Jasmine Cottage – Extension
Private residential project near Oxford. Brief required the sensitive extension of a Grade 2 listed cottage to provide a new loft room space, access stair and addition of two new dormer windows.
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Boys, on Tor
by Sam
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Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
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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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Off Achill Island
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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
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 […]
Categories: Research • Tags: barcelona, coding, isovists, space syntax
HMV
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Boat
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Post Op X-ray No.2
by Sam
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Honfleur, Les Sardines
by Sam
Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Snapdragons #garden
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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.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: chaos, GAD RC3, interaction
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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Making plans
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Hmmm
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Red Triangles
by Sam
Taken in Oxford, in February 2012
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Olympic big boy
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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#Hull Trains
by Sam
Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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Solhem Barn Interior
by Sam
Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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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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A bit of swell off Eagle Island
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Porcelain: Pockets of Life
Hanging installation based on a series of porcelain hemispheres.
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Instagram Image
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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.
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Triangulated corner detail
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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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Metallic grey
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On the Beach at Lackan Bay
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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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Chap I met in #Hull today
by Sam
Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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Current location
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We did that
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in August 2012
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Moody
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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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Crisp
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Olympic Site pic
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Blank slates and new beginnings
by Sam
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#burningman
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Instagram Image
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Instagram Image
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#uca
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Inch Clare
by Sam
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Solhem Barn
by Sam
Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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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’.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: drawings, installations, libraries, pop-up, temporary
First of the season
by Sam
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Dolphin, chain and sun
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Lisboan, casual sunbathing
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Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
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This is where my parents are today #jealous
by Sam
Taken in a fjord in Norway in July 2012
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Ravinous
by Sam
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Instagram Image
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Ooops
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Sanlucar sunset
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