UCA: Inflatables Workshop
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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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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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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 Davis, M. (1999), ‘Assault on German Village’, in Der Spiegel: Berlin, Ger.
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Taken in St Valerie, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Wistman’s Wood is a scrap of surviving ancient woodland that you can find near Two Bridges, Dartmoor. It is hidden 30 minutes walk up a steep sided valley. The trees are oaks, twisted and miniaturised by the rocky clitter upon which they have slowly grown. The tallest is seven metres high. [click & drag to pan] Similar woodland used to cover most of the moor and the UK, but beginning in the Neolithic Period, man’s activities have cleared the entire […]
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Taken in Oxford, in February 2012
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Taken in Hyde Park, Central London, in August 2012
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Workshop output from July 2012; a first attempt at throwing stoneware.
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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 Zhou, X. (2012) Embodiment and Hybrid Architecture, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Taken in a fjord in Norway in July 2012
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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.
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Download pdf Turing, A. (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Mind 49:London, UK pp.433-460.
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A series of digitally coded collages produced for Surface Architects for exhibition in Hull, North East England. Each image explores different memories and vectoral layerings of the city by layering specific letters and fonts in an additive boolean process. The ‘designer’ acts as editor, selecting or rejecting different combinative forms in a dialogue with the running coding algorithm to produce a collaborative outcome.
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Deployable ‘installation in a box’ with reconfiguring chain of oak-wood elements and unfurling fabric pieces.
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Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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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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Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (1979) Cybernetics of Cybernetics, Lecture, University of Illinois:Alabama, US
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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 […]
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Hanging installation based on a series of porcelain hemispheres.
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Life shots from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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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 […]
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Download pdf Qingling, T. (2013) Mediated Reality In Bearable Prosthesis, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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Series of mappings of key sites, contextual influences and opportunities within the ancient port-city of Valletta, Malta.
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Taken near Battle, Kent, in August 2011
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Download pdf Khan, O. and Beesley, P. (2009), ‘Responsive Architecture/Performing Instruments’, in Khan, O. Scholz, T. and Shepard, M. (eds.) Situated Technologies Pamphlets 4. The Architectural League of New York: New York, US.
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Taken in Brighton, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in May 2012
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Record and output from engagement sessions held with Hull Libraries service Librarians and staff in April and May 2012. The film takes the output of workshop discussions and brings them into an emergent briefing focus for future library interventions. Completed with Surface Architects.
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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A matrix of black and white chevrons which displays an inherent ability to iteratively resolve itself into a state of lower entropy. This process continues until a condition of equilibrium is established across the grid; from this point pattern iterations of the solution develop in perpetuity.
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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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