
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Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Scene seen mid cycle
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Taken near Lords Cricket Ground, North London, in May 2011
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Gage: Edge Monkeys
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2005), Edge Monkeys, in Technoetic Arts, Intellect Ltd:Bristol, UK.
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Instagram Image
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Folkestone harbour arm
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(Kite) surf’s up
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Gage: Constructing the User
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Download pdf Gage, S. (2007), ‘Constructing the User’, in Systems Research and Behavioural Science, v.24, Wiley:London, UK. pp.313-22.
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Mers de Bains: Block corner.
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Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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The Generative Folly
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The Generative Folly was a week long building workshop with students from the Canterbury School of Architecture’s Third year Interior Architecture and Design BA and the MA Architecture courses. It was run in collaboration with Hanif Kara from Structural Engineers AKT II to come up with design solutions for the deployment of a repetitive timber module. 130 elements were prefabricated in the Canterbury workshop and over a week students developed competitive proposals, carried out structural tests and finally collaboratively assembled […]
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Jamóns!
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Digital Agents: Rotational Archaeologies
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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.
Qingling: Mediated Reality In Bearable Prosthesis
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Download pdf Qingling, T. (2013) Mediated Reality In Bearable Prosthesis, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Starting our ten day marine trip from #Brighton Marina, actually an early Jan Kaplicky
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Taken in Brighton, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Zhou: Embodiment and Hybrid Architecture
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Download pdf Zhou, X. (2012) Embodiment and Hybrid Architecture, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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BT future tech: pavement pop-up switcher
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The Epigenetic Object
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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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Dancing Chevrons
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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.
The Dog and the Sea
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Spatial fields in Hypothetical Layouts
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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).
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Hadjivasilli: Light, Perception and Environment
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Download pdf Hadjivasilli, M. (2012) Light, Perception and Environment, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Digital Agents: Chiaroscuro Landscapes
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Second implementation and testing of a species of autonomously visual spatial agents within an active digital environment. This demonstrates ability to deal with a high degree of complexity and activity within the context whilst achieving successful pathseeking behaviours based upon long-distance vision. This approach uses a raytrace mechanic basis for the generation and resolution of the isovist.
Perimeter in a simple gridisovists.org
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Mexican wrestling bar? Yes please
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Fields of marsh samphire
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Koch: Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning
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Download pdf Koch, D. (2004), ‘Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning’, Licentiate Thesis, KTH, Stockholm:SWE.
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Mers de Bains: Style collisions.
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Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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#site
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Hmmm
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Drift in a simple gridisovists.org
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A bit of swell off Eagle Island
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Sea of Galilee and a hot tub #win
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