The 2014 installation in Hyde Park was truly a sight, yearly organisers commission a selected architect or designer to create a temporary structure on the grounds of The Serpentine Gallery. The selected architect will only have six months to bring their vision to fruition.
Smiljan Radic was the architect behind this pavilion, his vision was to create a small romantic construction seen in parks and large gardens, the so-called follies that were popular in the late 16th century to the beginning of the 19th century.
In general the follies appear as ruins or have been worn away with time...
...the pavilion takes these principles and applies them using a contemporary language.
The ground flows and forms into the structure, openings in the structure allows light in giving visitors framed views and explores the relationship between the interior of the pavilion and the surrounding gardens.
The shell is translucent and made of fibreglass, the interior flooring is made from grey wooden decking as if the interior was a terrace rather than a protected interior space
Supporting steel frame and columns, the columns are masked inside stone, limiting sight of them and enhancing the visual appearance of the pavilion
first sight, visitors see a fragile structure suspended on quarry staones
Interior cafe and seating space
A lighting rail track runs along the ceiling of the shell, the rail track takes on a form similar to the frame openings of the structure. At night the semi transparent shell and amber tinted light draws the attention of passers by
Detail
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