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LiDAR Scan of London - Textured

LiDAR Scan of London - Textured from digitalurban on Vimeo.

London Flooding

Mapping the LIDAR landscape

Mapping the LIDAR landscape
by Matthew Shaw

How can the platform hover in the sky?

Tesla Coil

Illustration about drowned London in the future

All the way down the creek, perched in the windows of the office blocks and department stores, the iguanas watched them go past, their hard frozen heads jerking stiffly… Without the reptiles, the lagoons and the creeks of office blocks half-submerged in the immense heat would have had a strange dream-like beauty, but the iguanas and basilisks brought the fantasy down to earth. As their seats in the one-time board-rooms indicated, the reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life.

J.G. Ballard. The Drowned World (1962).

Archigram at the ICA - 9: on Stage; Mike Webb

LIDAR

LiDAR Scan of London from digitalurban on Vimeo.

Spitfire

Canticles For Mike

7. ST PAUL'S AND THE SPITFIRE

certain persistent originating images emerge over and over. St paul's (not St Peter's), the Spitfire (not the Hurricane), the London Bus (the old Routemaster, not its boxy successor). To be sure, these are objects united in their Englishness, but that's not so central. More crucial is the studied perfection of their compound curvature. Webb recalls a very early fascination with Wren's resolution of the intersection of vaults, the way in which the almost weird reconciling shapes deform attempts at penetration. Webb's incision in the Henley temple dome is a related act, a simple auguring which sets an incredible sequence of events in motion, which opens up transformations of matter, space, and light. Those fascinating British machines address paradigms of perfection as well as the idea of motion and the delights of a cowled mechanism. But clearly it's the curves which attract. Webb restores to architecture a difficulty of surface, producing an ineffability of light.

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EXQUISTE CORPSE
Writing on buildings
Michael Sorkin
Printed in USA by Courier Companies Inc.

Vision Machine

Kiesler's Vision Machine is the result of intense studies on the viewers' processes of perception and powers of imagination, research he undertook since his 1937 Laboratory for Design Correlation. Kiesler plans Vision Machine as an audio-visual object to demonstrate and explain the process of perception. In a report to the Dean of Architecture in 1939, he writes:

Theoretical study on aesthetics, with special reference to the human eye as medium of perception. […] Design of a machine for practical demonstration of optical perception, showing the correlative forces of vision.
From: Frederick Kiesler, Report on the Laboratory for Design Correlation, typescript 1939.

Light and Gravity

"Without light, space does not exist. Natural light brings plastic forms to life, shapes the surface of materials, controls and barances geomatiroc lines. The space generated by light is the soul of the act of architecture."

Light and Gravity - Mario Botta

Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.

ARK from grzegorz jonkajtys on Vimeo.