Renderings Released for SANAA's 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
The pavilion will host Park Nights, an outdoor performance series featuring talks, film screenings, a poetry marathon, and more.
Laurel Petriello -- Interior Design, 3/31/2009 12:00:00 AM
A few weeks ago, InteriorDesign.net announced the latest commissioned design team for the 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, New Museum architect SANAA. Today, the gallery released renderings of the annual temporary structure designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.
With big shoes to fill following previous Pavilion architects like Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Daniel Libeskind, SANAA designed an organic shade structure fashioned from aluminum sheeting atop a series of columns, which seemingly hovers above gallery patrons like a cloud. The metal roof varies in height, wrapping itself around trees in the landscape, reflecting both the park and sky, celebrating the natural environment.
“The Pavilion is floating aluminum, drifting freely between the trees like smoke. The reflective canopy undulates across the site, expanding the park and sky,” stated the architects. “Its appearance changes according to the weather, allowing it to melt into the surroundings. It works as a field of activity with no walls, allowing views to extend uninterrupted across the park and encouraging access from all sides.”
The annual summertime project, which mirrors the Young Architects Program competition at New York’s P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, plays host each year to a café and an auditorium on the lawn of the London-based gallery for Park Nights outdoor performance series, which includes talks, film screenings, a poetry marathon, and more. This is the ninth incarnation of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. It launches this July and remains open to the public until October.
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