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
Poppy
by Sam
Taken in Kensal Green, North London, in April 2011
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On the Beach at Lackan Bay
by Sam
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First of a couple on the exuberant seaside terrace of Mers de Bains.
by Sam
Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Rome: Gardens and Ruins
by Sam
Pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
Categories: Doodles & Scribbles • Tags: drawings, rome
Chap I met in #Hull today
by Sam
Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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Rush hour on the Thames
by Sam
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Folded array
by Sam
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Festive self portrait
by Sam
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Rooftop cactus garden above the Douro, Porto.
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
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(Kite) surf’s up
by Sam
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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
Ashby: An Introduction to Cybernetics
by Sam
Download pdf Ashby, W.R. (1957) An Introduction to Cybernetics. Chapman and Hall: London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
Oak Artefacts
Deployable ‘installation in a box’ with reconfiguring chain of oak-wood elements and unfurling fabric pieces.
Categories: Upholstery • Tags: installations, models
Drift in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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Cider barn at The Newt, Somerset
by Sam
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Kritikou: Constructing the Experience
by Sam
Download pdf Kritikou, A. (2013) Constructing the Experience, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics, GAD RC3, phenomenology
Alcazar gardens
by Sam
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Holy fellow in a hat
by Sam
Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Castle Drogo
by Sam
Taken at Castle Drogo, Devon, in March 2012
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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Reflections and spatial fields in the Barcelona Pavilion
by Sam
The below diagrams are a taxonomic series in which we apply the methods described here and the spatial classifications described here to a plan analysis of Mies Van Der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion. 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 […]
Categories: Research • Tags: barcelona, coding, isovists, space syntax
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.
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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
Optimistic crowd control #london2012
by Sam
Taken in Hyde Park, Central London, in August 2012
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Poissonnerie.
by Sam
Taken in Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Summer
by Sam
Taken on Hampstead Heath, North London, in May 2011
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Rochester Suburban Tropicana
by Sam
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Costa Rica: Seascapes
Seascapes from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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Moody
by Sam
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Von Foerster: Cybernetics of Cybernetics
by Sam
Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (1979) Cybernetics of Cybernetics, Lecture, University of Illinois:Alabama, US
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Instagram Image
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
Qingling: Mediated Reality In Bearable Prosthesis
by Sam
Download pdf Qingling, T. (2013) Mediated Reality In Bearable Prosthesis, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: GAD RC3, prosthetics, reality
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
Post Op X-Ray No.1
by Sam
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Current location
by Sam
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Decaying light
by Sam
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Solhem Barn Interior
by Sam
Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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Starting our ten day marine trip from #Brighton Marina, actually an early Jan Kaplicky
by Sam
Taken in Brighton, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Triangulated corner detail
by Sam
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Basilica #budapest
by Sam
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One last visual step depth screenshot #splat
by Sam
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St Michaels Mount
by Sam
Taken in Mounts Bay, Cornwall, in December 2011
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Valletta: Models
Iterative ‘loom’ models proposing points and forms of intervention within the Valletta context. Based on an in-depth examination of the locally contextual and historically significant practice and processes of silk lace weaving, these models proposed a series of interventions within the ancient city fortifications.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: models, valletta
Castle
by Sam
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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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Soane
by Sam
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Hmmm
by Sam
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MA tutor in action at Pett Bottom (where else)
by Sam
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White Cliffs and blue skies over Dover.
by Sam
Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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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On Belbulbin, looking down
by Sam
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