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Tetsuro graduated from the Bartlett, UCL in 2009, and has carried out related research projects since, whilst working as an architectural assistant in a practice in Dalston. He enjoys hearing people’s thoughts on his work. The following pieces were exhibited at TAKTAL at TESTBED1, London 21.05.11. You can see further examples of his work here.

Peter Pan’s Shadow 2 – Interactive Projection

“I wasn’t crying about mothers,” he said rather indignantly.
“I was crying because I can’t get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn’t crying.”
“It has come off?”
“Yes.”

Then Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled, and she was frightfully sorry for Peter. “How awful!” she said, but she could not help smiling when she saw that he had been trying to stick it on with soap. How exactly like a boy.

De Selby’s Parallel Mirrors – Interactive Installation

In the book The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien, a philosopher describes the arrangement of parallel mirrors. His madcap theory goes that, if you get a couple of mirrors, the cleanest and most reflective you can find, then as you look towards the end of the reflected concentric mirrors, you should be able to see yourself younger – because light takes time to travel when bouncing off the mirrors!

Hoberman Associates  specialize in transformable design — the development of products, structures, and environments that change their size and shape. Website here.

Apaptive Fritting
Harvard School of Design, 2009

‘Built on the practice of standard fritting with the addition of real-time dynamic motion via motorized control. While conventional fritting relies on a fixed pattern, Adaptive Fritting can control its transparency and modulate between opaque and transparent states. This performance is achieved by shifting a series of fritted glass layers so that the graphic pattern alternately aligns and diverges.

The installation at Gund Hall consists of six motorized panels comprising a 24-foot by 4-foot window, housed within a curved wall. These panels are programmed to form a dynamic field where light transmission, views, and enclosure continuously adapt and change. As the panels transform, the visual effect is of sparse dots blossoming into an opaque surface’.

Expanding Sphere

Expanding Geodesic Dome

Geotaggers World Atlas
May 2010

“I took photo locations from the Flickr and Picasa search APIs. The base maps that they are plotted on top of are from OpenStreetMap. I wrote some perl scripts to identify and plot the clusters of locations. The scripts generate PostScript which I then converted to JPEGs using Ghostscript.

The maps are ordered by the number of pictures taken in the central cluster of each one. The central cluster of each map is not necessarily in the center of each image, because the image bounds are chosen to include as many geotagged locations as possible near the central cluster. All the maps are to the same scale (a square measuring 15 miles on each side), chosen to be just large enough for the central New York cluster to fit. The photo locations come from the public Flickr and Picasa search APIs”.

I came across this print a while back and thought it was immense.

His website is here

This is a Japanese architecture practice established by Makoto Tanijiri, professor at Anabuki Design College.I really liked these images of a hair salon the did in Hiroshima. It doesnt seem like a hair salon, yet does at the same time.

Website is here

‘Complex city’

Soeul, 2008

He describes this project as  ”an exploration to find a concealed aesthetic by using the pattern formed by the roads of the city which have been growing and evolving randomly through time, thus composing the complex configuration we experience today.
I perceive the city’s patterns as living creatures that I recompose to form an urban image.”

Lee Jang