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ScanLAB Projects: The Bartlett Summer Show 2015

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For the first time, The Bartlett School of Architecture will present its annual student showcase The Bartlett Summer Show from 27 June – 1...

For the first time, The Bartlett School of Architecture will present its annual student showcase The Bartlett Summer Show from 27 June – 11 July 2015 in its new temporary space on Hampstead Road. Created by ScanLAB, this dramatic three minute film documents the building transformation of 140 Hampstead Road in the run up to the opening of The Bartlett Summer Show 2015. ScanLAB scanned the Hampstead Road building two years ago when it was vacant and have followed its journey from being empty to being occupied, including the show spaces themselves.   Less

MArch Architectural Design at The Bartlett

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A video presenting B-Pro MArch Architectural Design (AD) at the Bartlett School of Architecture and its new Labs in Interactive Architecture...

A video presenting B-Pro MArch Architectural Design (AD) at the Bartlett School of Architecture and its new Labs in Interactive Architecture Design, led by Ruairi Glynn; Wonderlab, led by Alisa Andrasek and BiotA, led by Dr Marcos Cruz and Richard Beckett. nnThis video was produced by Lightgeist Media.   Less

Bartlett School of Architecture, Year 1, End of the Year Film 2010, UCL

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Bartlett School of Architecture, Year 1, End of the Year Film 2010, UCL  

Bartlett students design intricately woven Plexe-e furniture made from foam tubes

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Masters students from the Bartlett School of Architecture have used cement-covered foam pipes to create Gothic-style arches, columns and fur...

Masters students from the Bartlett School of Architecture have used cement-covered foam pipes to create Gothic-style arches, columns and furniture.nnRead more on Dezeen: www.dezeen.com/?p=811160nnSubscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest architecture and design movies: http://bit.ly/1tcULvh   Less

Bartlett students turn fabric into self-supporting architecture

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A group of MAarch students from the Bartlett School of Architecture have devised a method of turning felt into load-bearing structures that ...

A group of MAarch students from the Bartlett School of Architecture have devised a method of turning felt into load-bearing structures that they hope to build into an all-fabric pavilion.   Less

Making: CONTACT

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History and Explanation of the processes used in the CONTACT project.nnMsc AACnTutor Ruairi GlynnnBartlett School of Architecture  

Eye Catcher

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Using a combination of industrial robotics and high power magnets, a seemingly inconspicuous frame on a wall, magically comes to life. Throu...

Using a combination of industrial robotics and high power magnets, a seemingly inconspicuous frame on a wall, magically comes to life. Through a series of experimental films, photography and physical prototypes, the primitive effects of eye (and eye-like) stimuli have been investigated. The Eye Catcher project in its conclusion has developed a novel expressive interface where emotion recognition algorithms read audience faces and in-turn trigger the animation of a face formed of ferrofluid. n nAs people walk by, unaware of the interactive installation, out of the corner of their eye, they see an unexpected movement. Turning their head, they find an empty frame on the wall appearing to move towards them and as they stop in disbelief it positions itself to look straight at them. Suddenly from the murky black liquid sitting in the bottom of the frame, two primordial pupils rise up and seem to stare back at its viewer. A hidden pinhole camera in the frame captures the facial expressions of the onlooker and responds with a range of emotions crafted out of the subtle manipulation of motion cues. An uncanny and playful interaction is formed as expressions are exchanged.nnPrinciple Researchers: Lin Zhang, Ran XienSupervisors: Ruairi Glynn and Dr Christopher Leung with William BondinnnInteractive Architecture LabnnThe Interactive Architecture Lab is a multi-disciplinary research group and Masters Programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Interested in the Behaviour and Interaction of Things, Environments and their Inhabitants, their focus includes Kinetic Design and Robotics, Multi-Sensory Interfaces, the Internet of Things and the design of public interactive installations.nnwww.interactivearchitecture.org   Less

The Making of Eye Catcher

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Using a combination of industrial robotics and high power magnets, a seemingly inconspicuous frame on a wall, magically comes to life. Throu...

