Serpentine Pavilion
An Experience between Art and Vegetation PREV

The Serpentine Gallery annually commissions international architects of worldwide acclaim to design a pavilion on the gallery’s lawn that provides a unique showcase for contemporary architectural practice. Between the architects that have designed a pavilion at the Serpentine (Zaha Hadid, Álvaro Siza, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron or Frank Gehry) we want to remark this work Peter Zumthor with a garden of Piet Oudolf.

This work fulfills zumthor’s vision of ‘hortus conclusus’, an endeavor which focuses upon a synthesized experience between architecture and vegetation. The pavilion is constructed with a lightweight timber frame and then wrapped with scrim and coated with a black paste-and-sand mixture. upon traveling through a matrix of dark hallways with intermittent streams of natural light, this material gestures visitors attention away from the bustling city and towards the secluded intimate interior.

Serpentine Pavilion
KENSINGTON GARDENS
W2 3XA LONDON
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