Army bivvy with cunning camo kit #london2012
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Taken off the coast of South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Taken at the Royal Academy Summer Show, Central London, in August 2012
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Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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 Pask, G. (1968) ‘A Comment, a Case History and a Plan’ in Reichardt. J (ed.) Cybernetic Serendipity, ICA:London, UK
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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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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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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.
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Taken in a fjord in Norway in July 2012
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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 […]
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Download pdf Frazer, J. (1995), An Evolutionary Architecture. AA: London, UK.
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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 […]
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Download pdf Rengran, Z. (2012) Reification:Imitation, Symbol and Substitution, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Taken in Boulogne, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Taken off Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Hypothetical design for an apple tree nursery and cider mill in Bloomsbury, London. Completed in collaboration with Tetsuro Nagata
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Taken in Oxford, in February 2012
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Traditional cider mill and cider brandy distillery in Somerset, West England. Visited in April 2008
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Download pdf Turing, A. (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Mind 49:London, UK pp.433-460.
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Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Much of the work for an installation focusses on how to construct it; metaphorically but also literally. This habitually hidden process deserves documentation as much as anything else; Architecture is, after all, often about delivery. This gallery shows some of the design drawings, prototyping and mass construction processes of the framework and intelligent acutation mechanisms for ‘The Switching Labyrinth’ installation. (See here for the completed project)
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A day long adventure in the experimental making of inflatable structures with the pupils of Millfield Prep School, Somerset.
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Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (1979) Cybernetics of Cybernetics, Lecture, University of Illinois:Alabama, US
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Deployable ‘installation in a box’ with reconfiguring chain of oak-wood elements and unfurling fabric pieces.
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[click & drag to pan] Wooden barn under reconstruction, recorded in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Pastel, pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
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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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Piece experimenting with the properties of a paper-clay mix to achieve more complex and delicate structures.
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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’.
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