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SERPENTINE PAVILION 2002

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.

Location:
London, UK
Collaborators:
Toyo Ito, Arup AGU
Completion:
June 2002
Built Area:
340 sqm
Program:
Temporary Pavilion
Budget:
£1 million
Client:
Serpentine Gallery Trust

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