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'Razzle Dazzle'
by Phil Coy
Art and Architecture collaboration
Lewishham, London
2007 - ongoing
CLIENT:Barratt Homes
PARTNERS:
Assael Architects
LA Architects
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Futurecity are working in collaboration with LA Architects, Assael Architects and artist Phil Coy to create a stunning new leisure centre facility for Barratt Homes Loampit Vale scheme in Lewisham.
Presented with a huge curved glass grid forming the skin of the new Loampit Leisure Centre, the challenge for Futurecity was to identify an artist who could work in sympathy with the subtle architecture of this landmark structure. Phil Coy, an artist with extensive experience of working in colour theory was commissioned to work on a vibrant colour treatment which will utilise the structure and internal lighting potential of the building in harmony with the external glazing.
Phil has created a pulsing external glass grid of intense colour based on the colours of the architecture that stood on the Loampit site before it was levelled for redevelopment. Colour is ordered into 80cm square 'pixel' elements, and built into a huge grid forming the building skin. The grid is backlit with lighting which reacts and pulses to the trigger sound of passing traffic, creating an ever-changing, living, breathing 'beacon' uilding which reflects the history and context of the building location, and will permeate down through the scheme' residential quarter.
The striking facade artwork will continue in theme throughout the rest of the scheme, embedded as coloured elements and lighting throughout the public footpaths, as well as on the facade of the schemes energy centre, and residential unit balconies.
Presented with a huge curved glass grid forming the skin of the new Loampit Leisure Centre, the challenge for Futurecity was to identify an artist who could work in sympathy with the subtle architecture of this landmark structure. Phil Coy, an artist with extensive experience of working in colour theory was commissioned to work on a vibrant colour treatment which will utilise the structure and internal lighting potential of the building in harmony with the external glazing.
Phil has created a pulsing external glass grid of intense colour based on the colours of the architecture that stood on the Loampit site before it was levelled for redevelopment. Colour is ordered into 80cm square 'pixel' elements, and built into a huge grid forming the building skin. The grid is backlit with lighting which reacts and pulses to the trigger sound of passing traffic, creating an ever-changing, living, breathing 'beacon' uilding which reflects the history and context of the building location, and will permeate down through the scheme' residential quarter.
The striking facade artwork will continue in theme throughout the rest of the scheme, embedded as coloured elements and lighting throughout the public footpaths, as well as on the facade of the schemes energy centre, and residential unit balconies.