![]() The planned extension and refurbishment of Jahn Court forms part of Endurance Land’s ten-year vision to revitalise Regent Quarter, a mixed-use 3.5 acre urban quarter east of King’s Cross station. The Supermodels exhibition is located in the Jahn Court building, which is currently at the often unseen point of a project between strip out works and construction. The models were made over a five year period in Piercy&Company’s London studio by the architectural team, between and around projects. Supermodels seeks to reconnect digital and physical worlds through a childlike sense of wonder and unfiltered joy. The evocation of delight is intentionally egalitarian – an exploration of a mode of architectural communication that is ageless and universal. The ‘coming alive’ of the models through film, sound and movement plays into the mysterious allure of objects with a miniature life of their own – the doll's house, the cuckoo clock, the model railway. Rather, they are a creative body of work and an experiment in how far the model can be pushed as a tool for communicating architectural ideas.Įach super model is based on a building by Piercy&Company – some built, some unbuilt – and abstracted to capture the kernel of the idea behind the building. ![]() The mechanical automata, projection, sound, light and scent employed in Supermodels are not the everyday techniques and products of an architectural project. Supermodels represents the distillation of 20 years of Piercy&Company’s design thinking around the importance of the haptic, sensory and experiential in architecture.
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