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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion with Toyo Ito
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion with Toyo Ito
London, United Kingdom
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion with Toyo Ito
London, United Kingdom
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2002
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
Winner of the Gengo Matsui prize for engineering, the 2002 Serpentine Pavilion was a collaboration between Balmond and Toyo Ito. The intention: to transform the most ordinary of spatial typologies – the box – into something extraordinary.
Noticing the pathways and channels intersecting Hyde Park, like the enigmatic Nazca earthworks, Balmond used a network of lines and velocities to criss-cross through the Pavilion’s box shape. A specially developed algorithm was proposed: half to a third of adjacent sides of the square, which quickly resulted in a pattern of many crossings. The lines and crossings became supportive steel blades, and a chequered pattern of glass and aluminium panels added to the sharpness of form.
Noticing the pathways and channels intersecting Hyde Park, like the enigmatic Nazca earthworks, Balmond used a network of lines and velocities to criss-cross through the Pavilion’s box shape. A specially developed algorithm was proposed: half to a third of adjacent sides of the square, which quickly resulted in a pattern of many crossings. The lines and crossings became supportive steel blades, and a chequered pattern of glass and aluminium panels added to the sharpness of form.
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