Weak form roof and window
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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A bit of swell off Eagle Island
by Sam
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Rush hour on the Thames
by Sam
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Birthday Cake
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Endike Primary School, Hull
by Sam
RIBA Stage E design completed with Surface Architects as part of the Hull BSF Programme. Includes provision for a shared local library and full scale performance spaces.
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Long way down
by Sam
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Hedge perfection
by Sam
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ArcAngel Cornwall 2011
by Sam
Photo-record of ArcAngel’s 2011 sail around Cornwall, mooring at: Falmouth-Helston-Scillies-Padstow-Lundy-Milford Haven
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Honfleur, wooden tower with buttressing details.
by Sam
Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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We did that
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in August 2012
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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 […]
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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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Found by Rick Roberts in a Canterbury bookshop
by Sam
Taken in Canterbury in March 2012
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Alcazar gardens
by Sam
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Quite a snout on it
by Sam
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Quiet day in the office
by Sam
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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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Doorbell detail, Córdoba
by Sam
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Grid Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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@swix saw this and thought of you #underpass #edge-space
by Sam
Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Valletta: Sectional Drawings
Sectional and material proposals for a new lace weaving facility within the ancient city fortifications of Valletta, Malta.
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Castle Drogo
by Sam
Taken at Castle Drogo, Devon, in March 2012
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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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Kito: Delight in Architecture
by Sam
Download pdf (if you tweet or facebook it) Kito, A. (2012) Delight in Architecture, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Tin Man at the entrance to Sligo Harbour. Dandy.
by Sam
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Very little house
by Sam
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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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Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
by Sam
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Palladio
by Sam
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Walking Places: Harrods
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Recorded in Central London, in January 2012
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🤷🏻♂️
by Sam
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Les Maquereau.
by Sam
Taken in Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Moody
by Sam
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Red Triangles
by Sam
Taken in Oxford, in February 2012
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Post Op X-ray No.2
by Sam
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Subliminal Brexit messaging
by Sam
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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Mers de Bains: Side street
by Sam
Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Beauty and grief
by Sam
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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 […]
Average Radial in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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Bleak Horizons
by Sam
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Gage: Edge Monkeys
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2005), Edge Monkeys, in Technoetic Arts, Intellect Ltd:Bristol, UK.
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Pask: A Comment, A Case History and A Plan
by Sam
Download pdf Pask, G. (1968) ‘A Comment, a Case History and a Plan’ in Reichardt. J (ed.) Cybernetic Serendipity, ICA:London, UK
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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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Digital Agents: Rotational Archaeologies
by Sam
Prototype testing of the responsiveness of high resolution, autonomously visual spatial agents within an active digital environment. This approach uses a geometric basis for the resolution and intersectional calculations of each agent’s ‘isovist’ or visual field, leading to successful pathseeking behaviours.
UCA: Inflatables Workshop
by Sam
Unit design workshop held at the start of the academic year 2011-12 at UCA examining potential modes of ‘self-making’ of low-tech inflatable structures.
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Kritikou: Constructing the Experience
by Sam
Download pdf Kritikou, A. (2013) Constructing the Experience, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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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.
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Welly action
by Sam
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Costa Rica: Turtles
Turtle conservation project, Costa Rica from Lizzie’s volunteer trip, 2005
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Race day at Chiswick beach
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Puzzling
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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