London - Every year, the Serpentine Gallery commissions an artist/architect to design its temporary pavilion, past contributors have included Ai Weiwei, Zaha Hadid and Oscar Niemeyer.
This year Bjarke Ingels, the founder of the architectural group Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), designed the pavilion which was recently unveiled.
Described by Ingels as “both transparent and opaque, both solid box and blob”, the piece consists of hundreds of fibreglass frames, piled upon each other to create a curved, distorted wall.
Looking at the pavilion straight on it appears as a rectangle, yet side-on reveals the true nature of the curved structure. “We liked this idea that, quite often, interesting things happen when you change seemingly incompatible elements and you combine them into a new hybrid - we call it BIGamy!” Ingels told Dezeen.
The pavilion is located outside the Serpentine gallery, in Kensington Gardens, London. You can visit the gallery between the 10 June and 9 October.
The Independent