#uca field trip #worldtour
by Sam
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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.
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Great new book to read
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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More dog and sea
by Sam
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Current location
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Canterbury Bells #garden
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Hedge perfection
by Sam
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Update X-Ray
by Sam
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Torro torro
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#uca
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The Stags, off Buddagh
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Sleepy
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Endike Primary School, Hull
by Sam
RIBA Stage E design completed with Surface Architects as part of the Hull BSF Programme. Includes provision for a shared local library and full scale performance spaces.
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St Michaels Mount
by Sam
Taken in Mounts Bay, Cornwall, in December 2011
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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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Prougestaporn: Interactive Mobile Theatre
by Sam
Download pdf Prougestaporn, N. (2012) Interactive Mobile Theatre, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics, GAD RC3, interaction, mobiles
Von Foerster: Understanding Understanding
by Sam
Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (2003) Understanding Understanding, Springer:New York, US
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Heron
by Sam
Taken at Chiswick House, West London, in July 2012
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Dolphin, chain and sun
by Sam
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Birthday Cake
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Skewness in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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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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Snapdragons #garden
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McElhinney: European Meeting of Cybernetics and Systems Research 2010
by Sam
Download pdf McElhinney, S. (2010) Labyrinths, Mazes and the Spaces Inbetween, in Robert Trappl (ed), Cybernetics and Systems, V.20, Austrian Society for Cybernetics Studies:Vienna, Austria. pp.104-109
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics, labyrinths, mazes
Hmmm
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#uca field trip #worldtour
by Sam
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Morning light on the rhubarb
by Sam
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JellyBeats Installation
by Sam
Micro-Installation produced for Bompass and Parr in 2010 as part of their exhibition and venue ‘The Complete History of Food’. A ‘bioresponsive jelly’ was made to pulse in time with the observer’s heat-beat, providing an instant and amusing interaction as they ate it. It is suprising what people will willingly push their fingers into.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: food, installations, interaction, temporary
Davis: Assault on German Village
by Sam
Download pdf Davis, M. (1999), ‘Assault on German Village’, in Der Spiegel: Berlin, Ger.
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Rush hour on the Thames
by Sam
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Psarra & McElhinney: Just Around The Corner From Where You Are
by Sam
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.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: isovists, mapping
One last visual step depth screenshot #splat
by Sam
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Sanlucar sunset
by Sam
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Poser
by Sam
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Bloomsbury Cider Press: Detail drawings
by Sam
Hypothetical design for an apple tree nursery and cider mill in Bloomsbury, London. Completed in collaboration with Tetsuro Nagata
Categories: Architecture • Tags: cider, drawings
Breakfast of champions #letthemeatcake
by Sam
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Instagram Image
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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.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: space syntax
Varna: Improvisational Choreography
by Sam
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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ArcAngel Dolphins
by Sam
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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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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Heathrow window detail
by Sam
Taken in Heathrow, West London, in July 2012
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Oak Artefacts
Deployable ‘installation in a box’ with reconfiguring chain of oak-wood elements and unfurling fabric pieces.
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Bike
by Sam
Taken on Hampstead Heath, North London, in January 2012
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Warhol Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Boat
by Sam
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Folded array
by Sam
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Rome: Colour Sketches
by Sam
Pastel, pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
Categories: Doodles & Scribbles • Tags: drawings, rome
Greened brickwork in suburbia
by Sam
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Alcazar gardens
by Sam
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Instagram Image
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Control in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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Valletta: Sectional Drawings
Sectional and material proposals for a new lace weaving facility within the ancient city fortifications of Valletta, Malta.
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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.
Categories: Architecture, Research • Tags: completed, inflatables, installations