Using a combination of industrial robotics and high power magnets, a seemingly inconspicuous frame on a wall, magically comes to life. Through a series of experimental films, photography and physical prototypes, the primitive effects of eye (and eye-like) stimuli have been investigated. The Eye Catcher project in its conclusion has developed a novel expressive interface where emotion recognition algorithms read audience faces and in-turn trigger the animation of a face formed of ferrofluid. nnAs people walk by, unaware of the interactive installation, out of the corner of their eye, they see an unexpected movement. Turning their head, they find an empty frame on the wall appearing to move towards them and as they stop in disbelief it positions itself to look straight at them. Suddenly from the murky black liquid sitting in the bottom of the frame, two primordial pupils rise up and seem to stare back at its viewer. A hidden pinhole camera in the frame captures the facial expressions of the onlooker and responds with a range of emotions crafted out of the subtle manipulation of motion cues. An uncanny and playful interaction is formed as expressions are exchanged.nnPrinciple Researchers: Lin Zhang, Ran XienSupervisors: Ruairi Glynn and Dr Christopher Leung with William BondinnnThe Interactive Architecture Lab is a multi-disciplinary research group and Masters Programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Interested in the Behaviour and Interaction of Things, Environments and their Inhabitants, their focus includes Kinetic Design and Robotics, Multi-Sensory Interfaces, the Internet of Things and the design of public interactive installations.nnwww.interactivearchitecture.org   Less

Furl: Soft Pneumatic Pavilion

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The domain of soft robotics is forming as a new frontier of kinetic designing. Not only creating many new possibilities for robotics but als...

The domain of soft robotics is forming as a new frontier of kinetic designing. Not only creating many new possibilities for robotics but also in architecture. Challenging conventional design thinking about adaptive architecture the experiments outlined in this research suggest approaches to building soft responsive architecture.nn“Furl” combines Electroencephalography (EEG) with advances in soft silicone casting of “air muscles”. The introduction of soft robotics replaces the mechanical principles in interactive architecture through a biological paradigm. EEG allows sensing of human brain functioning so that our environments begin moving and responding to our very thoughts. The designed components have a wide palette of deformation patterns of inflation. Through combination of soft and hard architectural elements, “Furl” creates a new platform for a kinetic responsive architecture which can let space interact with users needs and adapt itself to environmental conditions.nnPrinciple Researchers: Francois Mangion & Bijing ZhangnSupervisors: Ruairi Glynn and Dr Christopher Leung with William BondinnnInteractive Architecture LabnThe Interactive Architecture Lab is a multi-disciplinary research group and Masters Programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Interested in the Behaviour and Interaction of Things, Environments and their Inhabitants, their focus includes Kinetic Design and Robotics, Multi-Sensory Interfaces, the Internet of Things and the design of public interactive installations. nnwww.interactivearchitecture.org   Less

Barbecana by Edward Mascarenhas turns the Barbican into a video game

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A graduate from the Bartlett School of Architecture has turned the iconic Barbican Estate in London into the setting for a proposed augment...

A graduate from the Bartlett School of Architecture has turned the iconic Barbican Estate in London into the setting for a proposed augmented reality video game.nnRead more: http://www.dezeen.com/?p=526018   Less

Stretch|PLAY

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The Stretch|PLAY prototype is developed as a part of the Social Sensory Surface research project. The research project looks to develop new ...

