Perimeter in a simple gridisovists.org
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Graff'd dist board, Casa De Musica, Porto
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Party under the palms
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Marking desk
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Art Car Shoreditch
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Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Soane Museum: Real and Percieved Space
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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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Optimistic crowd control #london2012
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Taken in Hyde Park, Central London, in August 2012
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Chap I met in #Hull today
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Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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Birthday Cake
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Ooops
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#uca field trip #worldtour
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Post Op X-Ray No.1
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Castle
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Ashby: An Introduction to Cybernetics
by Sam
Download pdf Ashby, W.R. (1957) An Introduction to Cybernetics. Chapman and Hall: London, UK.
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Fields of marsh samphire
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On Belbulbin, looking down
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Beauty and grief
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Digital Agents: Agent-Maze Ecologies
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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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Tin Man at the entrance to Sligo Harbour. Dandy.
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Peekaboo with the Pringle
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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#uca
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Olympic Monolith
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Rome: Colour Sketches
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Pastel, pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
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Foam on beach at Sandymouth #nofilter
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Quiet day in the office
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Basketball Sky #london2012
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Solhem Barn
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[click & drag to pan] Wooden barn under reconstruction, recorded in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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Varna: Improvisational Choreography
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Download pdf Varna, C. (2013) Improvisational Choreography as a design language for Spatial Interaction, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Rome: Gardens and Ruins
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Pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
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A bit of swell off Eagle Island
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Axial Line Definitions
by Sam
Here we demonstrate an isovist based approach to definition of the axial lines of a space. The algorithm identifies the primary and secondary longest axial lines of each isovist in real-time. These are used to define a pair of median 2d centric points: Movement towards either of the median points causes following of the general axiality of the space as perceived at that location. Further sets of exploratory movements based on this approach are demonstrated here.
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Palladian Revelation in the Villa Rotonda
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#uca field trip #worldtour
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Rengran: Reification: Imitation, Symbol and Substitution
by Sam
Download pdf Rengran, Z. (2012) Reification:Imitation, Symbol and Substitution, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Elbow X-ray
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Budapest is cold #testicicles
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Bondin: Embodied Dynamics
by Sam
Download pdf Bondin, W. (2013) Embodied Dynamics, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: biomimetics, embodiment, GAD RC3
Pop Up Library
by Sam
Concept design for a ‘pop-up’ local library box to be installed in disused retail units. Rather than simply focussing on the materiel of books, the solution targets programmatic affordance, with projective and interactive surfaces, acoustic treatments that double as re-configurable seating seating and high density book storage and ‘vending’.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: drawings, installations, libraries, pop-up, temporary
UCA: Inflatables Workshop
by Sam
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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Palladio
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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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More dog and sea
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Glanville: Researching Design and Designing Research
by Sam
Download pdf Glanville, R. (1999), Researching Design and Designing Research, MIT Press:Cambridge, MA. pp.771-8
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Lenin in clingfilm
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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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Axial, Proximal and Distal movement
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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 […]
Mexican wrestling bar? Yes please
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Found by Rick Roberts in a Canterbury bookshop
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Taken in Canterbury in March 2012
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Current location
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