Future Urban Networks: Astronomical Unit (AU)

Sunday, 14 April 2013

Astronomical Unit (AU)

Alice: Oh, I'm not particular as to size, only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.

Metamorphose millimetres into Astronomical Units and the familiar becomes singularly strange and curious

Metamorphosis - 'the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages'

Referred to by Richard Osborne (British Interplanetary Society)

Future Cities 2 - Day 2

Future Urban Networks

Future Urban Networks is a research group based at the University of Huddersfield. F.U.N. developed from Unit 15, the postgraduate MArch architecture unit run by Nic Clear first at the Bartlett School of Architecture then at the University of Greenwich.

F.U.N. specialises in using film, animation, 3D scanning and motion graphics to generate, develop and represent architectural and spatial concepts and interventions.

Nic Clear is Head of the Department of Architecture and 3D Design at the University of Huddersfield.