outside:in

May 31, 2008 – 12:33 am
Urban environments provide a broad spectrum of opportunities to conceptualize the role of screens or projections as methods to sculpt or define spatial relationships. Outside:In proposes to use the concept of urban screens to highlight the relationship between vertical levels within the city fabric. The relationship between underground spaces such as metros and infrastructure corridors and the above ground surfaces is often tenuous. Access between each space is often through single points; stairways, escalators, or elevators and therefore disconnected both perceptually and physically. Outside:In creates a new relationship between separate urban strate through the urban landscape above and a projected landscape below. The project questions the typical relationship between urbanity and landscape. The proposal exaggerates the object quality of the urban landscape by placing vegetation within a display case and monitoring it through video surveillance. The exhibitB

Cloud

February 5, 2008 – 6:29 am
An interesting installtion entitled Cloud by the design firm Troika, commissioned for the British Airways terminal at Heathrow Airport, London. The surface of sculpture uses 'flip-dots' that are individual addressable by proprietary software. More info about the software can be found at Pixel Sumo.

scale and resolution

February 2, 2008 – 6:04 am
A lot of thought has been circulating regarding scale and resolution in regards to perception, sensing, and visualization. Allowing an objects scale to be manipulated and projected re-contextualizes the object... The issue comes up that the projection itself can create the re-contextualization but developing a framework that keeps the object relevant and the space fragmented is interesting.

Reading Space

January 12, 2008 – 6:31 am
The Sensing the Landscape class in the fall semester produced such great amounts of thought regarding what elements are unique in sensored landscape spaces. There are fundamental pieces that are necessary to explore further in regards to scale, perception, and emergence.

Around View Monitor

October 13, 2007 – 5:52 am
Video compositing technology put to use for a pragmatic in dash monitor system. Interesting re-appropriation of realtime information/data.

sensed perception

October 1, 2007 – 6:48 pm
Several new projects underway that are extensions of work from sensing the landscape and representation workflows. Looking at digital representation it is interesting to note the expression of the design drawings as product of their medium. There are a few things to really express within this framework ... image/design context, cut and paste collage, and workflow. This directly influences our perception of designed space (or sadly negates it) through issues of scale, embodiment, and form. Sensing requires something much easier and fun ... a mini project/prototype. coming soon...

Change of Venues

May 28, 2007 – 10:20 pm
The semester has ended and the reactscape blog hosted at wordpress has been moved to my own host. You can still access the old blog at reactscape.wordpress.com but new updates will be here.

Jersey {Battery?}

March 14, 2007 – 12:30 am
Interesting article in Metropolis, many of you may have seen this. The incorporation of technologies into existing infrastructure is an interesting way to approach a site like the Perkins Underpass. Any thoughts on other possibilities that may allow for multiple functions from our infrastructure

The Digital Mile

January 25, 2007 – 11:09 am
Worth taking a look at...

Dan Roosegarde

January 25, 2007 – 10:58 am
It is interesting to find the results of sculptors creating convincing and interesting landscape that provokes context sensitivity which is user based. As landscape architects we strive to design landscapes that have direct connections to relevant ecological systems. In Roosegarde sculptures it is the user is the nascent system that the landscape bends and responds to. Dan Roosegarde Homepage