Reflecting Boyd -
2024
LiDAR Scan - Featherston House, Ivanhoe, Victoria.
Shown as part of 'House Show' - Walsh Street, Robin Boyd Foundation, February 2025.
'Reflecting Boyd' is an image of the iconic Featherston House, designed by Robin Boyd and captured using LiDAR scanning technology. In 2024, S-I Projects collaborated with landscape architects Clair Newton and Alex Felson, alongside the Featherston family, to document the building and its surrounding landscape using 3D infrared laser scanning.
The resulting point-cloud data serves as a resource for ongoing research into the site's relationship with the Darebin Creek floodplain and the cultural significance of water flows in this area. It also provides an accurate digital model of the Featherston House's renowned lightweight, translucent ceiling, supporting future reconstruction efforts.
'Reflecting Boyd' references a typical architectural projection, viewing the data through a reflected plan of the Featherston House ceiling. However, the image takes advantage of the more-than-human lens afforded by the machine, capturing roof structure and tree structure simultaneously. In this context, the LiDAR scanner evolves beyond a survey tool, becoming an instrument for reflecting on the spatial continuity central to Boyd’s work. It reminds us to regard the land as a reflection of the sky and the sky as a reflection of the land.
Special thanks to @robin.boyd.foundation@themedastudio@alexanderfelson
Exhibition photographs by @phamstapham
#lidar #robinboyd #architecture #digitalheritage
‘The LiDAR machine is as a tool that offers incredible hybridity – it produces a drawing, a photograph and a model all at once, creating a new kind of documentary medium.’ - Ben Waters
Powerhouse photographic commission Octagon’s Twin by S-I Projects creates a digital document of Australian architect John Andrews’ iconic Parramatta office building and continues his innovative spirit.
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Image 1: Object No. 2009/55/1-2. John Andrews Archive. Octagon Offices. Image: Eric Sierins, of Max Dupain & Associates c.1989.
Image 2: Work in Progress, S-I Projects, LiDAR scan of Octagon Building Atrium, 2023.
Image 3: Work in Progress, plan of Octagon Building, S-I Projects, 2023
Image 4: Work in Progress, S-I Projects, LiDAR scan of Octagon Building courtyard, 2023.
Image 5: Object No. 2009/55/1-2. Photograph of Octagon Building Exterior, Architectural archive, John Andrews.
Octagon's Twin - Reflected Ceiling Plan - LiDAR Scan of John Andrew's The Octagon, Sydney 2024. For @powerhousemuseum
Read more about Octagon's Twin via the bio link. Supported by the Australian Centre for Photography Fund, 2024
#archive #johnandrews #theoctagon #architecture #lidar #architecturalarchive
This year, S-I Projects has worked closely with @powerhousemuseum , supported by the Australian Centre for Photography Fund, on Octagon’s Twin. This project responds to the imminent threat of demolition facing John Andrews’ Parramatta office building, The Octagon. Drawing from the John Andrews’ archive at the Powerhouse Museum, S-I Projects utilised LiDAR technology to capture the building in 3D point-cloud data as a form of digital heritage.
Octagon’s Twin captures the building’s architectural significance and Andrews’ innovative vision through digital animations, large-format prints, and a project archive album containing the digital data. By creating a digital record of The Octagon, S-I Projects highlights its potential for adaptive reuse and underscores the importance of preserving architectural heritage in the face of change.
Read more about the project via our bio link
#JohnAndrews #LiDAR #PowerhouseMuseum #DigitalHeritage #AdaptiveReuse #S_IProjects
LiDAR mapping of existing site vegetation on Gunditjmara Country. These scans were used to inform a cultural design brief for a housing project, providing detailed visual reference for the landscape condition of native trees and vegetation on site.
#lidar #mapping #site #designbrief #architecture
Presenting today (Friday 15) at Sydney Design Week @powerhousemuseum - Octagon’s Twin - talking about our recent work with the Powerhouse Museum on the John Andrew’s Archive. From 11am. Thanks to
@astrocara and @sarahkrees
#architecturearchive #scanning #lidar #sydneydesignweek
Mapping canopy and terrain for landscape design on Taungurung Country. Aerial LiDAR scans offer in-depth insights into topography and tree cover, sectioned to highlight forest, gullies and creek networks.
Aerial LiDAR - Taungurung Land and Waters Council
Point cloud processing - S-I Projects
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#lidar #aeriallidar #landscapedesign #mapping #3Dscan #pointcloud
On exhibition in the Australian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale Di Venezia, scans from In Time With Water/ Great Swamp Regenerative Park.
LOCATION
VIC
Boon Wurrung Country
Cardinia and Koo Wee Rup
The story of the erasure of the Great Swamp is in keeping with the story of lost wetlands globally, where this vital landscape type has been systematically dumped in, drained, and built on. For Boon Wurrung people, these waterscapes were central to the rituals of gathering and sustenance, but urban and agricultural modification has left us as custodians of an altered ecosystem, degraded after two centuries of extractive processes.
Mostly locked away from human view, the visualization of leftover, isolated Great Swamp fragments, like this ‘immortal’ melaleuca mound, provides a new type of accessibility that draws attention to wetlands’ diverse qualities without disturbing their fragility. The Lidar scan is a three-dimensional model that allows viewing from any angle. To explore the difference between this and a photograph, analytical representations include sectional cuts through the model and fly-through video sequences that are evocative of a more-than-human perspective – something akin to a flying insect. Cross-sections shown in still and panning sequences, and grouped in scales of closeness, reveal the grain and texture of worlds hidden from the contemporary metropolitan gaze.
AUTHORS:
Nigel Bertram
Catherine Murphy
CONTRIBUTORS
N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs
Daniel Kotsimbos
Rutger Pasman
S-I Projects
#lidar #australianpavilion #scan #australianlandscape
Design Studies of Birrarung - Led by S-I Projects - Students from Melbourne School of Design are using GIS, LiDAR and real time technologies to produce critical mappings of areas of the Birrarung River. Image - existing river edge condition - Birrarung Marr Lower Terrace.
#lidar #mapping #birrarung #designstudy #architectureschool
Enrolments open for Unimelb students - SI LAB S1 2023, Melbourne School of Design. @msdsocial
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SI_Lab provides an in-depth introduction to digital mapping tools including 3D scanning and real-time render engines, enabling students to learn new forms of observation, reproduction, and simulation of spatial environments.
In 2023, SI_Lab will deploy these digital tools to study the Birrarung. The Birrarung River, known as the Yarra River by colonists, holds immense significance to the traditional custodians of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people, who know the surrounding area as Naarm. Naarm was once a vast wetland system made up of bogs, billabongs, and creeks, and the Birrarung was a central part of this water system. The Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people have woven the river into the stories, songs, and ceremonies of their culture for thousands of years. Students will use digital mapping and simulation tools to develop design responses that capture the historical, current, and potential future conditions of local sites along the Birrarung, reimagining urban spaces that can adapt to the unpredictability of water through its extremes of dry and wet conditions.
#digitalmapping #lidar #urbanism #digitaldesign #architectureschool
Exhibition Catalogue - presented as part of the collaborative research project baanytaageek: Great Swamp Regenerative Park at MUMA Museum. Copies available for purchase at the Museum until April 1.
With Nigel Bertram, N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs, Catherine Murphy, Rutger Pasman
Catalogue design: @stuartgeddes
#landscape #lidar #greatswamp #exhibition #catalogue
