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Junya Ishigami (photo: Tasuko Amada)


The latest incarnation of London’s Serpentine Gallery is a celebration of slate.


Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, celebrated for his experimental structures that interpret traditional architectural form combined with natural elements, has created this year’s Serpentine Pavilion in London.


Ishigami’s design takes inspiration from roofs, the most common architectural feature used around the


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world. The design is made by arranging slates to create a single canopy roof that appears to emerge from the ground of the surrounding park. Within the interior of the Pavilion is an enclosed cave- like space. For Ishigami, the Pavilion articulates his ‘free space’ philosophy in which he seeks harmony between man- made structures and those that already exist in nature.


Describing his design, Ishigami said: “My design for the Pavilion plays with our perspectives of the built environment against


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the backdrop of a natural landscape, emphasising a natural and organic feel as though it had grown out of the lawn, resembling a hill made out of rocks.


“Possessing the weighty presence of slate roofs seen around the world, and simultaneously appearing so light it could blow away in the breeze, the cluster of scattered rock levitates, like a billowing piece of fabric.”


The Serpentine Pavilion has become an annual project in which a world-


renowned architect is tasked with creating their first built structure in England. The first was by Zaha Hadid in 2000 and past buildings have been designed by Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Toyo Ito and Daniel Libeskind.


This year’s Pavilion is open 10am – 6pm daily until 6 October. d


Contacts


Junya Ishigami + Associates / jnyi.jp Serpentine Gallery / serpentinegalleries.org


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