THE SERPENTINE MUSEUM PAVILION
MAKING IT UP: PHOTOGRAPHIC FICTIONS
The Serpentine Museum Pavilion is located inside Hyde Park which is a fifthteen minute walk from the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was created by Sou Fujimoto, a Japanese architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure for the Serpentine Gallery.
Describing his design concept, Sou Fujimoto said:
"For the 2013 Pavilion I propose an architectural landscape: a transparent terrain that encourages people to interact with and explore the site in diverse ways. Within the pastoral context of Kensington Gardens, I envisage the vivid greenery of the surrounding plant life woven together with a constructed geometry. A new form of environment will be created, where the natural and the man-made merge; not solely architectural nor solely natural, but a unique meeting of the two.
The delicate quality of the structure, enhanced by its semi-transparency, will create a geometric, cloud-like form, as if it were mist rising from the undulations of the park. From certain vantage points, the Pavilion will appear to merge with the classical structure of the Serpentine Gallery, with visitors suspended in space."
When I visited the Palivion I was so amazed by the the large scale of the terrain and how it was strong enough to hold a good amount of people (in constrast of my idea of being fragile and only for display purposes only) I didn't manage to climb and explore the Palivion but instead admired it from afar because how complex and complicated it looked. The experience of admiring it made me feel peaceful and relaxed as the sun reflected from the glass flooring and people taking photographs of the Palivion.
This is very interesting, but what did you think of the pavilion?
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