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Bartlett Environmental Design Prize 2015: 'Code of Conflict: Bathing in Light' by Gary Edwards
The winner of Bartlett Environmental Design Prize 2015 is 'Code of Conflict: Bathing in Light': Gary Edwards.
Members of the Max Fordham team have been tutoring at UCL Bartlett School of Architecture for many years. We’ve established a great relationship with the University over that time and we formally recognised that relationship in 2013 by sponsoring an award at the annual student Summer Show.
The Max Fordham Environmental Design Prize is given to the 5th-year design project that demonstrates the greatest level of ambition, originality, technical innovation and philosophical rigour in the field of environmental design and sustainability.
The prize consists of £1,000 to help the student cover project-related expenses. In addition, they present their project to our whole practice and receive ideas from our engineers and sustainability consultants to help them further develop the environmental premise of their project.
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A future of customising your environment through choreographed robotics seems unimaginable. But Gary Edwards has imagined such a thing. Through the investigation of kinetic architecture, his research softens digital and physical space in the setting of bathing and the bathroom.
His project explores various factors that inspire the planned motion, from the passing of the sun to fleeting desire and individual habits. He resolves that this can all be achieved in architecture using timeline based animation software, where there is no hierarchy between the occupant and architecture.
Through diverse techniques of high speed filming and lidar scanning (the process of laser scanning buildings and rock formations to create a 3D model), both the simulated world and physical world are joined together.
You can view Gary's video on his youtube channel.
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Bathing in Light
©Gary Edwards
The hacker controls and tailors his environment through the typing of his fingers. His ultimate challenge is to hack the act of bathing, the last bastion of the disobedient physical world.
©Gary Edwards