The Stretch|PLAY prototype is developed as a part of the Social Sensory Surface research project. The research project looks to develop new material technologies as tactile interfaces designed to confront critical challenges of learning and social engagement for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This interdisciplinary research brings together faculty, students and researchers from Architecture, Computer Science, School of Music, School of Information and Civil Engineering. Additionally, the team includes collaborators in Interaction Design, Occupational Therapy, and from the PLAY project (an early-intervention program in Ann Arbor for improving social interaction skills for children with ASD). For the initial phase of research, a five year-old girl with Autism named Ara is used as the focus of study, to develop technologies which address her specific motoric, communication and social challenges. Ara is the daughter of one of the lead primary investigators, Prof. Sean Ahlquist.nnStretch|PLAY focuses on developing environments for collaborative play through multi-sensory engagement. Collaborative play helps children with ASD form skills in communication and social interaction, following the methods established by the PLAY Project in establishing “circles of communication” or back and forth interactions. Designing for specific sensory inputs and outputs helps the child engage, to improve skills in attentiveness, exploration and regulation. This is exemplified in the Stretch|Play prototype; a project formed of a large-scale textile environment with a range of tactile, visual and auditory feedback. Various sensory outputs are designed as overlays of projections and sound maps. Certain effects are triggered by a single activation point. Other effects are triggers by pairs of activation points, where a back and forth exchange is encouraged for two participants in order to select the set of matching triggers at the same time.nnFor more information visit: http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/research/research-through-making/2015/social-sensory-surfacesnnPrimary InvestigatorsnAsst. Prof. Sean Ahlquist, ArchitecturenDr. David Chesney, Computer SciencenAssoc. Prof. Sile O'Modhrain, School of Music and School of InformationnnCollaboratorsnCathy Schuh, Occupational Therapist, Spectrum Therapy CenternOnna Solomon, Behavorial Therapist, P.L.A.Y. ProjectnCollin McRae Leix, Interaction Designer, Little Hill StudionDr. Rita Benn, Director of Education, U-M Integrative MedicinennResearchersnVanessa Argento, Taylor Boes, Evan Buetsch, Evan Cann, Sam Zhengcheng Cui, Karen Duan, Alina Granville, Peter Halquist, Patty Hazle, Molly Knight, Yu-Jen Lin, Tommy Kyung Tae Nam, Andres Marin, Henry Peters, Coco Ke Shi, Bing Sun, Yurong Wu, Jason Chao-Chung Yang, Dalton ZautkennSpecial ThanksnLiz Bartlett, Textile Designer, Knit-ItnPeter von Buelow, Structural Engineer, University of MichigannMary Burke, Director, Spectrum Therapy CenternJoshua Plavnick, assistant professor of special education, Michigan State UniversitynTabitha Wisecup, Assistant Director, Spectrum Therapy CenternnThis research was funded by the Research Through Making Grant from the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.   Less

Social Sensory Surfaces Research Project

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SOCIAL SENSORY SURFACESnPhysical Computing, Tactile (Textile) Interfaces and Collaborative Tools for Children with Autism Spectrum Disordern...

SOCIAL SENSORY SURFACESnPhysical Computing, Tactile (Textile) Interfaces and Collaborative Tools for Children with Autism Spectrum DisordernnThis research looks to develop new material technologies as tactile interfaces designed to confront critical challenges of learning and social engagement for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This interdisciplinary research brings together faculty, students and researchers from Architecture, Computer Science, School of Music, School of Information and Civil Engineering. Additionally, the team includes collaborators in Interaction Design, Occupational Therapy, and from the PLAY project (an early-intervention program in Ann Arbor for improving social interaction skills for children with ASD). The project connects expertise and technology in textile structures and CNC knitting, programming of gestural and tactile input devices, and design of haptic and visual interfaces for enhanced musical expression. With textiles, the tactile interface is expanded in scale, from wearables to environments and varied in types of input for human-computer interactions. The textiles are tailored for gradations of touch and pressure sensitive input from large sweeping gestures to fine touch, calibrated to prompt a wide variety of responses. For the initial phase of research, a five year-old girl with Autism named Ara is used as the focus of study, to develop technologies which address her specific motoric, communication and social challenges. Ara is the daughter of one of the lead primary investigators, Prof. Sean Ahlquist.nnFor more information visit: http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/research/research-through-making/2015/social-sensory-surfacesnnPrimary InvestigatorsnAsst. Prof. Sean Ahlquist, ArchitecturenDr. David Chesney, Computer SciencenAssoc. Prof. Sile O'Modhrain, School of Music and School of InformationnnCollaboratorsnCathy Schuh, Occupational Therapist, Spectrum Therapy CenternOnna Solomon, Behavorial Therapist, P.L.A.Y. ProjectnCollin McRae Leix, Interaction Designer, Little Hill StudionDr. Rita Benn, Director of Education, U-M Integrative MedicinennResearchersnVanessa Argento, Taylor Boes, Evan Buetsch, Evan Cann, Sam Zhengcheng Cui, Karen Duan, Alina Granville, Peter Halquist, Patty Hazle, Molly Knight, Yu-Jen Lin, Tommy Kyung Tae Nam, Andres Marin, Henry Peters, Coco Ke Shi, Bing Sun, Yurong Wu, Jason Chao-Chung Yang, Dalton ZautkennSpecial ThanksnLiz Bartlett, Textile Designer, Knit-ItnPeter von Buelow, Structural Engineer, University of MichigannMary Burke, Director, Spectrum Therapy CenternJoshua Plavnick, assistant professor of special education, Michigan State UniversitynTabitha Wisecup, Assistant Director, Spectrum Therapy CenternnThis research was funded by the Research Through Making Grant from the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.   Less

