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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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 at the Royal Academy Summer Show, Central London, in August 2012
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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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Taken somewhere in Cornwall in December 2011
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Taken off the coast of South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Seascapes from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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[click & drag to pan] Discovered in Broadstairs, Kent, in January 2012
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A matrix of black and white chevrons which displays an inherent ability to iteratively resolve itself into a state of lower entropy. This process continues until a condition of equilibrium is established across the grid; from this point pattern iterations of the solution develop in perpetuity.
Series of mappings of key sites, contextual influences and opportunities within the ancient port-city of Valletta, Malta.
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Study of multiple generations of autonomous spatial agents progressing through a real-time reconfiguring maze-matrix. ‘Doors’ in this opened or closed depending on maze-inherent desires over occupation levels. Those that tended towards closure are illustrated as ‘walls’. Dependent on the desire sets exhibited by the maze, different ‘wall’ structures were observed. These can be related back to archetypal plan forms, suggesting an emergent occupational basis for common architectural devices.
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Download pdf Khan, O. and Beesley, P. (2009), ‘Responsive Architecture/Performing Instruments’, in Khan, O. Scholz, T. and Shepard, M. (eds.) Situated Technologies Pamphlets 4. The Architectural League of New York: New York, US.
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Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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Typical spectral graph results from the methods shown in the below films can be viewed here. A complete re-write of the realtime isovist agents code into c++ has facilitated more complex isovist modelling and realtime analysis extracts. An updated version of the previously demonstrated movement within and perception of real plan space in realtime is shown above; below follow illustrations of new capabilities. As a secondary level, transparent barriers to movement can now be modelled and isovists related to vision […]
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Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
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Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (2003) Understanding Understanding, Springer:New York, US
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Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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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Lizzie’s assorted travel sketches
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Pastel, pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
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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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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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Turtle conservation project, Costa Rica from Lizzie’s volunteer trip, 2005
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Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Deployable ‘installation in a box’ with reconfiguring chain of oak-wood elements and unfurling fabric pieces.
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