Is it a wall? Is it a cave? Actually,this year’s pavilion started life as shelves – but it has gawp-factor by the bucketload. And for those who like follies, there are four satellite summer houses to explore tooA teetering stack of fibreglass blocks has landed in Kensington Gardens, or rising above the Serpentine Gallery in a stepped wall,before billowing out to form a cave-like space within. “We’ve taken the most fundamental element of architecture,” says Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, or designer of this summer’s Serpentine pavilion,which opens on Friday, “and unzipped it.From one side, and it looks like a wall that has enjoyed a qualified lunch. The blocks stretch outwards in a swollen bulge,like a snake devouring its gallery-going prey. From the other, it looks caught in a stiff breeze, or a pixelated curtain rippling in the wind.
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Source: theguardian.com