Gage: Constructing the User
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2007), ‘Constructing the User’, in Systems Research and Behavioural Science, v.24, Wiley:London, UK. pp.313-22.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: observer, performance
Baby samphire
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Elbow X-ray
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Suspended stair; early future systems
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Taken in Brighton, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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The Switching Labyrinth: Installation
by Sam
A large installation constructed in a warehouse near Euston, London, in 2009, ‘The Switching Labyrinth’ provided a framework for two weeks of real-time interactive experimentation and observation. 250 metres of black curtains constructed a wrapping of pathways around a central ‘room’, where sliding curtain ‘doors’ periodically shifted, ‘switching’ openings to offer alternative entrance and exits. As an occupant navigated and learnt about the installation, it too observed them, learing about how it was explored and unilaterally modulating its entangling paths […]
Categories: Architecture • Tags: installations, labyrinths, temporary
Spatial fields in Hypothetical Layouts
by Sam
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).
Categories: Research • Tags: coding, fields, isovists, mapping, space syntax
#uca
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HMV
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Party under the palms
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Interesting NHS orthopaedic light fitting.
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Meet Nando the chicken
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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MUD Architecture site visit #nextproject #potential
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More dog and sea
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Gage: The Wonder of Trivial Machines
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2006), The Wonder of Trivial Machines, Systems Research and Behavioural Science, vol.23, Wiley:London, UK. pp.771-8
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
Lisboan, casual sunbathing
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Mexican wrestling bar? Yes please
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Holy fellow in a hat
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Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Instagram Image
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We did that
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in August 2012
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Spectrum
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Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in May 2012
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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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Olympic Monolith
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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I am here
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Beak House Lisbon
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Palladio
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Dancing Chevrons
by Sam
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.
Perimeter in a simple gridisovists.org
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Morning light on the rhubarb
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Timber, light, feet
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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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If Eisenmann/Liebeskind did road markings.
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in September 2012
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Garden yellow no.2
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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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Gladiolus
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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.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics, delight, GAD RC3, mobiles
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Digital Agents: Agent-Maze Dialogues
by Sam
Study of an autonomous spatial agent progressing through a real-time reconfiguring maze-matrix. Agent behaviours changed in response to modulation of individual spatial ‘desires’ and the ‘discovered’ or observed changing environment. Dependent on variation and combination of desire sets, different movement typologies can be categorised; these have a direct relation back to ancient labyrinth form elements. An emergent, emotive root for the occupation and understanding of spatialities is implied.
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Off Achill Island
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Cider barn at The Newt, Somerset
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Costa Rica: Seascapes
Seascapes from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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Precious little to report from Dieppe, so here is an onboard cheese board. Now in St Valerie en Caux, mtf.
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Taken in Dieppe, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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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Bloomsbury Cider Press: Plans and Sections
by Sam
Hypothetical design for an apple tree nursery and cider mill in Bloomsbury, London. Completed in collaboration with Tetsuro Nagata
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CEU OD&T
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Saline drip and flowers
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Palladian Drift, Villa Rotonda
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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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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 […]
(Kite) surf’s up
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Red Triangles
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Taken in Oxford, in February 2012
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Basilica #budapest
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Port tasting for two? Oh yes I will.
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Moody
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