Passive Deployable Canopy

Investigating the application of passive dynamic motion in architectural context, Passive Deployable Canopy presented design strategies to operate its movable elements with passive responses, along with a manual override from occupant’s preference.

Such passive responses come from ‘heat-motor’ using the … Read More

Consequential Spaces

Designed and developed for Fascinate 2014, a conference on digital arts at Falmouth, Cornwall, Consequential Spaces is an interactive experiential installation exploring the unintentional consequences brought about by the shipping industry. It draws inspiration from the impact of ship technology on marine life … Read More

Domestic Ecologies

“It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It … Read More

Press Play – Bulgaria

This short video is a result of a two week workshop carried out during EASA 2014 in Velitko Tarnovo Bulgaria. Participants formed three groups and were asked to derive a concept from “games & play”, propose an architectural intervention … Read More

Eye Catcher

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 … Read More

Cellular Reticulations

How does space become complex? What are the aesthetic possibilities of generating complexity out of the seemingly un-complex? Cellular Reticulations is inspired by computational research into the emergent and unpredictable nature of interaction. Even very simple systems can produce extraordinary … Read More

Flock

Through a series of digital prototypes and spatial experiments, visual perception in virtual reality and gestural interaction between occupant and virtual space have been investigated. Early research explored 3D drawing into physical space interrogating the relationship between the physical … Read More

CRAF

CRAF is a mobile agency that promotes dialog through the performance of projectile catalysts. With the contemporary breakdown of cultural expectations and expressions of dissent, CRAF investigates the methods for constructing a communication platform to encourage social exchange.

The … Read More

Furl: Soft Pneumatic Pavilion

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 … Read More

Interactive Architecture Lab Catalog 2013

Very please to be posting this today as it feels somewhat like a new start for this website that has been static now for a few years while I have built a number of quite large kinetic installation pieces and … Read More

Press Play

This short video is a result of a two week workshop carried out during EASA 2014 in Velitko Tarnovo Bulgaria. Participants formed three groups and were asked to derive a concept from “games & play”, propose an architectural intervention and … Read More

Balls

‘BALLS!’ commissioned for Arup’s Headquarters in London was created by Interactive Architecture Lab Director Ruairi Glynn and Alma-nac Collaborative Architects — winners of a competition inviting talented, emerging London architects to use interactive architecture to demonstrate the “Future of the … Read More

Scorpion – Robotics Controller

Scorpion is an open source plugin for industrial robot control within Rhino Grasshopper. Initially built to manipulate Universal Robots, we’re now intending to incorporate Kuka, ABB & other common robot platforms.

A project that has been developing in our Lab … Read More

Nybble

In 1984, philosopher John Searle asserted that there can be no such thing as “hard” artificial intelligence through the now-famous Chinese Room argument. Searle asked whether a non-Chinese speaker, locked in a room with nothing but a book with instructions for translating … Read More

A note on ‘embodied networks’

Architecture, in a traditional understanding of the term, is mainly composed of observed objects (chairs, radiators and walls – such as Rietveld’s interior pictured above) while its users are considered as observers. Technology has enabled us to introduce trivial machines … Read More

Morphs 1.0

It was a great pleasure to see William Bondin graduate with distinction for a project which examined  fascinating questions about the relationship between morphology and behaviour. Regine at We Make Money Not Art did a great interview with William which … Read More