Sean Ow

Author: Sean Ow @seanowjc @sojc.visuals Title: Part II - Generative Morphologies, An Architecture Assemblage for Additive Decay (Building Project) Description: “Amid escalating environmental precarity, can architecture continue to uphold a fixed model of authorship, or should it yield to a more contingent, co-authored process – one shaped through ongoing dialogue between human and non-human agencies, between acts of construction and forces of erosion, between deliberate intent and emergent chance? This thesis unfolds in two interrelated investigations that explore architecture as a medium of registration – one that draws from the latent ecologies of time, climate, and material degradation. Working sequentially across the scales of instrument and building, the project begins with an analog apparatus sited in Epping Forest, designed to register the ephemeral spatiality of a wind fetch through kinetic drawing and light inscription. From this poetic act of calibration, the research transitions into a building proposal that embraces decay as a generative process. Situated at the urban-rural threshold, the architecture is conceived as a participant in a wider ecological theatre – its form, skin, and assembly continuously shaped by weather, occupation, and the slow passage of time. Together, the two parts propose an alternative mode of architectural production, one that engages uncertainty as a condition for design and acknowledges architecture as both witness to, and agent within, an ecological continuum.” Professors: Stefan Lengen @stefanlengen , Ben Spong @benspong School: The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London bartlettarchucl @thebartlettucl

Author: Sean Ow @seanowjc @sojc.visuals Title: Part I -Anemographic Reciprocities, Perpetuating the Fetch (Envirographic Apparatus) Description: “Amid escalating environmental precarity, can architecture continue to uphold a fixed model of authorship, or should it yield to a more contingent, co-authored process – one shaped through ongoing dialogue between human and non-human agencies, between acts of construction and forces of erosion, between deliberate intent and emergent chance? This thesis unfolds in two interrelated investigations that explore architecture as a medium of registration – one that draws from the latent ecologies of time, climate, and material degradation. Working sequentially across the scales of instrument and building, the project begins with an analog apparatus sited in Epping Forest, designed to register the ephemeral spatiality of a wind fetch through kinetic drawing and light inscription. From this poetic act of calibration, the research transitions into a building proposal that embraces decay as a generative process. Situated at the urban-rural threshold, the architecture is conceived as a participant in a wider ecological theatre – its form, skin, and assembly continuously shaped by weather, occupation, and the slow passage of time. Together, the two parts propose an alternative mode of architectural production, one that engages uncertainty as a condition for design and acknowledges architecture as both witness to, and agent within, an ecological continuum.” Professors: Stefan Lengen @stefanlengen , Ben Spong @benspong School: The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London bartlettarchucl @thebartlettucl

Up Close, At A Distance Living Single, Living Together Harvard University Graduate School of Design Fall 2024, Core I Project 1 Instructor: Jenny French How do we celebrate the habitual idiosyncrasies of two remote bodies? “Up Close, At A Distance” questions the solitary disposition of a duplex and therein seek agency within the parti wall as a third space for unification. These walls serve as an extension of the inhabitants’ rituals - “an architecture that recognises passion, carnality, and sociality” in Evans’s words, its purposive incisions (apertures) attempting to re-align the displaced sightlines of a conventional duplex typology, creating fleeting opportunities for incidental encounters.

UG6 Bartlett Summer Show 2024 The Bartlett School of Architecture Instructors: @stefanlengen @benspong Catalog of images showcasing the built works for UG6’s Bartlett Summer Show exhibition space. Y2: Sora Aoki Jacob Dumon Yang Huang (Mcqueen) Min Huang (Kristine) Ryan Shao Y3: Thomas Butterworth Diego Carreras Pacharamon Danwachira (Myla) Maria Gasparinatou Rhiannon Howes Aryan Kaul Laura Noble Sean Ow Eden Robertson Shuheng Wang Zhi Qi Wu (Tina) Peiyan Zou #thebartlett #thebartlettschoolofarchitecture #architecture #bsa #ucl #architectureundergraduate #riba #bartlettsummershow #design #project #visualisation #architecture #archilovers #architecturedesign #architecturestudent #studio #work #models #craft #technology #digital #fabrication

