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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen. I am sorry if you don't have flash installed in your browser you can not see the movie.
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 :::
Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen.
About the photographs: 0lll has documented and
published the construction process of the Serpentine Gallery Summer
Pavilion since 2002 when the Toyo Ito's project was build on the gallery's lawn.
With every pavilion we have tried different things, starting
with Ito's when we had no idea of how the final product was going
to look like, we concentrated on individual pieces and witnessed how
these came together to create and indivisible whole.
For the Niemeyer
building we stitched series of photographs to create panoramic
images which showed the dynamic of the construction site and the relation
of the pavilion with the landscape.
Having the chance to go high above
the site with the use of a cherry picker during the building of Siza's
pavilion and being able to look at the expanse of Hyde Park, the Serpentine
and Kensington Gardens and we could easily imagine how wonderful it would
have been to climb MVRDV's unrealised mountain pavilion of 2004. The
pavilion by Siza
and Eduardo Soto de Moura was particularly interesting to us
because it seemed compact and introverted when seen from the outside
but in fact its interior space expanded in all directions including
the vertical axis.
In 2006, Rem Koolhaas' project was an anticlimax, the ballon was not the translucent entity promised by the architect's drawing and rather than the non-pavilion projected by Koolhaas we got the uber-pavilion in architectural scale and symbolic form. Nevertheless the building opened a new chapter in the gallery's "pavilion typology" the change from a summer building to a summer-fall building and the collaboration between an artist and an architect.
Serpentine Gallery - pavilion description: In 2007 the pavilion designed by the internationally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson and the award-winning Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen, of the architectural practice Snøhetta, will open in August and remain on site until November 2007. The Pavilion will act as a ‘laboratory’ every Friday night with artists, architects, academics and scientists leading a series of public experiments. The programme, conceived by Eliasson and Thorsen with the Serpentine, will begin in September and culminate in an extraordinary, two-part, 48-hour marathon laboratory event exploring the architecture of the senses. |
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