MORPHS 2.0 - First walk in the park

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On going research at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL into the design of Mobile Reconfigurable Polyhedra (Morphs)  

Hortum machina, B

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Harnessing the collective intelligence of plant behaviour, the reEarth project explores new forms of bio-cooperative interaction between peo...

Harnessing the collective intelligence of plant behaviour, the reEarth project explores new forms of bio-cooperative interaction between people and nature, within the built environment. While plants lack a nervous system, they can, much like animals, become electro-chemically stimulated by their surrounding environment. Through the study of plant electro-physiology, we have wired their primitive ‘intelligence’ into the control-loop of an autonomous robotic ecosystem. Half garden, half machine – a new cybernetic lifeform we’ve named Hortum machina, B.nnEchoing the architecture of Buckminster Fuller, the geodesic sphere, is both exoskeleton and ecological iconography. Its core of twelve garden modules, each carrying native British species on outwardly-extending linear actuators allow the structure to become mobile by shifting its centre-of-gravity. Electro-physiological sensing of the state of individual plants collectively and democratically controls decision-making of the orientation of the structure and its mobility. In the near future context of driverless cars, autonomous flying vehicles, and seemingly endless other forms of intelligent robotics co-habiting our built environment. Hortum machina, B is a speculative urban cyber-gardener.nnThe Interactive Architecture Lab is a multi-disciplinary research group at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL). Research revolves around the Behaviour and Interaction of Things, Environments and their Inhabitants. The reEarth Project is led by William Victor Camilleri & Danilo Sampaio, and supervised by Ruairi Glynn. Parametric Design and Fabrication was supported by William Bondin, Francois Mangion and Thomas Powell.nnwww.interactivearchitecture.org   Less

The making of Hortum machina, B

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Harnessing the collective intelligence of plant behaviour, the reEarth project explores new forms of bio-cooperative interaction between peo...

Harnessing the collective intelligence of plant behaviour, the reEarth project explores new forms of bio-cooperative interaction between people and nature, within the built environment. While plants lack a nervous system, they can, much like animals, become electro-chemically stimulated by their surrounding environment. Through the study of plant electro-physiology, we have wired their primitive ‘intelligence’ into the control-loop of an autonomous robotic ecosystem. Half garden, half machine – a new cybernetic lifeform we’ve named Hortum machina, B.nEchoing the architecture of Buckminster Fuller, the geodesic sphere, is both exoskeleton and ecological iconography. Its core of twelve garden modules, each carrying native British species on outwardly-extending linear actuators allow the structure to become mobile by shifting its centre-of-gravity. Electro-physiological sensing of the state of individual plants collectively and democratically controls decision-making of the orientation of the structure and its mobility. In the near future context of driverless cars, autonomous flying vehicles, and seemingly endless other forms of intelligent robotics co-habiting our built environment. Hortum machina, B is a speculative urban cyber-gardener.nnThe Interactive Architecture Lab is a multi-disciplinary research group at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL). Research revolves around the Behaviour and Interaction of Things, Environments and their Inhabitants. The reEarth Project is led by William Victor Camilleri & Danilo Sampaio, and supervised by Ruairi Glynn. Parametric Design and Fabrication was supported by William Bondin, Francois Mangion and Thomas Powell.nnwww.interactivearchitecture.org   Less

