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Serpentine Gallery - temporary shelters
2007
Zaha Hadid Architects
Location: Kensington Gardens, west London

Lilas
Photos: Luke Hayes

Zaha Hadids work formed at last minute (6 weeks lead-in) following
incomplete work by artist Olafur Eliasson.
Serpentine Gallery pavilion by Olafur Eliasson will be in place from Aug
to Oct
Serpentine Pavilion
2007 : Zaha Hadid

PROGRAM: Temporary tensile fabric Installation consisting of 3 parasols
for the Serpentine Gallerys Summer Party located in Kensington Gardens.
CLIENT: Serpentine Gallery
ARCHITECT: Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect Kevin McClellan
CONSULTANTS: Structural ARUP
Steel Fabrication: Sheetfabs Ltd.
Membrane Fabrication: Base Structures Ltd.
Lighting design: Zumbotel
Furniture provided by: Estabished & Sons, Kenny Schachter, Sawaya
& Moroni, Serralunga, Max Protetch, Swarovski
SIZE/AREA: Height 5.5 m Width 22.5 m Length 22.5 m Total Floor Area 310
m2

The Serpentine Summer Party Installation is designed as an open air space
raising 5.5m that consists of three identical tensile fabric structures
or parasols arrayed around a central point. Each parasol develops sculpturally
from a small articulated base to a large cantilevered diamond shape. Taking
inspiration from complex natural geometries such as flower petals and
leaves the three parasols overlap to create the pavilions main conceptual
feature: complex symmetry, interweaving all-the-while without touching,
allowing air, light and sound to travel through narrow gaps in a state
that is both open and likewise tending toward closure.

Raised on a low platform located within an open fi eld fl anked by a row
of trees just South of the Serpentine Gallery, the Serpentine Summer Party
Pavilion is free standing and accessible from all sides. Accommodating
movement throughout the site, the Pavilion is enigmatic. In the day it
provides shading, while at night the pavilion undergoes an energetic transformation
into a source of illumination. From continuous lighting around each base,
light is thrown up the fabric surfaces along very thin seams that radiate
about the parasols that act like corseting or the veining of flowers revealing
the geometric intricacy of the pavilion and highlighting the overall architectural
form in calligraphic arcs.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion info from Zaha Hadid Architects
London Buildings
Serpentine Pavilion
2007 original architect : Snøhetta

The Serpentine Gallery annually commissions an internationally acclaimed
architect to design a temporary Pavilion for its lawn
Serpentine Pavilion
architect 2006 : Rem Koolhaas
Serpentine Pavilion
architect 2005 : Álvaro Siza & Eduardo Souto de Moura
Serpentine
Pavilion architect 2003 : Oscar Niemeyer
Serpentine Pavilion
architect 2002 : Toyo Ito
Serpentine
Pavilion architect 2001 : Daniel Libeskind
Serpentine
Pavilion architect 2000 : Zaha Hadid
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