Walking Places: Naughty but Nice
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[click & drag to pan] Discovered in Broadstairs, Kent, in January 2012
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[click & drag to pan] Discovered in Broadstairs, Kent, in January 2012
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Taken in Canterbury in March 2012
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Hypothetical design for an apple tree nursery and cider mill in Bloomsbury, London. Completed in collaboration with Tetsuro Nagata
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Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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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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Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in September 2012
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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 […]
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Download pdf McElhinney, S. (2009) Labyrinths, Mazes and the Spaces Inbetween, Masters Thesis, University College London:London, UK.
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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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Taken in Boulogne, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Taken in Brighton, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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
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Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Taken near Battle, Kent, in August 2011
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Geometric properties of an isovist provide a measure of the perceived spatiality from a defined ‘point of view’. As such they provide the basis for explorative movement, based on realtime numeric derivation of directional goals. Below we demonstrate three different movement strategies established in this manner. (above) Movement towards the perceived axial centroid of an unexplored space (axial movement). (above) Movement towards the nearest point on a perceived occluded edge of an unexplored space (proximal movement). (above) Movement towards the […]
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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.
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Taken in Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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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Download pdf Gage, S. (2007), The Boat/Helmsman, in Technoetic Arts, Intellect Ltd:Bristol, UK.
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Download pdf Prougestaporn, N. (2012) Interactive Mobile Theatre, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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A conversion of the isovist-agent software into c++ has led to a number of performance improvements. As a result new complexities of isovist analysis can be calculated and recorded in realtime. This includes reflection and projection of spatial depth; ie mirror and glazing surfaces, as well as barriers and mobile elements. A plan of the Soane Museum in London is being used as a test analysis for the system. These images illustrate different ‘spectral’ recordings of the spatial depths perceived […]
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Ongoing work restoring period furniture
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Iterative ‘loom’ models proposing points and forms of intervention within the Valletta context. Based on an in-depth examination of the locally contextual and historically significant practice and processes of silk lace weaving, these models proposed a series of interventions within the ancient city fortifications.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: models, valletta
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[click & drag to pan] Jake and Charlotta’s reception was held in an old milking barn. The bar was in the central wooden feed-trough Recorded in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011.
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Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in January 2012
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