Fabricating Performance

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www.interactivearchitecture.orgnnPerformance is presented as a process of fabrication. Reciprocally, fabrication is presented as a process o...

www.interactivearchitecture.orgnnPerformance is presented as a process of fabrication. Reciprocally, fabrication is presented as a process of performance. A circularity of human body-gesture and computer machine-gesture leads to the construction of notational spatial artefacts. Space is constructed through the transforming conditions of dance, and performance is constructed through the transforming conditions of architecture.nnThe project is a spatially interactive design system. Driven by the motivation of a participating performer/designer, body movement is tracked, analysed and translated into tool paths for fabrication by a robotic armature and an industrial CNC pipe bending machine. Discrete construction elements are fabricated in response to the dancer/designers performance.nnThe generative cycle of construction encourages bodily interaction and the aggregation of a form of spatial notion that described repetition, rhythm and pattern. ’Fabricating Performance’ qualifies movement in space and raises questions of how these qualitative motion segments can be articulated in a quantitatively physical manner.   Less

PolyEyes 2.0 - A Polymelia Project

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The Polymelia Project considers the human body as an assemblage; a collection of heterogeneous components, a material-informational entity w...

The Polymelia Project considers the human body as an assemblage; a collection of heterogeneous components, a material-informational entity whose boundaries undergo continuous construction and reconstruction. We think of the body as the original prosthesis we all learn to manipulate, so that any replacement or extension becomes part of a continuing process of upgrading the human entity. The Polymelia Suit (PolyEyes, PolyLimbs, Exoskeleton, Sensing Suit) suggests a new communication language for the future of prosthesis and of humanity.nn“You are alone in the room, except for two Raspberry Pi Camera Module spinning in the dim light. You use PolyEyes (aka Hammerhead Vision System) and through the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, you communicate with some other entities in another room, whom you cannot see. Relying solely on the Exo-skeletical Suit Controller, you must decide whether to share or receive stimuli. One of the entities wants to share its own visual field. The other entity wants to send you signals from its sensing body. He/she/it will reproduce through the PolyLimbs the body movement of the other entity. Your job is to explore alternative ways for communicating that distinguish your current performance from an embodied augmented reality.”   Less

Megalomania by Jonathan Gales

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This movie by Jonathan Gales of architectural animation studio Factory Fifteen imagines the whole of London as a construction site, caught i...

This movie by Jonathan Gales of architectural animation studio Factory Fifteen imagines the whole of London as a construction site, caught in a state of change that could mean dramatic decay or intensive development. Buildings on every street appear behind layers of dust and scaffolding, while familiar structures such as the London Eye provide support for clusters of makeshift homes.nnGales formed Factory Fifteen with fellow Bartlett School of Architecture classmates Paul Nicholls and Kibwe Tavares when they graduated last year.nnSee all our movies at www.dezeenscreen.com   Less

The Golden Age by Paul Nicholls

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This film by Paul Nicholls of architectural imagery studio www.factoryfifteen.com was awarded best film at the CG Architectural 3D Awards 20...

This film by Paul Nicholls of architectural imagery studio www.factoryfifteen.com was awarded best film at the CG Architectural 3D Awards 2011 in the architectural film/animation category. nnThe Simulation is the first film in a two-part series called The Golden Age, which Nicholls made while studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture.nnSee all our movies on www.dezeenscreen.com   Less

Adaptive Spaceframe

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Research carried out at The Bartlett School of Architecture during the M.Arch GAD programme [2012-2013]. nnThe system was developed in colla...

Research carried out at The Bartlett School of Architecture during the M.Arch GAD programme [2012-2013]. nnThe system was developed in collaboration with Paul Harkin of www.formchangingstructures.com   Less