Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Zumthor has collaborated with Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf on the design of the 252sq m garden. This will be densely planted with over 30 varieties of
the world of noise and traffic and the smells of London - an interior space
shrubs, flowers and grasses, each chosen for its form, texture and color to emphasize the plants natural architecture and to evolve as the season changes.
within which to sit, to walk, to observe the flowers. The building acts as a stage, a backdrop .
Orthographic Drawings
Side Elevation Front Elevation
Section A-A
Section B-B
Floor Plan
Hierarchy
Subtraction
Circulation
Subtraction
Geometry
Section to plan
Light penetration
Massing
Sight
The exterior of the building appears to be a black clad box with six simple rectangular openings along with two of its edges. These openings open into apparent blackness, with no glimpse of the interior of the building from the outside. Visitors enter through doorways staggered along a set of exterior and interior walls, moving from the dark, shadowy hallway into a bright, flower-filled atrium that is open to the sky. Some of the plants were even chosen to add vertical accents and act as a screen, alternately obscuring and revealing activity on the opposite side of the atrium
Smell
The blooms selected are visually arresting, but not overly fragrant. Scent attracts bees and insects, so the designers really thought of scent as secondary part of the design.
Touch
The finish to the entire building, roof, walls, flooring are of a black tar like material with scrim to give added texture. This this resembles the mundane routines of people in their everyday lives, who would like to be whisked away to another setting.
Feel
The pavillion aims to bring nature back into human surroundings and provide the perfect opportunity for people to aims to help its audience take the time to relax, to observe and then, perhaps, start to talk again
Sound
One enters the building from the lawn and begins the transition into the central garden, a
place abstracted from the world of noise and traffic and the smells of London. The garden by landscape, which contrasts vividly with the sense of silence that is broken only by the buzz of insects and soft human whisperings