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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Quite a snout on it
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Bobbins
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Poser
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#Hull Trains
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Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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Castle
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Torro torro
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Copper skies at Kent cricket grounds
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Millfield Inflatables Day
by Sam
A day long adventure in the experimental making of inflatable structures with the pupils of Millfield Prep School, Somerset.
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Port tasting for two? Oh yes I will.
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Mers de Bains: Style collisions.
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Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Moody
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Greened brickwork in suburbia
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🤷🏻♂️
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Cornish tree
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Taken somewhere in Cornwall in December 2011
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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 […]
Categories: Research • Tags: isovists, space syntax
MUD Architecture site visit #nextproject #potential
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Liao: Shadow Performance
by Sam
Download pdf Liao, Q. (2012) Shadow Performance, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Von Foerster: On Constructing a Reality
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Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (1973) On Constructing a Reality, Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute:Virginia, US
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Starting our ten day marine trip from #Brighton Marina, actually an early Jan Kaplicky
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Taken in Brighton, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Beauty and grief
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Average Radial in a simple gridisovists.org
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Skewness in a simple gridisovists.org
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Solhem Barn
by Sam
Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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Selling out @royalacademy #RASummer Show
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Taken at the Royal Academy Summer Show, Central London, in August 2012
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Soane Museum: Real and Percieved Space
by Sam
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 […]
Categories: Research • Tags: agents, art, coding, drawings, isovists, labyrinths, mapping, mazes, space syntax
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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Honfleur, Emiette de Maquereau
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Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Battle Great Wood
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Taken near Battle, Kent, in August 2011
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Big piles of rock and snow
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Gandhi? endorses Portugese coffee.
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Rome: Colour Sketches
by Sam
Pastel, pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
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Harbour entrance #Dover
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Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Palladian Revelation in the Villa Rotonda
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Living toy cow. #nofilter
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Berardi: Predictable Unpredictability
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Download pdf Berardi, V. (2012) Predictable Unpredictability, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Inflate-able space
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Urban patina
by Sam
Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Basilica #budapest
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Stellata
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Tin Man at the entrance to Sligo Harbour. Dandy.
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Digital Agents: Cretan Palace Mappings
by Sam
Latest test outputs from an ongoing piece of research. The spectral chart produced shows the accumulative isovist mapping of autonomous spatial agents progressing in real-time through the archaeological plan of the ancient Cretan palace of Malia. Other record formats are also demonstrated. Each agents is capable of recognising the characteristics of its neighbours (displayed as modulated colours of isovist) and reacting to them. Social behaviours of seeking, following and fleeing contact are apparent as the agents collectively explore the palace […]
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Interesting NHS orthopaedic light fitting.
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Control in a simple gridisovists.org
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Ropey McRopeface
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#uca field trip #worldtour
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Solhem Barn
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Wooden barn under reconstruction, recorded in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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Off Achill Island
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A bit of swell off Eagle Island
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Current location
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Rome: Churches
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Pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
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