蛇形画廊四夏屋 | Barkow Leibinger

Firm： Barkow Leibinger

Type： Cultural › Gallery Pavilion

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2016

SIZE： 0 sqft - 1000 sqft

Photos： Iwan Baan (6)

In 2016 the Serpentine Galleries in London’s Kensington Gardens expanded the annual summer pavilion program to include four Summer Houses curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Adjacent to Queen Caroline’s Temple, an 18th-century historical “summer house” attributed to William Kent and situated in the proximity of the Serpentine Gallery, the Summer House designed by Barkow Leibinger referred to a second, today extinct pavilion also designed by William Kent. The small historical pavilion would rotate 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.

Barkow Leibinger’s Summer House was designed as a freestanding pavilion in-the-round with all of its sides visible. It was conceived as a series of undulating bands reminiscent of a contour line drawing. Four bands of structure organized the pavilion: a bench level attached to the ground; a second band of three C-shaped walls; and a third and fourth level crown formed from a cantilevering tree-like canopy roof hovering over the smaller undulating wood bench footprint below. The Summer House was constructed with a bendy plywood skin over a steel tube frame, materials intrinsically in harmony with the looping geometry of the structure.

Serpentine Architecture Programme 2016: Pavilion and Summer Houses, London, UK

June 10th — October 9th, 2016

Architects

Barkow Leibinger, Berlin

Frank Barkow, Regine Leibinger

Project Architects

Blake Villwock, Vincenzo Salierno

Team

Jan Blifernez, Linda Zhang, Jane Wong

Location

Kensington Gardens, London, UK

Size 50 sqm

Client

Serpentine Galleries, London, UK

Technical Advisor

David Glover, Intelligent Engineering, Gerrards Cross, UK

Engineering, Technical services

AECOM, London, UK and AKT11, London, UK

Construction

StageOne, Tockwith, York, UK

Photos

© Iwan Baan, Amsterdam

© Barkow Leibinger, Berlin