Tuesday 18 June 2013

architecture

"It is a really fundamental question how architecture is different from nature, or how architecture could be part of nature, or how they could be merged...what are the boundaries between nature and artificial things." Sou Fujimoto 



The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 is designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto

He is the thirteenth and, at 41, youngest architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure for the Serpentine Gallery. The most ambitious architectural programme of its kind worldwide, the Serpentine's annual Pavilion commission is one of the most anticipated events on the cultural calendar. Past Pavilions have included designs by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei (2012), Frank Gehry (2008), the late Oscar Niemeyer (2003) and Zaha Hadid, who designed the inaugural structure in 2000. 

Serpentine Gallery: OPENING WEEK Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 Designed by Sou Fujimoto Until 20 October 2013



Serpentine Gallery becomes Serpen-Tron with radical new pavilion

It looks like a 1980s vision of a computer mainframe or a 3D garden trellis on steroids. But will Sou Fujimoto's amazing grid be able to cope with rain and other humdrum British realities?
Link to video: Sou Fujimoto on the Serpentine pavilion 2013


A cloud appears to have dropped out of the sky and landed among the trees in Kensington Gardens, in west London. This hazy lattice of spindly white rods, which hovers above the ground like a digital apparition, is the 13th annual Serpentine Gallery pavilion, designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. At 41, Fujimoto is the youngest architect to be selected for the commission, and he brings a fresh, experimental energy to the project.
"I wanted to create a structure that was somewhere between architecture and nature," he says, "something like the primitive beginnings of a building."
His pavilion is not composed of walls or roofs, but rather is seemingly grown from a steel matrix that extends upwards and outwards in all directions, like a garden trellis on steroids. It forms a shape-shifting mass with no discernible edges. Here and there, it rises into pert peaks and swells outwards in dramatic overhangs; from other angles, it appears to slump like a deflated meringue.
Serpentine Gallery becomes Serpen-Tron with radical new pavilion | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

'This is, quite simply, the best summer Pavilion there's been at the Serpentine' - Time Out 



Serpentine Gallery: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 Designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei 1 June - 14 October 2012

And more from Ai WeiWei:



He has since distanced himself from this project:
China artist Ai Weiwei says he regrets designing Beijing Olympics Bird's Nest - Telegraph

But the Chinese government still loves it:
Introduction of Tourist Attractions - 国家体育场官方网站

For something completely different:



For 10 years, Ben Law lived in tents and caravans in a wood in West Sussex. As a woodsman, he needed and wanted to live among the trees, but now he wants a house for some creature comforts. Ben has invited volunteers to help him build a sustainable house by hand, from the materials growing around him.
Grand Designs - Sussex - The Woodsmans Cottage - YouTube

I felt the need to put this video from Grand Designs, this is without any doubt the best design on the program and aparantly the favorite also to Kevin McCloud. For more information about this house project and the man behind it visit Ben Law Woodsman
The Woodman's Cottage - YouTube

A very popular TV series:
Grand Designs - Channel 4

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