Basilica #budapest
by Sam
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Digital Agents: Agent-Maze Ecologies
by Sam
Study of multiple generations of autonomous spatial agents progressing through a real-time reconfiguring maze-matrix. ‘Doors’ in this opened or closed depending on maze-inherent desires over occupation levels. Those that tended towards closure are illustrated as ‘walls’. Dependent on the desire sets exhibited by the maze, different ‘wall’ structures were observed. These can be related back to archetypal plan forms, suggesting an emergent occupational basis for common architectural devices.
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Bike
by Sam
Taken on Hampstead Heath, North London, in January 2012
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Hmmm
by Sam
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Copper skies at Kent cricket grounds
by Sam
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Stellata
by Sam
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Letesson: From ‘Party’ to ‘Ritual’ to ‘Ruin’ in Minoan Crete: the Spatial Context of Feasting
by Sam
Download pdf Letesson, Q. and Driessen, J. (2008) From ‘Party’ to ‘Ritual’ to ‘Ruin’: The Spatial Context of Feasting, in Hitchcock, L. Laffineur, R. and Crowley, J. CROWLEY (eds), DAIS, The Aegean Feast (AEGAEUM 29), University of Liège:Liège-Austin,BEL. pp. 207-215
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Pom-Pom in red
by Sam
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Prougestaporn: Interactive Mobile Theatre
by Sam
Download pdf Prougestaporn, N. (2012) Interactive Mobile Theatre, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics, GAD RC3, interaction, mobiles
Von Foerster: Understanding Understanding
by Sam
Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (2003) Understanding Understanding, Springer:New York, US
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Rush hour on the Thames
by Sam
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Soane Museum: Real and Percieved Space
by Sam
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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Boys, on Tor
by Sam
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Interesting NHS orthopaedic light fitting.
by Sam
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Festive self portrait
by Sam
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Looking up
by Sam
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Metallic grey
by Sam
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Realtime & Reflective Isovist Agents
by Sam
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 […]
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Race day at Chiswick beach
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Triangulated corner detail
by Sam
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Lisboan, casual sunbathing
by Sam
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Leaky lock
by Sam
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Rochester Suburban Tropicana
by Sam
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Bloomsbury Cider Press: Detail drawings
by Sam
Hypothetical design for an apple tree nursery and cider mill in Bloomsbury, London. Completed in collaboration with Tetsuro Nagata
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Alexander: Think of Me as Evil
by Sam
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.
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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.
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More dog and sea
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.
Garden yellow no.1
by Sam
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Magnolia seed harvest #orange #newbeginnings
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Hmmm
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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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Must be in France.
by Sam
Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Mers de Bains: Side street
by Sam
Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Warhol Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Varna: Improvisational Choreography
by Sam
Download pdf Varna, C. (2013) Improvisational Choreography as a design language for Spatial Interaction, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Odd Centre Pompidou popup in Boulogne.
by Sam
Taken in Boulogne, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Harbour entrance #Dover
by Sam
Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Vista in a simple gridisovists.org
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Valletta: Models
Iterative ‘loom’ models proposing points and forms of intervention within the Valletta context. Based on an in-depth examination of the locally contextual and historically significant practice and processes of silk lace weaving, these models proposed a series of interventions within the ancient city fortifications.
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Frazer: An Evolutionary Architecture
by Sam
Download pdf Frazer, J. (1995), An Evolutionary Architecture. AA: London, UK.
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Gandhi? endorses Portugese coffee.
by Sam
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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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Timber, light, feet
by Sam
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Boat
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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Heading for #Dieppe
by Sam
Taken off Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Sea of Galilee and a hot tub #win
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Long way down
by Sam
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Variance in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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Found by Rick Roberts in a Canterbury bookshop
by Sam
Taken in Canterbury in March 2012
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