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Good Times at Cambridge

Orientation week with 30 Dickson

Soccer with Flying Buttresses

Casting plaster with Sev

Drinks with Zihao and Justin

First dinner at 28 Blair with Jeska

Nightcrawler with Kim and Hannah

Oodles of Noodles with Shahal and Vojtech

F_RMlab’s Rhizome installation

Post-Film-Club Film Club

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Auras and Atmospheres, Sensorial Envelopes and Stimuli

a snippet of a piece I wrote for the upcoming publication titled "Field Guide, Responsive Architecture in the Making" from Riverside Press.

Throughout history, humans have considered spatial constructs—buildings in particular—to be analogous with the bodily form. This relationship has been primarily focused on the physical form; representation, proportion, symmetry, eurythmy [1]. Literal representation is clearly pronounced in the Caryatids–a sculpted female figure used as architectural support–found in the construction of Ancient Greek temples, most prominently recognized at the Erechtheion, in the Acropolis.[2] Modernist architect, Le Corbusier continued the values of human symmetry and physical proportion in a translated architectural form. [3] Now, in the midst of the most significant time in technological progress; the age of the quantified self,[4] has drastically modified individual self-awareness. Thusly, the phenomenological processes of bodies, interactions, and internal responses are all emerging as data. This knowledge of powerful, predominantly “invisible” systems at work within and around each individual is profoundly starting to amplify our perceptual awareness...

[1] McEwen, Indra Kagis ref. Vitruvius. “The Body Beautiful: Venus, Venustas.” Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2003. 198. Print.

[2] Pallasmaa, Juhani. “Part 2.” The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. Chichester: Wiley-Academy, 2005. 38. Print.

[3] Padovan, Richard (2 November 1999). Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture. Taylor & Francis. p. 320. ISBN 0-419-22780-6. “from Le Corbusier, The Modulor p.35: “Both the paintings and the architectural designs make use of the golden section.””

[4] Gary, Wolf. “QS & The Macroscope”. Retrieved 12 April 2014.

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Field Guide up and running at #unsilentnight2013 #cambridgeon #galt #frmlab #F_RMlab #waterlooarchitecture #f_rmlab

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We are so excited about the success of our installation at the Gladstone's first GrowOp exhibition. We've made many new friends, reconnected with old friends and are elated to see so many others who are just as excited as us about the future of technology!

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A link to yesterday's Torontoist article about GrowOp. Along with pictures of the works.

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If you’ve seen a couple of masters students laser cutting endless rolls of mylar and/or playing with arduinos, motors and a bunch of wiring in the past month, you may know F_RMlab has been busy preparing for an installation at GrowOp. GrowOp is an exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel that celebrates innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape and place across a broad range of creative practices. The event will run from April 25-28, with the opening reception happening this Friday (April 26) 7-10pm.   F_RMlab is interested in discovering new dynamic relationships between people and their surroundings. With Field Guide, we aim to construct an affective environment that provokes people’s extensive perceptual participation and total bodily involvement with the space. The project involves not only an intricate modular surface system but also an integrated digital system that allows the installation’s dynamic engagement with the participants.   F_RMlab is a graduate student initiated digital design and fabrication research collective formed to promote design based computational skills and discourse at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. With interests in digital design and physical computation, grads at F_RMlab are deeply invested in research focused on responsive environments, information processing and material systems.

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A teaser of our upcoming installation titled Field Guide at the Gladstone Hotel’s GrowOp exhibit. Curious to see more? Make sure to visit us between Apirl 25 – 28 at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. We are installing this week!

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Field Guide Sneak Peak (by frmlab)

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F_RMlab's arduinos and servos for #Gladstone #GrowOp

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crimping cables for #GrowOp with fernie and miriam on the uwsa patio. @F_RMlab #GladstoneHotel

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table of componenets @F_RMlab. One week until #GrowOp #GladstoneHotel