ANIMATION REEL - Sam Owen Design

1. PRODUCTION HAS BEEN OUTSOURCED.

PROJECT REFERENCE: BCN 5.0: ALTRA VOLTA

MAPPING 2000 YEARS' OF PRODUCTION

Red dots indicate dedicated industry facilities over the city of Barcelona's 2000-yr history.

This mapping exercise reveals the progression of European cities from fully self-sufficient origins to a full export of production to the countryside and the global scaled economy.

Economies of scale provide economic
optimization but come at a hefty cost
to environment, culture, and resiliency.

Map Description

Red dots indicate dedicated industry facilities over the city of Barcelona's 2000-yr history.

-Z axis: Evolution of BCN's urban fabric over time

+Z axis: Evolution of BCN's sources of production over time

2. BARCELONA'S URBAN PALIMPSEST (0 CE - Present)

PROJECT REFERNCE: THE BLENDING FACTORY

EXPLORING BCN'S URBANITY (1840-PRESENT)

Barcelona's urban palimpsest explored in three different contexts:

URBAN FABRIC - documenting the age of building footprints across BCN's 2000-yr history;

TRANSPORTATION - documenting innovations in mass transit, from the first railroads to a dense streetcar network, later excavated and replaced by subways and freeways.

RECREATION - documenting the age of spaces reserved for public recreation, from World's Fair-era monumental parks to new public spaces recovered from the center of city blocks.

AR Interactive Model

REVEALING THE INVISIBILITIES OF A PARISIAN INTERNMENT CAMP

Re-membering the CIV (Centre d’Identification de Vincennes) is a research project led by Beth Weinstein that aims to make this detention and internment camp’s location, its architecture and the events that occurred there knowable to a broad public. The research explores how AR technologies can create a dynamic experience of a virtual CIV, as well as previously silenced voices, in the site where this internment camp once stood. This project also speculates on how a site-specific event can expand engagement with the phantom CIV into an embodied, collective, performative, and spatial act of re-membering.

TEAM

BETH WEINSTEIN - research + project lead

SAM OWEN - digital model, 3d texturing, video animation, model preparation for AR interpretation

TECH CORE - AR platform

NAFISUL HUQ KHONDAKER - lead developer

NICK BIGALKE - intern

IVAN ALTAMIRANO - photography + videography

VICTORIA OGINO + ASH BLACK - Tech Core leadership

Funding provided by University of Arizona research seed grant.

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UC Innovation Center

SANTIAGO, CHILE | ELEMENTAL ARQUITECTOS

MODULAR HOUSING UNITS

PROJECT REFERNCE: CASA MODULAR

1ST PLACE WINNER - NATIONAL AIAS IN STUDIO: MODEL COMPETITION

These two animations were part of a 2020 award-winning national competition entry to creatively feature studio models with an emphasis on modular construction. All units across the mixed-use development consist of 5 modules (3 middle segments capped by 2 end segments), and each module is enclosed by standardized wall panels, allowing for individual components of each unit to be removed, replaced, and upgraded with ease.