Generative Morphologies, An Architecture Assemblage for Additive Decay The Bartlett School of Architecture UG6 Y3P3 Instructors: @stefanlengen @benspong The building model is conceived as a kit-of-parts, corresponding to the phased methodology of its peri-urbanisation strategy. #thebartlett #thebartlettschoolofarchitecture #architecture #bsa #ucl #architectureundergraduate #riba #bartlettsummershow #design #project #visualisation #architecture #archilovers #architecturedesign #architecturestudent #studio #work #models #craft #technology #digital #fabrication

Generative Morphologies, An Architecture Assemblage for Additive Decay The Bartlett School of Architecture UG6 Y3P3 Instructors: @stefanlengen @benspong Operating along the urban fringes of Central London, the architecture situates itself as part of a peri-urbanisation masterplan across Epping Forest. It takes the form of a research and fabrication centre that seeks to remediate the site whilst synthesising hyperlocal building practices with digital fabrication techniques to produce an assemblage of building components for the construction of the masterplan. Conceived with a phased methodology that corresponds to the periodic speculations of flood encroachment, the building eventuates as an urban park, amalgamating as an extension of its ecological locality. #thebartlett #thebartlettschoolofarchitecture #architecture #bsa #ucl #architectureundergraduate #riba #bartlettsummershow #design #project #visualisation #render #unrealengine #architecture #archilovers #architecturedesign #architecturestudent #studio #work

Generative Morphologies, An Architecture Assemblage for Additive Decay The Bartlett School of Architecture UG6 Y3P3 Instructors: @stefanlengen @benspong Within the currency of our climate crisis, building materials have since been imbued with productive ecological tendencies that resist weather anomalies and habitat degradation. It seems that these inclinations are steering the sustainability conundrums of current architectural discourse, however, circumventing from these conversations and the pursuit for material utopias, could there be a way for architecture to humanise these ‘erosive’ dialectics through the ephemerality of time, weather, and habitation? The technical dissertation for this project sets out to investigate the narrative of additive decay, synthesising hyperlocal building practices with digital fabrication techniques to produce an assemblage of building components for the construction of a peri-urban masterplan. A range of corkcrete and rammed earth material compositions are studied and tested for durability through a taxonomic process of sandblasting and acid corrosion experiments. Under accelerated stress conditions, their intrinsic speed of degradation is determined which contributed to a palette of material samples for the proposition. #thebartlett #thebartlettschoolofarchitecture #architecture #bsa #ucl #architectureundergraduate #riba #bartlettsummershow #design #project #visualisation #render #unrealengine #architecture #archilovers #architecturedesign #architecturestudent #studio #work #models #craft #technology #digital #fabrication

Generative Morphologies, An Architecture Assemblage for Additive Decay The Bartlett School of Architecture UG6 Y3P3 Instructors: @stefanlengen @benspong Inspired by the design practice of ruination - an ode to the late Professor Jonathan Hill, the building stands as a timekeeper of the forest which acknowledges the ‘coproduction of multiple authors, whether human, non-human or atmospheric’ where the registration of calibrated and arbitrary moments of inhabitation and weathering are negotiated. A (building) skin marked by the echoes of its ‘cached objects’, the narrative of generative erosion is communicated through both occupation and climate - its nuances prompted and choreographed by the researcher’s rituals of rest and work. #thebartlett #thebartlettschoolofarchitecture #architecture #bsa #ucl #architectureundergraduate #riba #bartlettsummershow #design #project #visualisation #render #unrealengine #architecture #archilovers #architecturedesign #architecturestudent #studio #work

Generative Morphologies, An Architecture Assemblage for Additive Decay The Bartlett School of Architecture UG6 Y3P3 Instructors: @stefanlengen @benspong In the midst of an emerging climate crisis, building materials have been imbued with productive ecological tendencies that resist weather anomalies and habitat degradation. Circumventing from these conversations and the pursuit for material utopias, is there a way for an architecture to morph and adapt through the ephemerality of time, weather, and habitation? Prompted by the design practice of ruination and the vicissitudes of our climate crisis, the project investigates an architecture that ‘humanises nature’; one that corporealises and reveals the elastic, enigmatic nuances of time and habitation, and in the process synthesises these hidden realities with the poetics of additive decay. #thebartlett #thebartlettschoolofarchitecture #architecture #bsa #ucl #architectureundergraduate #riba #bartlettsummershow #design #project #visualisation #render #unrealengine #architecture #archilovers #architecturedesign #architecturestudent #studio #work

Anemographic Reciprocities, Perpetuating the Fetch The Bartlett School of Architecture UG6 Y3P1 Instructors: Stefan Lengen and Ben Spong In this project, the artistry of registration unveils not merely a documentation of moments but a transformative act, inviting contemplation upon the transient reciprocity of environmental dynamics and its landscape. Sited within Blackweir Pond in Epping Forest, the apparatus anticipates the registration of a wind fetch and is designed as a gift to Liam for his seasonal expeditions to the pond. The analog medium is kinetically motivated, conceived as a kit of parts that reciprocates forces of wind and light into a time-based etching and film exposure. Deployed within the edges of the pond, the apparatus leverages on two rotary axes that translate capillary waves and wind motion onto a canvas as charcoal etchings, and a long exposure from the transposition of a panoramic slit-scan pinhole camera. #thebartlett #thebartlettschoolofarchitecture #architecture #bsa #architectureschool #ucl #architectureundergraduate #riba #bartlettsummershow #prototype #design #project #model #craft #making #material #installation #vsco #photography #studio #apparatus #film #drawing #environmentart

Anemographic Reciprocities, Perpetuating the Fetch The Bartlett School of Architecture UG6 P1 [Registration] [Portfolio Selects] In this project, the artistry of registration unveils not merely a documentation of moments but a transformative act, inviting contemplation upon the transient reciprocity of environmental dynamics and its landscape. Sited within Blackweir Pond in Epping Forest, the apparatus anticipates the registration of a wind fetch and is designed as a gift to Liam for his seasonal expeditions to the pond. The analog medium is kinetically motivated, conceived as a kit of parts that reciprocates forces of wind and light into a time-based etching and film exposure. Deployed within the edges of the pond, the apparatus leverages on two rotary axes that translate capillary waves and wind motion onto a canvas as charcoal etchings, and a long exposure from the transposition of a panoramic slit-scan pinhole camera. #thebartlett #thebartlettschoolofarchitecture #architecture #bsa #architectureschool #ucl #architectureundergraduate #riba #bartlettsummershow #prototype #design #project #model #craft #making #material #installation #vsco #photography #studio

Anemographic Reciprocities, Perpetuating the Fetch The Bartlett School of Architecture UG6 Y3P1 Instructors: Stefan Lengen and Ben Spong The art of registration encapsulates a nuanced dance between meticulous observation and the intricate webs of interpretation. It beckons us to grapple with the complexities of rendering the world into tangible forms as we navigate the boundaries between subjectivity and objectivity, often teasing out temporal fragments of existence through an act of poeisis. However, as we explore the notion of registration, perhaps, we should start to investigate its boundaries in ecological revelation. As such, could it reveal the imperceptible forces of nature? And by doing so, how could we embody these forces that transcend time and space into a visual dialogue? In this project, the artistry of registration unveils not merely a documentation of moments but a transformative act, inviting contemplation upon the transient reciprocity of environmental dynamics with its landscape. Sited within Blackweir Pond in Epping Forest, the apparatus anticipates the registration of a wind fetch and designed as a gift to a local forester for his seasonal expeditions to the pond. The analog medium is kinetically motivated, conceived as a kit of parts that reciprocates forces of wind and light into a time-based etching and film exposure. Deployed within the edges of the pond, the apparatus leverages on two rotary axes that translate capillary waves and wind motion onto a canvas as charcoal etchings, and a long exposure from the transposition of a panoramic slit-scan pinhole camera. #thebartlett #thebartlettschoolofarchitecture #architecture #bsa #architectureschool #ucl #architectureundergraduate #riba #bartlettsummershow #prototype #design #project #model #craft #making #material #installation #vsco #photography #studio