Serpentine Pavilion 2015 designed by selgascano

In 2015, Spanish architects selgascano designed the 15th Serpentine Pavilion. The award-winning studio, headed by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, was the first Spanish architecture practice to be asked to design the temporary Pavilion on the Serpentine’s lawn in London’s Kensington Gardens. 

Serpentine Pavilion (2015) by Photograph © NAARO and Designed by selgascanoSerpentine

The Pavilion was an amorphous, double-skinned, polygonal structure consisting of panels of a translucent, multi-coloured fluorine-based polymer (ETFE) woven through and wrapped like webbing.

Serpentine Pavilion (2015) by Photograph © Iwan Baan and Designed by selgascanoSerpentine

Visitors could enter and exit the Pavilion at a number of different points, passing through a ‘secret corridor’ between the outer and inner layer of the structure and into the Pavilion’s brilliant, stained glass-effect interior.

Serpentine Pavilion (2015) by Photograph © Jim Stephenson and Designed by selgascanoSerpentine

"We sought a way to allow the public to experience architecture through simple elements: structure, light, transparency, shadows, lightness, form, sensitivity, change, surprise, colour and materials." selgascano

Serpentine Pavilion (2015-06-25) by Photograph © Iwan Baan and Designed by selgascanoSerpentine

Serpentine Pavilion (2015) by Photograph © Iwan Baan and Designed by selgascanoSerpentine

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From a grass lawn to an iridescent Pavilion - see how the 2015 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by selgascano, was constructed.

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