Wind turbine and rainbow #nofilter
by Sam
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Castle Drogo
by Sam
Taken at Castle Drogo, Devon, in March 2012
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Instagram Image
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Torro torro
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Old bouquets
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Reflections and spatial fields in the Barcelona Pavilion
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 Mies Van Der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion. 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 […]
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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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#Guerilla garden under the westway flyover
by Sam
Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Spatial fields in Hypothetical Layouts
by Sam
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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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.
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Carmelite Cemetery, Porto
by Sam
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Costa Rica: Life
Life shots from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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Poissonnerie.
by Sam
Taken in Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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ArcAngel Dolphins
by Sam
These were recorded on a week’s sail from Falmouth in Cornwall to Milford Haven, Wales, via the Isles of Scilly, Padstow and Lundy. We were sailing northward about 5 miles off Lundy Island, spinnaker up under a southerly wind and making about 10 knots. A pod of about twenty dolphins came from all around and lined up to play on our bow wave for fifteen minutes or so. Five grown men were reduced to excited little boys. The minute we […]
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Valletta: Installation
Full scale ‘loom’ installation of drawn, written and modelled proposals for a lace making facility in the city of Valletta, Malta.
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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
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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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Castle
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Henri IV’s house in St Valerie
by Sam
Taken in St Valerie, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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#site
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Race day at Chiswick beach
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Honfleur, a single gratuitous touristy marina shot. Our vessel #Arcangel is slap in the centre. She is an #Arcona 41′
by Sam
Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Qingling: Mediated Reality In Bearable Prosthesis
by Sam
Download pdf Qingling, T. (2013) Mediated Reality In Bearable Prosthesis, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Leaky lock
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The Switching Labyrinth: Fabrication
by Sam
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)
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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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Meet Nando the chicken
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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🤷🏻♂️
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If Eisenmann/Liebeskind did road markings.
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in September 2012
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Dolphin, chain and sun
by Sam
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Grid Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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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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Olympic Monolith
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Graff'd dist board, Casa De Musica, Porto
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Snapdragons #garden
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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Obligatory Mezquita
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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.
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Gage: The Wonder of Trivial Machines
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2006), The Wonder of Trivial Machines, Systems Research and Behavioural Science, vol.23, Wiley:London, UK. pp.771-8
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Stop Thatcher
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Boat
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Saline drip and flowers
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MUD Architecture site visit #nextproject #potential
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Inch Clare
by Sam
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(Kite) surf’s up
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Average Radial in a simple gridisovists.org
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Digital Agents: Chiaroscuro Landscapes
by Sam
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.
Lisbon coffee shop
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Bondin: Embodied Dynamics
by Sam
Download pdf Bondin, W. (2013) Embodied Dynamics, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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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.
Here again
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Instagram Image
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Early blues
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On leave
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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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