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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:17:54 +0530
Serpentine Pavilion 2006 is co-designed by Pritzker Prize-winning
architect Rem Koolhaas and innovative structural designer Cecil Balmond
// 13 July - 15 October
About the photographs: 0lll has had the privilege to document and
publish the construction process of the Serpentine Gallery Summer
Pavilion since the Toyo Ito's project was build on the gallery lawn in 2002.
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 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.
The renders of Rem Koolhaas' project are enigmatic. We see something
hovering above the gallery lawn. A cloud, a balloon filled with a grey
gas framed by a halo of light. At the moment the final image remains a
mystery but here you can see it taking shape. It looks like it will be
the largest Serpentine Pavilion to this date. Two building sites are
being use for its assembly. The balloon/cloud will easily top the
gallery height. This photographs document the pavilion process but also
watch the sky over the gallery. The ever changing summer sky of London,
of constant winds and fast moving clouds. It is an expectant sky. A sky
that is waiting for that new artificial cloud.
http://www.0lll.com/archgallery2/koolhaas_serpentine/index.htm