ArcAngel Cornwall 2011
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Photo-record of ArcAngel’s 2011 sail around Cornwall, mooring at: Falmouth-Helston-Scillies-Padstow-Lundy-Milford Haven
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Photo-record of ArcAngel’s 2011 sail around Cornwall, mooring at: Falmouth-Helston-Scillies-Padstow-Lundy-Milford Haven
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[click & drag to pan] Recorded in Central London, in January 2012
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Taken at Castle Drogo, Devon, in March 2012
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Record and output from engagement sessions held with Hull Libraries service Librarians and staff in April and May 2012. The film takes the output of workshop discussions and brings them into an emergent briefing focus for future library interventions. Completed with Surface Architects.
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Geometric properties of an isovist provide a measure of the perceived spatiality from a defined ‘point of view’. As such they provide the basis for explorative movement, based on realtime numeric derivation of directional goals. Below we demonstrate three different movement strategies established in this manner. (above) Movement towards the perceived axial centroid of an unexplored space (axial movement). (above) Movement towards the nearest point on a perceived occluded edge of an unexplored space (proximal movement). (above) Movement towards the […]
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Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Download pdf Kritikou, A. (2013) Constructing the Experience, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (1979) Cybernetics of Cybernetics, Lecture, University of Illinois:Alabama, US
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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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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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These were recorded on a week’s sail from Falmouth in Cornwall to Milford Haven, Wales, via the Isles of Scilly, Padstow and Lundy. We were sailing northward about 5 miles off Lundy Island, spinnaker up under a southerly wind and making about 10 knots. A pod of about twenty dolphins came from all around and lined up to play on our bow wave for fifteen minutes or so. Five grown men were reduced to excited little boys. The minute we […]
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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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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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Taken near Battle, Kent, in August 2011
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Download pdf Davis, M. (1999), ‘Assault on German Village’, in Der Spiegel: Berlin, Ger.
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in August 2012
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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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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 in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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.
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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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.
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Download pdf Gage, S. (2007), The Boat/Helmsman, in Technoetic Arts, Intellect Ltd:Bristol, UK.
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Download pdf Koch, D. (2004), ‘Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning’, Licentiate Thesis, KTH, Stockholm:SWE.
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Download pdf Gage, S. (2006), The Wonder of Trivial Machines, Systems Research and Behavioural Science, vol.23, Wiley:London, UK. pp.771-8
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Taken near Lords Cricket Ground, North London, in May 2011
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Download pdf Psarra, S and McElhinney, S. (2014) Just Around the Corner from Where You Are: Probabilistic isovist fields, inference and embodied projection, in Koch, D and Miranda Carranza, P (eds), The Journal of Space Syntax, V.5 Issue 1, UCL, London. pp.109-132 The work described in this paper was supported by the UCL Space Group EPSRC platform grant EP/G02619X/1 (P7726), in the context of a research project on Dynamic Three Dimensional Space Syntax Modelling, directed by Sophia Psarra at UCL.
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Taken in Canterbury in March 2012
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Piece experimenting with the properties of a paper-clay mix to achieve more complex and delicate structures.
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