Robert Atkinson
The Gothic Library
An ongoing (and slow-developing) project for a website specialising in 18th and 19th Century illustrations of English Gothic architecture.
Experiments
Two experimental pages using multiple images to give a dynamic view of three stages of Gothic structural development: semi-circular, pointed and fan vaulting (Gothic Structure 2 is rather incomplete).
A simple multiplication practice page. See what happens when you score 100! (music 'Lunar Dunes' by Spinning Clocks).
Two demonstrations of the principles of perspective (Perspective 1 is a bit abstract; Perspective 2 works quite nicely).
An experimental page using Microsoft's Seadragon image zooming facility in a combination of CAD model and illustrations from John Britton's study of Salisbury Cathedral, with draggable and resizeable panels (rather old now).
A short video of a Sketchup model of Salisbury Cathedral.
A calculator for use with a development of Fermat's Little Theorem, and a brief explanation of the mathematics behind it.
Essays
This paper was published in ARQ (Architectural Research Quarterly), issue 14/3 (November 2010).
An analysis of the role of the Fresnel Diagram in design, including Raymond Unwin's garden city theory and its influence on Colin St John Wilson's British Library, with a commentary on the way in which an abstract diagram illustrating a simple geometric principle may itself become the basis for a building layout.
A phenomenological analysis of what it means to experience a space as private, including a discussion of the concept of the 'other' within phenomenology.
An investigation into the geometrical basis of the Cartesian Co-ordinate System and its development as a model of space.