As part of an annual architecture commission organized by the Serpentine Gallery to create a temporary structure, Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has been selected to design the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion.
Described by Junya as being “a hill made out of rocks”, the Serpentine Pavilion will be constructed by arranging states from the ground up to form a canopy roof.
“My design for the Pavilion plays with our perspectives of the built environment against the backdrop of a natural landscape, emphasising a natural and organic feel as though it had grown out of the lawn, resembling a hill made out of rocks,” explained Junya. “This is an attempt to supplement traditional architecture with modern methodologies and concepts, to create in this place an expanse of scenery like never seen before.
“Possessing the weighty presence of slate roofs seen around the world, and simultaneously appearing so light it could blow away in the breeze, the cluster of scattered rock levitates, like a billowing piece of fabric,” said Junya.
As the founder of an award-winning architecture firm called Junya Ishigami + Associates, Junya is the 19th architect selected to design a temporary structure on Serpentine Gallery’s lawn in Kensington Gardens, London.
Selected by Serpentine Galleries Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist and CEO Yana Peel alongside various advisors such as Head of Construction and Buildings of Serpentine Galleries Julie Burnell, Amira Gad, Sir David Adjaye OBE, Lord Richard Rogers and David Glover, the annual architecture commission since the year 2000 has enabled architects from across the world to create experimental projects.
“We are thrilled to be able to share the designs for Junya Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion – a structure informed by the natural world and situated in the middle of one of London’s greenest spaces: Kensington Gardens,” said Serpentine Galleries directors Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yana Peel. “The pavilion and its accompanying programme will be central to the Serpentine’s General Ecology strand – an ongoing investigation into complex systems, interspecies landscapes and the environment.”
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