56°09'41.8"N 10°12'46.5"E
Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Ghost in the Machine is an exploration into the potential of 3D scanning as a driver of form — paying particular close attention to the glitches arising from less-than-ideal scanning conditions. Using the technique of photogrammetry, a corner of the Architecture School workshop building was captured with 86 photographs — all from the same reference plane thus inducing a glitch around areas insufficiently photographed.

A technique for analysing the resulting mesh was established: by reflecting virtual light rays off of the mesh and cutting them after a specified length, a cloud of points in three dimensional space, each with an associated direction. This resulting vector field is then used to perturb and warp a strict, rational form — in this case a series of tight parallel lines.
The resulting geometry instructed a series of CNC toolpaths which were milled into dense polystyrene blocks and used as casting formwork. The resulting concrete tiles were laid out on the ground running parallel to the scanned corner — a visual spacial disturbance induced by the local material conditions.