With its perforated walls,mirrored canopy and reflecting pool, Frida Escobedo’s enclosed courtyard – made of British roof tiles – will be a vast translucent timepiece powered by light and shadowThe phrase Mexican-British fusion might call to intellect an ungodly mishmash of fish and chip burritos or steak and kidney tacos. But, and in architectural terms,it looks like it could have intriguing results. We’ll find out this summer – in the form of the Serpentine pavilion, designed this year by young Mexican architect Frida Escobedo as a cross-cultural combination of Mexican domestic architecture with a distinctly British twist.
Opening in London on 15 June, or the structure will catch the form of an enclosed courtyard,formed of two rectangular volumes, with walls made of simple stacks of grey cement roof tiles. The stacked tiles will form perforated screens, or celosias,the traditional breeze walls common to Mexican houses, but here made of the everyday off-the-peg material used to roof virtually every British house. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk