Oak Artefacts
Deployable ‘installation in a box’ with reconfiguring chain of oak-wood elements and unfurling fabric pieces.
Categories: Upholstery • Tags: installations, models
Control in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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Olympic Flowers
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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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
Walking Places: Harrods
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Recorded in Central London, in January 2012
Categories: Research • Tags: food, photosynths, walking
Quiet day in the office
by Sam
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Dartmoor Tors
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Cox Tor above, Beardown Tor below. Recorded on Dartmoor, South West England, in March 2012.
Categories: Travel Records, Visual Vitamins • Tags: photosynths, walking
Jasmine Cottage – Extension
Private residential project near Oxford. Brief required the sensitive extension of a Grade 2 listed cottage to provide a new loft room space, access stair and addition of two new dormer windows.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: completed, private residential
Abandoned at Quintins Boat Club
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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East Thames Floating Housing
by Sam
Mapping of strategic opportunities on the tideways and basins of the East Thames, London. This work lead to identification of potential forms and typologies of housing to be floated on the river as a response to limited supply of key worker and family home supply in the surrounding areas.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: drawings, mapping
Found by Rick Roberts in a Canterbury bookshop
by Sam
Taken in Canterbury in March 2012
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Von Foerster: On Constructing a Reality
by Sam
Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (1973) On Constructing a Reality, Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute:Virginia, US
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
Digital Agents: Chiaroscuro Landscapes
by Sam
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.
Warhol Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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#uca field trip #worldtour
by Sam
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Travel Sketches
Lizzie’s assorted travel sketches
Categories: Doodles & Scribbles • Tags: travel
Most epic stamp-age
by Sam
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Obligatory Mezquita
by Sam
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Precious little to report from Dieppe, so here is an onboard cheese board. Now in St Valerie en Caux, mtf.
by Sam
Taken in Dieppe, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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On Belbulbin, looking down
by Sam
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Inch Clare
by Sam
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Hyperbolic Geometries
by Sam
If a labyrinth is a continual spatial line, tightly wound onto, but never intersecting itself, what does it become if it is lifted into a different geometry and dimension? What novel things might this tell us about the spaces we construct and how we gain delight through their occupation? This experimental prototyping explores hyperbolic geometry; where instead of being limited to one degree of parallel line, infinite variation can be achieved. This project is ongoing.
Categories: Research • Tags: hyperbolics, work in progress
Hedge perfection
by Sam
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Dolphin, chain and sun
by Sam
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Budapest is cold #testicicles
by Sam
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Snapdragons #garden
by Sam
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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.
Instagram Image
by Sam
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St Pancras
by Sam
Taken in St Pancras, North London, in January 2012
Categories: Instagram Feed, Visual Vitamins • Tags: travel
Inflate-able space
by Sam
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Reas: Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists
by Sam
Download pdf Reas, C. and Fry, B. (2007) Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, MIT Press:London, UK
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: coding
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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Puzzling
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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Port tasting for two? Oh yes I will.
by Sam
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Scene seen mid cycle
by Sam
Taken near Lords Cricket Ground, North London, in May 2011
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Subliminal Brexit messaging
by Sam
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Baby samphire
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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Crisp
by Sam
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Foam on beach at Sandymouth #nofilter
by Sam
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Post Op X-Ray No.1
by Sam
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Early blues
by Sam
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Berardi: Predictable Unpredictability
by Sam
Download pdf Berardi, V. (2012) Predictable Unpredictability, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: chaos, GAD RC3, interaction
#uca
by Sam
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UEL Reception
by Sam
Taken in Docklands, East London, in July 2012
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Choppy seas, Margate pier
by Sam
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St Michaels Mount
by Sam
Taken in Mounts Bay, Cornwall, in December 2011
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Optimistic crowd control #london2012
by Sam
Taken in Hyde Park, Central London, in August 2012
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Rome: Colour Sketches
by Sam
Pastel, pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
Categories: Doodles & Scribbles • Tags: drawings, rome
Canterbury Bells #garden
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
Categories: Travel Records, Visual Vitamins • Tags: arcangel, cornwall, travel