Serpentine Summer House
Precedent Study
OVERVIEW
In this module, we need digitally model a precedent study (a pavilion) from orthographic information provided online and explored diagrams as a means of communication.
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Project Info
YEAR
2016
DESIGNER
BARKOW LEIBINGER
LOCATION
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
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BACKGROUND
By commissioning a temporary summer pavilion by a leading architect every year, the serpentine galleries in londons kensington gardens is known as an international site for architectural experimentation. Its architecture programme expands for 2016 with four summer houses joining the serpentine pavilion.
Queen caroline’s temple, an 18th-century historical “summer house” Attributed to William kent and situated in the proximity of the serpentine gallery, stands seemingly purposeless facing a large meadow. A second, today extinct, pavilion also designed by William kent was situated on a nearby man-made mountain constructed from the dredging of the artificial long water. This small pavilion rotated mechanically 360 degrees at the top of the hill offering various panoramic views of the park and, reciprocally, different views of itself when seen from the park.
It was meant to be seen in the park and was meant as a structure from which to see its surroundings. The little mountain and house disappeared at some point in history.
With this in mind (temporality and the absent house) Barkow Leibinger designed a pavilion in the round standing free with all its sides visible. It is conceived as a series of undulating
Lines constituting bands and forming part of the structure that is reminiscent of a contour drawing (or the act of drawing a form without lifting the pencil up from the paper and only looking at the subject). The logic of generating a structure from loops of ribbon is a self-generating one and comes from a logic of making that is, by coiling material in your hands round and round then stacking the material upon itself.
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MODELING
MODELING PROCESS
SUN STUDY
