“Part(s) for display” is partly a contribution to an exhibition, partly the display for the exhibition itself – it is mainly about parts.

“Part(s) for display” is one more stepping stone within the research of THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes into “Explicit and Encoded” (1) protocols of design driven toward “Precise Indetermination” (2)

(1) “Explicit” because the result of clear sets of instructions, manipulations, algorithms - and “Encoded” because written within scripted or programming languages

(2) “Precise” because control through numerical variables and always reproducible – and “Indetermination” because very often more complex than the sum of its custom simplicity.

“Part(s) for display” assembly is written within a current investigation at a series of different scale:

- the overall: development of protocols of surface relaxation - in order for the surface to generate best fit curvature in response to fix hanging or support points (floor, ceiling, walls) as curvature - despite generating apparent complexity - also provides natural structural stiffness.

- surface description (or sampling): re-understanding the resultant surface as series of points - which densities are relative to the degree of curvature – the more curvature the more points and eventually parts.

- surface reconstruction (or tessellation): previous work focused on describing complex surfaces with flat components – after working for different “high end” architectural and design practices - the only way to keep pushing non standard environments is to introduce the economy of parts as part of the equation – therefore early tests were first looking at ways to triangulate complex surfaces – and therefore strategize on panels cut within flat sheets of material – which very quickly evolved toward what is now the trendy “arrays of quads” components paradigm. “Part(s) for display” is now investigating the reconstruction of a surface with polygonal parts going from three edges to (n) number of edges.

- informed customization: each part is similar though not identical – its change of size and proportion is therefore allows to describe different radius of curvature – but also local re-reading of orientation is driving the length and width of branches – the flatter, the wider in order to provide more surface alike coverage.