Prototyping Architecture As Light, Church Ope Cove. 2022.
Isle of Portland, UK
Prototyping Architecture as Light, Church Ope Cove is currently exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Show 2025.
This long exposure photograph, captured over two minutes, records the traced lined of an architectural folly designed for Church Ope Cove on the Isle of Portland, transposed into GPS space through the computer controlled flight of a drone. The work is a sculpture drawn in light, existing only within the temporal recording of the camera lens.
The work represents the beginning of a line of enquiry translating architectural prototyping from the model scale to the landscape scale, through the shared language of the vectorised digital tool-path.
The work was completed during his Masters of Architecture degree at UCL, for which he was awarded the Bartlett Medal.
Computer controlled drone with custom light mount
The sculptural light rendering is a simplified prototype of a proposed vectorised architecture. Here, the woven bathing folly straddles the tidal region between land and sea, 3D printed in filament as a single line drawing in three-dimensional space.
The identical toolpath is compressed onto a 2D plane, creating a density of linework that conveys the plan and elevation.
