Drogo Jelly
by Sam
Taken at Castle Drogo, Devon, in March 2012
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Choppy seas, Margate pier
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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Selling out @royalacademy #RASummer Show
by Sam
Taken at the Royal Academy Summer Show, Central London, in August 2012
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#burningman
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Garden yellow no.2
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Seven Sisters. Under sail en route from Brighton to Dover, making a steady 9knots
by Sam
Taken off the coast of South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Birkbeck Process
by Sam
Film and animation of Surface Architects‘ design process for the complex geometric ‘residue’ of the Birkbeck Centre for Film and Visual Media, London. (See here for images and explanation of the completed project)
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Lloyds #cityday
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#Hull Trains
by Sam
Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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London 2012 Wayfinding Structures
by Sam
Completed with Surface Architects, who were appointed to work with LOCOG and ISG in the design and delivery of a family of high profile Wayfinding structures for the 2012 Olympic Park. The proposals combine historic vectors and iconic influences into a highly distinctive design that fits LOCOG’s original ‘look and feel’ brief. Each form incorporates LED backlighting, creating a field of glowing beacons across the Stratford Park. Six 7m high zone beacons, five 15m high major beacons and two 12m […]
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Hillier: Space is the Machine
by Sam
Download pdf Hillier, B (2007) Space is the machine: a configurational theory of architecture. Space Syntax: London, UK.
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Castle Drogo
by Sam
Taken at Castle Drogo, Devon, in March 2012
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Van Eyck
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Controllability in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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Olympic Site pic
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Villa, dissolved
by Sam
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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).
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More dog and sea
by Sam
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Wind turbine and rainbow #nofilter
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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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Morning light on the rhubarb
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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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Bondin: Embodied Dynamics
by Sam
Download pdf Bondin, W. (2013) Embodied Dynamics, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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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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Les Maquereau.
by Sam
Taken in Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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 […]
Valletta: Mapping the City
Series of mappings of key sites, contextual influences and opportunities within the ancient port-city of Valletta, Malta.
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Porcelain: Pockets of Life
Hanging installation based on a series of porcelain hemispheres.
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McElhinney: EURAU 2012
by Sam
Download pdf McElhinney, S. (2012) Reconstructing Urban Labyrinths, EURAU 2012 Proceedings, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto:Porto, Portugal.
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Copper skies at Kent cricket grounds
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 […]
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Great new book to read
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Home taping is killing music
by Sam
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MA tutor in action at Pett Bottom (where else)
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Here again
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Stellata
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Optimistic crowd control #london2012
by Sam
Taken in Hyde Park, Central London, in August 2012
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Alexander: Think of Me as Evil
by Sam
Download pdf Alexander, J. Crompton, T. and Shrubsole, G. (2011) Think of Me as Evil? Opening the Ethical Debates in Advertising. Public Interest Research Centre & WWF-UK: London, UK.
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Art Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Control in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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Spectrum
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in May 2012
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Millfield Inflatables Day
by Sam
A day long adventure in the experimental making of inflatable structures with the pupils of Millfield Prep School, Somerset.
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Breakfast of champions #letthemeatcake
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Birthday Cake
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Plaster Mould Fabrication
Manufacture of a set of plaster moulds for fine porcelain casting.
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Bobbins
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Gandhi? endorses Portugese coffee.
by Sam
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First of the season
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Olympic Monolith
by Sam
Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Instagram Image
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I am here
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Lisboa
by Sam
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St Michaels Mount
by Sam
Taken in Mounts Bay, Cornwall, in December 2011
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