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Design News Serpentine Summer Houses for 2016 (1)

Design News: Serpentine Summer Houses for 2016

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Design News: Serpentine Summer Houses for 2016 – The Serpentine Gallery has unveiled the designs for four Summer Houses that will accompany this year’s Bjarke Ingels designed Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London’s Kensington Gardens, in London.

The four structures form part of the gallery’s newly expanded annual architecture programme.

Design News Serpentine Summer Houses for 2016 (1)

Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi, Berlin studio Barkow Leibinger, Paris-based architect Yona Friedman and British architect Asif Khan will each create an architectural folly to accompany the main pavilion, now in its 15th year.

The structures are intended to reference the 18th-century Neoclassical summerhouse – named Queen Caroline’s Temple – that is also located in Kensington Gardens.

Design News Serpentine Summer Houses for 2016 (1)

Adeyemi of NLÉ has created an inverse replica of the folly, which will be constructed from prefabricated building blocks assembled from sandstone. The architect intends the Temple to fulfil the primary purpose of a summerhouse as a space for shelter and relaxation.

Design News Serpentine Summer Houses for 2016 (1)

“The carved-out void, soft interior and fragmented furniture blocks create comfortable spaces for people to eat, rest or play – in and around the house – all through the summer season,” said Adeyemi.

Design News Serpentine Summer Houses for 2016 (1)

Asif Khan has drawn on the Temple’s location close to the water and the way it catches sunlight reflected off the Serpentine lake for his design. His summerhouse features a polished metal platform and roof, surrounded the undulating timber staves. Stepping stones mark the entrance to Khan’s structure.

Design News Serpentine Summer Houses for 2016 (1)

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Barkow Leibinger has based its design on a second 18th-century building that once rotated on top of an artificial hill to offer panoramic views of the Royal Park but was later demolished.

“With this absent structure in mind, we have designed a summerhouse in-the-round,” said the architects. “Standing free with all its sides visible, and conceived as a series of undulating structural bands, it is reminiscent of a blind contour drawing (a drawing executed without lifting the pencil up from the paper and only looking at the subject).”

Design News Serpentine Summer Houses for 2016 (1)

Finally, Yona Friedman has designed a structure based on his La Villa Spatiale project, which the architect has been working on since the 1950s. This proposes using mobile and modular architecture to allow cities to grow without needing lots of land and to help people create their own house designs.

Design News Serpentine Summer Houses for 2016 (1)

“The Serpentine Summer House is a ‘space-chain’ structure that constitutes a fragment of a larger grid structure, originally conceived for La Ville Spatiale,” said Friedman. “It is a modular structure that can be disassembled and assembled in different formations and compositions.”

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All of the structures will be built on sites close to the main pavilion, which will occupy the lawn in front of the Serpentine Gallery.

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Source: dezeen.com

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