Evil George - Progress

George Bush Model - With Background.

George Bush Model - Reconstructed: Octree Depth 6

George Bush Model - Reconstructed: Octree Depth 8

George Bush Model - Background Deleted Octree Depth 9

George Bush MAX Render - watertight

Evil George

George Bush - From Russells office

93% Synthy

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Error Shots: A previous attempt to shoot an object under the same lighting condition yielded only 27% synthy.  The guess was the lack of color variation in the model taken, and the incompleteness of a 360o shoot through of the object. 

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Postscript: Another attempt was taken on another more detailed and more color varied object. However, the model only yielded a 59% synthyness. it was with daylight that was streamed in from one direction (from the window). The contrast between highly illuminated and dimmed down photograhs separated the synths, even when the photos were level corrected in Photoshop.

PhotoSynth Dos:

- choose object with more detail and panorama (+50% synthy)
- change the color levels in photoshop before synthing (+6% synthy)

PhotoSynth Donts:

- take object in a variable light condition (-25% synthy, ie the overshadowed face will not match)

PHOTOGAMMERTY: Experiment 1 - Photosynth

My interest in digital technologies has always been utilizing social media to mine for bottom-up information. Here is a short proposal for what Photosynth can do when you combine it with social media.

1. Extract "UNSW Library" Images from Flickr (Yahoo! Pipes)

2. Download RSS

3. Import Photos into Photosynth - We cannot get a full reconstruction of the whole building based solely on photos in Flickr alone, this collection is only 17% synthy. However we can determine that one angle or one facade is more photogenic than the other angles of this building, based on the density alone.

4. Identified that this facade is collectively the most potogenic for 'UNSW Library'.

Link to the Yahoo! Pipe

REDIWork

Finally, the whole years work on 'The In-Visible Envelope' has come down to this. Part Business Plan, part Infrastructure, part Web2.0, part Mechanical. Something i call the REDIWork. Remote Distributed Workplace System.

Click on the image below to be redirected to the temporary website.

Renderings

One last post before the finale

The Precedents

RFID Sorting Systems

Go-Get Carshare




Augmented Reality, Teleconferencing

The Manifest


The Envelope - Current Vacant Office Spaces

The Infrastructure - 24hr Remote Infrastructure (Lockers for 4000 people, Data Storage for 4000 people, Security, IT, Concierge, GPS Bicycle and Segway, Central Receptionist/Librarian, Upgrades to Existing Library on site).

The Office Space - To User's Requirements.

Help needed...

Does anyone know how to create a geometry from 3d polylines or contours in 3dsMax or Autocad, or do the same with the massing tool in Revit?

Library Experiments

The Distributed Office

Here is the interim proposal, along with the synopsis ripped off from the flash file. Patience with the flash file it takes a while to load.

Planning

To design a still tower for a society of mobile knowledge workers is redundant. A static, mono-located office space designed for said workers to perform his/her task is defunct considering the anywhere/anytime and ‘anyplace’ potentials that wireless mobility affords.

Is a new highrise office development required? A run by Yahoo! Pipes against market sources such as realcommercial.com.au and commercialrealestate.com.au reveals exact locations and rentable areas in Parramatta. Add those disparate envelopes up and you will find more vacant spaces than those designed for the Parramatta Masterplan. 

In terms of the working environment, no new forms, materials, etc are required, simply upgrades and infrastructure additions. In this case, what are the still forms of space that is required in this new workspace system? Data Farms, Processor Farms, Central Receptionist Areas, Lockers, in short: remote infrastructure. 

Field

Now that there is no top-down architectural hierarchy and order where there is bottom-up micro-coordination, how do you determine a space-syntax to the scheme? 

Geographic features are fed into Yahoo Pipes and measured against end user ratings from bottom up sources such as Truelocal.com. A restaurant located along a nicely designed avenue that is close to public transport scores lightly compared to the strip of restaurants further north of Church Street in which the locals dub “Little Paris”. Fields of influence i.e. likely scope of travel an average user would like to spend travelling to from his/her workplace are extrapolated and densified against the end user ratings. 

Routine

We have established that the relationship between the spaces and external features is one based on something similar to end user ratings and leeways, rather than top-down principles of order, form, scale etc. 

We could now reverse engineer these score to predict likely usages of the vacant building floors, and in turn optimise the organisation of said spaces. For example, a wanderer who is mindset on getting a cup of coffee before work will “given the opportunity” likely end up in a space close to the coffee shop if there is no preconception on where he/she is going to work at. Similarly, A client coming into town requesting a face-to-face meeting will likely be held in a office space close to his/her hotel and near parking facilities.

Remote

A plethora of infrastructure upgrades is likely to be expected to sustain The Distributed Office. To effectively cater for the wireless, anytime/anywhere knowledge work society we will need to implement rigorous plug and play capabilities in the new teleoffices, including integrated access (via swipe card, smartphones etc), hardware docking stations,  shared print facilities and teleconferencing.

Ironically, the only fixed, built function is that relating to the storage of vast data servers and processors located in the refurbished library. Here, traditional office services can integrate and operate in a more efficient manner. A librarian can adopt his/her expertise in indexing and archiving to store all hard-goods and information of multiple peoples and corporations. A centralised receptionist centre can operate like an IT support service, directing all incoming calls, emails, people etc to their respective locations. With this comes an invigorated role of the librarian and the receptionist; once considered as a low assistant based profession can now be redefined as an all-seeing archiver/indexer and a mover/shaker. Premium customers can opt for a concierge service where goods are brought directly to their place. However, the new consolidation entails drawbacks; longer working hours for library staff, and the library itself is expected to operate 24-hours.   

     

Generally, nothing significant needs to be done to the existing vacant lots; besides minor infrastructure upgrades as mentioned.

Hub

Replacing hard information with soft information in the context of a library entails interesting dualities. Books are now seen as technology that behaves in replication and redundancy, one collection stacked upon each other, one edition after another. Social Media and bottom-up information however has the characteristics of renewal and reassembly, updating on the click of the refresh button. While books are collections of many individual objects of single strings of information, digital and social media are its binary opposite; one collection – continually refreshed information.  The building lives in a refreshed state, responding to information, and also to infrastructural use (the coming and going of bikes, the fluctuations in network and computer usage, the amount of hard content stored and retrieved etc). 

  

Creative Futures: Networks + Clusters

Flashback to last semesters trip to one of the creative Sydney talks where people have been tracking the movements of Sydneys design community (literally) though GPS time lapse mapping. The interesting thing from the exercise they did was to show how the office was not just one place you visit everyday; in fact these team workers stop at multiple locations, crossing different suburbs and taking multiple long distance trips throughout the whole day.

Anywho, heres the link to the actual GPS overlay http://gpscreate.com/catch_and_release/

As a side note ive just discovered that the idea of a distributed office have been implemented in the past, and packaged into something Go-Get style called a "Telework Center"