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 […]
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Subliminal Brexit messaging
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Stochastic Isovist Fields
by Sam
When isovist analysis is applied to a plan in its totality (rather than to individual locations of special interest), one issue to be resolved by appropriate convention is the identification of “all points” from which isovists will be drawn. The nature of space is such that the actual number of possible points is infinite. In conventional approaches (such as UCL’s ‘Depthmap’ programme), an square tessellation of samples is adopted. Such a method establishes ‘all points’ as having a uniform and […]
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Birkbeck Process
by Sam
Film and animation of Surface Architects‘ design process for the complex geometric ‘residue’ of the Birkbeck Centre for Film and Visual Media, London. (See here for images and explanation of the completed project)
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Most epic stamp-age
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Magnolia seed harvest #orange #newbeginnings
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Walking Places: Naughty but Nice
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Discovered in Broadstairs, Kent, in January 2012
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McElhinney: EURAU 2012
by Sam
Download pdf McElhinney, S. (2012) Reconstructing Urban Labyrinths, EURAU 2012 Proceedings, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto:Porto, Portugal.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: labyrinths, london 2012
Rochester Suburban Tropicana
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The Switching Labyrinth: Installation
by Sam
A large installation constructed in a warehouse near Euston, London, in 2009, ‘The Switching Labyrinth’ provided a framework for two weeks of real-time interactive experimentation and observation. 250 metres of black curtains constructed a wrapping of pathways around a central ‘room’, where sliding curtain ‘doors’ periodically shifted, ‘switching’ openings to offer alternative entrance and exits. As an occupant navigated and learnt about the installation, it too observed them, learing about how it was explored and unilaterally modulating its entangling paths […]
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Perpendicular gothic meets data integration
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If Eisenmann/Liebeskind did road markings.
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in September 2012
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Hedge perfection
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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
Hyperbolic Geometries
by Sam
If a labyrinth is a continual spatial line, tightly wound onto, but never intersecting itself, what does it become if it is lifted into a different geometry and dimension? What novel things might this tell us about the spaces we construct and how we gain delight through their occupation? This experimental prototyping explores hyperbolic geometry; where instead of being limited to one degree of parallel line, infinite variation can be achieved. This project is ongoing.
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Costa Rica: Life
Life shots from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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St Pancras
by Sam
Taken in St Pancras, North London, in January 2012
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Palladian Revelation in the Villa Rotonda
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Von Foerster: On Constructing a Reality
by Sam
Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (1973) On Constructing a Reality, Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute:Virginia, US
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Ashby: An Introduction to Cybernetics
by Sam
Download pdf Ashby, W.R. (1957) An Introduction to Cybernetics. Chapman and Hall: London, UK.
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Heathrow window detail
by Sam
Taken in Heathrow, West London, in July 2012
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Instagram Image
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Costa Rica: Seascapes
Seascapes from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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Berardi: Predictable Unpredictability
by Sam
Download pdf Berardi, V. (2012) Predictable Unpredictability, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Pom-Pom in red
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Ebb and Flow
by Sam
An interactive water and light fitting. Pools of rippling light are formed on the ceiling by the lensing affects of suspended crystal bowls agitated by micro fans. Designed and produced with Jason Bruges Studio.
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Ropey McRopeface
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Pop Up Library
by Sam
Concept design for a ‘pop-up’ local library box to be installed in disused retail units. Rather than simply focussing on the materiel of books, the solution targets programmatic affordance, with projective and interactive surfaces, acoustic treatments that double as re-configurable seating seating and high density book storage and ‘vending’.
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Holy distillery
by Sam
Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Breakfast of champions #letthemeatcake
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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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The Generative Folly
by Sam
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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Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
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Budapest is cold #testicicles
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#uca field trip #worldtour
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Peekaboo with the Pringle
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Greened brickwork in suburbia
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Jamóns!
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Instagram Image
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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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Honfleur, wooden church interior.
by Sam
Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Axial Line Definitions
by Sam
Here we demonstrate an isovist based approach to definition of the axial lines of a space. The algorithm identifies the primary and secondary longest axial lines of each isovist in real-time. These are used to define a pair of median 2d centric points: Movement towards either of the median points causes following of the general axiality of the space as perceived at that location. Further sets of exploratory movements based on this approach are demonstrated here.
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Beauty and grief
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Lenin in clingfilm
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Bleak Horizons
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Harbour entrance #Dover
by Sam
Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Boys, on Tor
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Dartmoor Tors
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Cox Tor above, Beardown Tor below. Recorded on Dartmoor, South West England, in March 2012.
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Optimistic crowd control #london2012
by Sam
Taken in Hyde Park, Central London, in August 2012
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Leaky lock
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Olympic Site pic
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Stellata
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JellyBeats Installation
by Sam
Micro-Installation produced for Bompass and Parr in 2010 as part of their exhibition and venue ‘The Complete History of Food’. A ‘bioresponsive jelly’ was made to pulse in time with the observer’s heat-beat, providing an instant and amusing interaction as they ate it. It is suprising what people will willingly push their fingers into.
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Torro torro
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Timber, light, feet
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