Garden yellow no.2
by Sam
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CupASoup after coming through a force seven gusting eight. Safe harbour in Fecamp where we are told monks make strong liqueurs.
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Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Digital Agents: Cretan Palace Mappings
by Sam
Latest test outputs from an ongoing piece of research. The spectral chart produced shows the accumulative isovist mapping of autonomous spatial agents progressing in real-time through the archaeological plan of the ancient Cretan palace of Malia. Other record formats are also demonstrated. Each agents is capable of recognising the characteristics of its neighbours (displayed as modulated colours of isovist) and reacting to them. Social behaviours of seeking, following and fleeing contact are apparent as the agents collectively explore the palace […]
Categories: Research • Tags: agents, archaeology, coding, drawings, isovists, labyrinths, mapping, mazes
Sunset from the eaves bedroom
by Sam
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Scene seen mid cycle
by Sam
Taken near Lords Cricket Ground, North London, in May 2011
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Perimeter in a simple gridisovists.org
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Puzzling
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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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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Glanville: Researching Design and Designing Research
by Sam
Download pdf Glanville, R. (1999), Researching Design and Designing Research, MIT Press:Cambridge, MA. pp.771-8
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Army bivvy with cunning camo kit #london2012
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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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.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: installations, interaction
Heading for #Dieppe
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Taken off Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Libraries Platform
by Sam
Record and output from engagement sessions held with Hull Libraries service Librarians and staff in April and May 2012. The film takes the output of workshop discussions and brings them into an emergent briefing focus for future library interventions. Completed with Surface Architects.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: animation, coding, libraries
Reas: Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists
by Sam
Download pdf Reas, C. and Fry, B. (2007) Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, MIT Press:London, UK
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Corus Triathlon Infrastructure
by Sam
Animation of design proposals for a finish arch for UK Triathlon’s elite series hosting in Hyde Park, London. A series of folded steel barriers form the transition zones where athletes switch from swim to bike to running; before rising up to a triumphal finish and timing archway. Notions of the body as a wrapped form informed the folding geometries of the steel plates, which were provided to reflect Corus’ sponsorship of the event. Completed with Surface Architects.
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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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Compactness in a simple gridisovists.org
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Early blues
by Sam
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Current location
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Skewness in a simple gridisovists.org
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Digital Agents: Rotational Archaeologies
by Sam
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.
Letesson: Towards an Archaeology of Perception: ‘Looking’ at the Minoan Palaces
by Sam
Download pdf Letesson, Q. and Vansteenhuyse, K. (2006) Towards an Archaeology of the Perception: ‘Looking’ at the Minoan Palaces, in Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Equinox:Sheffield, UK. pp.91-119.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: archaeology, space syntax
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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Timber, light, feet
by Sam
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Precious little to report from Dieppe, so here is an onboard cheese board. Now in St Valerie en Caux, mtf.
by Sam
Taken in Dieppe, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Sanlucar sunset
by Sam
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Warhol Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Stellata
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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Costa Rica: Seascapes
Seascapes from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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Stop Thatcher
by Sam
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Long way down
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Vista in a simple gridisovists.org
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Olympic big boy
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Field trip planning underway….
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Gage: How to Design a Black and White Box
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2007), ‘How to design a black and white box’, Kybernetes, vol.36 no.9/10, Emerald:UK. pp.1329-39.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
Solhem Barn
by Sam
Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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Instagram Image
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Quite a snout on it
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East Thames Floating Housing
by Sam
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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Holy fellow in a hat
by Sam
Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Moody
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Doorbell detail, Córdoba
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MUD Architecture site visit #nextproject #potential
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Stoneware: Throwing
Workshop output from July 2012; a first attempt at throwing stoneware.
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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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#uca field trip #worldtour
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Folded array
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Ropey McRopeface
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Ooops
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Instagram Image
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Travel Sketches
Lizzie’s assorted travel sketches
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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.
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Beak House Lisbon
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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