Site to open to public this Friday
The first photographs of this year’s Serpentine pavilion have been published ahead of the attraction opening to visitors this Friday.
Mexican practice LANZA atelier’s concept for the annual commission in Kensington Gardens references a traditional type of English garden wall known as a serpentine, or a crinkle-crankle wall.
Called A Serpentine, the scheme is an enclosure surrounded by a one-brick-thick wall with the typical undulating shape of crinkle-crankle walls, which provide stability.
The pavilion, which allows light and air to permeate the space, aims to challenge the idea of walls as features of division by inviting visitors to see through the scheme.
The first previews of the site are taking place today with its public opening set for 6 June.
AECOM provided multidisciplinary engineering and technical advisory services for the structure, working in collaboration with LANZA atelier and specialist contractor Stage One.
The wall is held together with a slender steel subframe rather than mortar, as part of a design strategy aiming to minimise waste when the structure is dismantled.
A prestress was applied along the top edge of the wall via threaded bars to ensure the walls and columns can support the weight of the structure’s roof, and controls the deflection and dynamic excitability of the walls.
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