Architecture

What is in store for the future of Percy? Speculation, a lot of it. The next stages are to explore and exploit Percy’s formal and spatial qualities and distil them through various processes such as suprematist compositions, metamodernist photography, mapping, juxtaposing and reinterpretation etc.

So in many respects we created a machine, a factory to produce architectural form from the formal qualities of Percy, which will always relate back to the conceptual principles on which Percy was established as an entity, thus preventing us of falling in the trap of creating suprematist architecture from a mish-mash of randomized shapes which can be altered to suit the site.

Percy has become the device for a process that creates a vast and (probably infinite) amount of work that can be translated as architectural formal interpretation. These exercises are made in absence of any type or building brief, so in many respects it turns the usual creative process which everyone is used to on its head with the concept of function following form. But in fact that is not entirely true, although it is quite a perverse technique which many architects would consider too abstract or too radical to accept, Percy is providing us with a pseudo-infinite amount of possibilities that could be reinterpreted and re-iterated many more times to suit the function or the site conditions, without falling in the abysmal state of producing shape with no meaning, concept or intellectual background and ambition.

The next step is setting up an art gallery in about 2 weeks which will present the study of the object of Percy. Some of our colleagues considered we were picking up where Warhol left with this factory type cult of the object artistic approach, which is true to some extent, but what we are creating at the moment is a process, a means to a means of designing architecture. So in many respects we are not celebrating the object, but the process or the transformation and the interpretation.

These are some renders done in high quality textures that I have created, next step is to tryout some more unconventional textures and see what results we get.

The compositions below are made by one of my teammates, really interesting pieces, though one fell off :).

And lastly some speculations made by me based on details from Percy, it is a rhythm and spatiality study based on altering different iterations of the same vector.

These are the first techniques and the first drafts we produced, we are hoping to enlarge our spectrum of operations greatly in the following week by employing more complex processes and algorithms.

P.S. Percy will star in a movie, the trailer is not out yet : )