Frozen Relic : Arctic Works by ScanLAB Projects

The exhibition, Frozen Relic: Arctic Works, recreates this landscape in its natural material – frozen saltwater. Each piece is a digitally fabricated scale replica of the original ice floe which was 3D scanned from above and documented using underwater sonar from below. The completed digital model is used to guide a CNC machine which carves the moulds in which each replica is cast.

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Ruairi Glynn, Fearful Symmetry

Something primitive animated the darkness of the Tate Modern’s recently opened Tanks. Through the interplay of luminous form and motion, ambiguity in visual perception is explored and manipulated in an unfolding interactive experience.

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Young Vic, The Cut London

We were commissioned to scan The Young Vic for Haworth Tompkins as part of their exhibition at the Venice Biennial 2012. The animation is on show alongside several 1:1 sections of the facade and will be open in Arsenale till 25th November.

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The House of Detention

We've been fortunate enough to have access to The House of Detention, the basement of a disused prison in Clerkenwell, London. The space is enormous and fascinating. In its 'prime' in the 19th Century an estimated 10,000 passed through each year while awaiting trial.

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Arctic Climate Impact Tour 2011

With suggestions that the Arctic ice could reach a record low this year, ScanLAB Projects joined one of Greenpeace’s tours to the region to map what is going on up there. Harnessing the skills usually used for large scale architectural or artistic projects we are now working with Cambridge University scientists to produce detailed computer simulations of the ice floes.

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Young Architect of the Year Award 2011 Exhibition

The Young Architect of the Year Award 2011 exhibition at the Architectural Foundation was designed by Moxon Architects. 

The exhibition showcases work from some of the United Kingdoms most exciting emerging practices. We were commissioned to capture the exhibition and produce a series of images which dissected the space and the celebrated work.

Another lovely example of using 3D scanning to capture temporary events.

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The Angel Building, AHMM Architects

The Angel Building by AHMM was nomitated for the 2011 RIBA Stirling Prize and featured in the BBC's Culture Show coverage of the Awards. Over three days ScanLAB captured the exterior, roof terraces, internal floors and atrium space creating a series of animations which explain the building key features and the history of the structure.  

Located on corner site where City Road and St John Street, the building is a considered and intelligent retrofit of a worn out 80's concrete building...  

Regents Park, Carmody Groarke Architects, Frieze Art Fair

Frieze Art Fair takes place every October in Regent Park, London. Showing works by more than 1000 artists which are represented by contemporary galleries from all over the world. The fair is hosted within a 20,000m2 temporary venue built from tent structures within the beautiful context of Regents Park, London.

This year the architects Carmody Groarke wanted to create a new experience for the public hospitality and VIP functions in the fair by wrapping a series of interlinked, translucent pavilions around the existing trees within the park.

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Stirling Prize Winner 2011: Zaha Hadid's Evelyn Grace Academy

Zaha Hadid Architect's Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton, South London is the winner of this years RIBA Stirling Prize. As part of this years BBC Culture Show coverage of the event ScanLAB Projects were asked to capture the new building and its site.  The completed scan of the as built structure in its surroundings was used throughout the coverage to explain the architectural principles of the design.

The Evelyn Grace Academy has a complex brief, with four schools under a single ‘academy umbrella.’  The 3D scan enabled BBC presenter Tom Dyckhoff to explain

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Slow Life Scanning @ The House of Detention

Slow Life Scanning is a technique we have been experimenting with over the last couple of years.  In a similar manner to long exposure photography we are capturing motion over a period of time but rather than just a single 2D image, we capture this information in 3D.

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Gramazio & Kohler Architecture and Digital Fabrication @ Fabricate 2011

During Fabricate 2011 we were lucky enough to exhibit with Gramazio & Kohler in the Bartett’s Gallery Space.  Their exhibit was fascinating - robotic fabrication using live feedback from a laser scanner to edit the construction while in process.  Just before it was disassembled we managed to grab a few scans of the completed structure with the robot trapped inside.  We’re hoping this data will form part of a series of collaborative investigations, testing the products of digital fabrication against the idealised digital designs they come from.  How close to our digital ideal are the objects we make?

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Fabricate 2011 Conference Venue Scan

We are privileged to have been a part of the hugely successful Fabricate 2011 conference, exhibition and publication last weekend (14th+15h April).  As well as exhibiting our HD light boxes alongside Gramazio & Kohler's live robotic fabrication we snapped a few quick 3D scans of events throughout the weekend.  Shown here is a quick animation through the chemistry auditorium during a great presentation by Tim Lucas of Price & Myers.

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Bartlett Summer Show 2010 [Plan_Section_Elevation]

The Bartlett School of Architecture Summer Show is the annual exhibition of all student work produced that academic year.  It comprises a collection of over a thousand models, installations, prototypes, drawings, photographs, films, sketches and designs presented across four large exhibition spaces in the Slade School of Art, UCL each summer. The show lasts for just seven days but represents the output of over 450 Bartlett students, thousands of hours of labour and thousands of pounds in materials.

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Sixteen*(Makers) 55/02

In 2010 we produced a series of black and white and later colour scans of 55/02 - a shelter on the north shore of Keilder Water, Northumberland.  55/02 is the product of a collaboration, between architect Sixteen*Makers and metal fabricator Stahlbogen.   We used the scanning process as a tool for checking the actual product against idealised digital designs.

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Centre for Creative Collaboration

The Centre for Creative Collaboration brings together leading and innovative researchers from London’s universities and colleges, creative industry practitioners and freelancers, SMEs and students.  The centre provides a community spirited studio space where ideas can be tested, discussed and shared.  ScanLAB has been supported by c4cc in a number of other projects and to return their hospitality, a day in the life of the centre has been captured, in 30 scans of the interior and exterior.

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Scanning the Mist

We have been speculating on the capabilities of 3D scanning.

We thought it might be interesting to see if the scanner could detect smoke and mist. It did and here are the remarkable results!   These scans acted as a test for the later site specific work 'Slow Becoming Delightful.'

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Slow Becoming Delightful

‘Slow Becoming Delightful’ was Will's final project while completing the MArch program at the Bartlett.  Designed to draw attention to the magical properties of weather events, the installation consisted of a series of passively activated pressure vessels linked to an array of humidity tanks. Over a period of time, energy and water is collected and stored.  When the ‘ideal’ circumstances were in place a fine mist was dispersed creating a rainbow.

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Subverting the LiDAR Landscape

This project was completed as Matt's MArch studies at the Bartlett, UCL.

The work explores the subversion of city scale 3D scanning in London.  The project uses hypothetical devices which are installed across the city and which edit the way the city is scanned and recorded.  With Google tourism acting as many people's preferred method of urban spatial research we think 3D scanning is likely to be a major tool in the creation of future online versions of our cities and our world - versions within which people spend more and more of their daily lives.  By placing these devices in the way of Google's cars the projects hacks the original recording process of these worlds.

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Stealth Objects

Also part of Matt's MArch studies this series of works uses scanning in two ways: to synchronise digital and physical workflows, so objects could be manipulated both by hand and by computer and then to test the success of the final 'stealth objects.'  These stealth objects are the tools of a hypothetical insurgency, aiming to go undetected by escalating 3D scanning surveillance techniques.  (See Subverting the LiDAR Landscape)

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Abney Park Cemetery

An opportunity arose to visit and scan the decaying chapel in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington.  Badly damaged by a fire, the Chapel is awaiting heritage funding in the hope that the roof and floor can be repaired.  The scans provide a forensic snap shot of the church’s current condition and its intriguing surroundings.

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