Inaugurated last June and visible until October 6th, the Serpentine Pavilion, a temporary structure erected in London's Hyde Park, is the perfect harmonization between design, use of materials and environmental fusion. Created by the Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, the structure, thanks to the use of slate strips arranged so as to create a single canopy roof, seems to emerge from the ground, creating an intimate space like a cave in the interior that presents itself as an oasis-refuge for contemplation.

 

"The project plays with the perspectives of the environment built on the background of a natural landscape - explained the same Ishigami who took over the baton from Mexican Frida Escobedo, author of the 2018 creation - underlining a feeling of naturalness, as if it had originated from the lawn, similar to a hill made of rocks. This is an attempt to integrate traditional architecture with modern methodologies and concepts, in order to create in this place an extension of scenarios never seen before.

A perfect dichotomy between a heavy presence in slate and a light appearance almost as if it could be blown away by the breeze, a mass of rock that floats almost as if it were woven ".
Ph. © Iwan Baan