London 2012 Wayfinding Structures
by Sam
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
Liao: Shadow Performance
by Sam
Download pdf Liao, Q. (2012) Shadow Performance, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: GAD RC3, installations, interaction, mobiles, performance, shadows
White Cliffs and blue skies over Dover.
by Sam
Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
Categories: Instagram Feed, Visual Vitamins • Tags: arcangel
Rochester Suburban Tropicana
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
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
Connectivity in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Controllability in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Meet Nando the chicken
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
Categories: Instagram Feed, Visual Vitamins
If Eisenmann/Liebeskind did road markings.
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in September 2012
Categories: Instagram Feed, Visual Vitamins • Tags: graffiti
On leave
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Alcazar gardens
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Zhou: Embodiment and Hybrid Architecture
by Sam
Download pdf Zhou, X. (2012) Embodiment and Hybrid Architecture, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: embodiment, GAD RC3
Garden yellow no.1
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Instagram Image
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Stoneware: Throwing
Workshop output from July 2012; a first attempt at throwing stoneware.
Categories: Ceramics • Tags: stoneware, work in progress
Castle
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
US out of Grenada
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
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 […]
Categories: Research • Tags: photosynths, walking
Reflections and spatial fields in the Soane Museum
by Sam
The below diagrams are a taxonomic series in which we apply the methods described here and the spatial classifications described here to a plan analysis of Sir John Soane’s Museum. 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 […]
Categories: Research • Tags: coding, isovists, soane, space syntax
Crisp
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Isovist based Spatial Classifications
by Sam
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 […]
Les Maquereau.
by Sam
Taken in Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
Categories: Instagram Feed, Visual Vitamins • Tags: arcangel
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
Hmmm
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
On the Beach at Lackan Bay
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
St Michaels Mount
by Sam
Taken in Mounts Bay, Cornwall, in December 2011
Categories: Instagram Feed, Visual Vitamins • Tags: cornwall
Koch: Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning
by Sam
Download pdf Koch, D. (2004), ‘Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning’, Licentiate Thesis, KTH, Stockholm:SWE.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: space syntax
Here again
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
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
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
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.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: choreography, dance, GAD RC3, performance
Interesting NHS orthopaedic light fitting.
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Canterbury Bells #garden
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Triangulated corner detail
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Last shot of #Boulogne, which bizarrely had numerous #Welsh restaurants. Anyone know why?
by Sam
Taken in Boulogne, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
Categories: Instagram Feed, Visual Vitamins • Tags: arcangel
Urban patina
by Sam
Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
Categories: Instagram Feed, Visual Vitamins • Tags: graffiti
Solhem Barn
by Sam
Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
Categories: Instagram Feed, Visual Vitamins • Tags: travel
Skewness in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
The Scalpel builds itself
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
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.
Categories: Research • Tags: drawings, labyrinths
Xiaomeng: Virtual Pheromone and Environment Dialogues
by Sam
Download pdf Xiaomeng, S. (2012) Virtual Pheromone and Environment Dialogues, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: biomimetics, GAD RC3, installations, pheromones
Porcelain: Pockets of Life
Hanging installation based on a series of porcelain hemispheres.
Categories: Ceramics • Tags: installations, porcelain
Big piles of rock and snow
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Instagram Image
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
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
Categories: Instagram Feed, Visual Vitamins • Tags: arcangel
Copper skies at Kent cricket grounds
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Stop Thatcher
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Davis: Assault on German Village
by Sam
Download pdf Davis, M. (1999), ‘Assault on German Village’, in Der Spiegel: Berlin, Ger.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: history
Instagram Image
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Mexican wrestling bar? Yes please
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Villa, dissolved
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Instagram Image
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed
Weak form roof and window
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
Categories: Instagram Feed, Visual Vitamins • Tags: london
Chesil and back
by Sam
Categories: Instagram Feed