Quest’anno
il Padiglione Serpentine sarà ideato dall’ architetto cileno Smiljan Radic. Si
tratta del quattordicesimo architetto che accetta l'invito a progettare un
padiglione temporaneo davanti alla Serpentine Gallery nei Kensington Gardens.
Il
suo progetto segue la struttura di Cloud-like di Sou Fujimoto che è stata
visitata da circa 200.000 persone nel 2013 e fu uno dei padiglioni più visitati
di sempre, sarà un’ispirazione romantica, una “follie” ospitale di gusto quasi
settecentesco.
Occuperà
quasi 350 metri quadrati sul verde prato della Serpentine Gallery, una serie di
piani a formare una struttura cilindrica semi -trasparente, il progetto
assomiglierà ad una conchiglia, che poggia su grandi pietre di cava. Questo
lavoro ha le sue radici nel precedente lavoro dell'architetto, ispirato alla
storia del Gigante Egoista di Oscar Wilde, nel famoso Mestizo, che in parte è
sostenuto da grandi strutture a forma di massi.
Il
Pavilion è concepito come uno spazio sociale flessibile con una caffetteria. Tutti
i venerdì sera, tra luglio e settembre, il Padiglione sarà il palcoscenico per le
Notti del Parco, una rassegna di eventi site-specific che uniscono arte ,
poesia, musica, cinema , letteratura e teoria , tra cui tre nuovi commissioni
di artisti emergenti Lina Lapelyte , Hannah Perry e Heather Phillipson .
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Serpentine
Pavilion 2014 designed by Smiljan Radic
Chilean
architect Smiljan Radic has designed the fourteenth Serpentine Pavilion which
will open in June.
Radic
is the fourteenth architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary
Pavilion outside the entrance to the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens.
His design follows Sou Fujimoto’s cloud-like structure which was visited by
almost 200,000 people in 2013 and was one of the most visited Pavilions
to-date.
Occupying
a footprint of some 350 square metres on the lawn of the Serpentine Gallery,
plans depict a semi-translucent, cylindrical structure, designed to resemble a
shell, which rests on large quarry stones. This work has its roots in the
architect’s earlier work, particularly The Castle of the Selfish Giant,
inspired by the Oscar Wilde story and the Restaurant Mestizo - part of which is
supported by large boulders.
The
2014 Pavilion is designed as a flexible, multi-purpose social space with a café
sited inside. Visitors will be encouraged to enter and interact with the
Pavilion in different ways throughout its four month tenure in the Park. On
selected Friday nights, between July and September, the Pavilion will become
the stage for the Galleries’ Park Nights series, sponsored by COS: eight
site-specific events bringing together art, poetry, music, film, literature and
theory and including three new commissions by emerging artists Lina Lapelyte,
Hannah Perry and Heather Phillipson.
Smiljan
Radic has completed the majority of his structures in Chile. His commissions
range from public buildings, such as the Civic Neighbourhoods, Concepción,
Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago, Restaurant Mestizo, Santiago, and
the Vik Winery, Millahue, and domestic buildings, such as Copper House 2,
Talca, Pite House, Papudo, and the House for the Poem of the Right Angle, Vilches,
to small and seemingly fragile buildings, such as the Extension to Charcoal
Burner's House, Santa Rosa, The Wardrobe and the Mattress, Tokyo, Japan, and
The Bus Stop Commission, Kumbranch, Austria.
Considerate
of social conditions, environments and the materials in which he works with,
the work of Smiljan Radic moves freely across boundaries, avoiding any specific
categorisation within one field of architecture. His versatility enables him to
respond to the demands of each setting, whether that is the spatial constraints
of an urban site or the extreme challenges presented by a remote rural setting,
mountainous terrain or the rocky coastline of his native Chile.
AECOM
will again provide engineering and technical design services as it did for the
first time in 2013. In addition, AECOM will also be acting as cost and project
manager for the 2014 Pavilion. While this is the second Serpentine Galleries
Pavilion for AECOM, its global chief executive for building engineering, David
Glover, has worked on the designs for a majority of the pavilions to date. The
Serpentine Galleries are delighted that J.P. Morgan Private Bank are the
co-headline sponsor of this year’s Pavilion.
Smiljan
Radic, designer of the 14th Serpentine Pavilion, said:
“The
Serpentine 2014 Pavilion is part of the history of small romantic constructions
seen in parks or large gardens, the so-called follies, which were hugely
popular from the end of the 16th Century to the start of the 19th. Externally,
the visitor will see a fragile shell suspended on large quarry stones. This
shell, white, translucent and made of fibreglass, will house an interior
organised around an empty patio, from where the natural setting will appear
lower, giving the sensation that the entire volume is floating. At night,
thanks to the semi-transparency of the shell, the amber tinted light will
attract the attention of passers-by like lamps attracting moths.”
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Smiljan
Radic Clarke was born in Santiago de Chile in 1965. He studied at the Catholic
University of Chile's School of Architecture, where he graduated in 1989.
Later, he studied at the Institutto di Architettura di Vezia, Italy. After
travelling for three years, he opened his own practice in Santiago in 1995. In
2001 he was named ‘Best under 35 year old architect’ by the Chile College of
Architects, and in 2009 he was appointed as an honourary member of the American
Institute of Architects, USA. Smiljan Radic has lectured extensively and has
mounted several architecture exhibitions on his work, including in 2013 - The
Wardrobe and the Mattress, Hermes Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Bus Stop for Krumbach,
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; Ilustraciones, Galeria AFA, Santiago; in 2012 - An
Orange Tree Noise at the Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan and in
2010 Global Ends, Ma Gallery in Tokyo, 2010, and People Meet in Architecture,
with sculptor Marcela Correa at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition
in Venice. Smiljan Radic has won numerous contests such the Regional Theatre
(Concepción, 2011) and the Telecomunication Tower (Santiago, 2014). His work
has been published in several architecture journals and monographs, the most
recent being El Croquis N° 167, Madrid, Spain. He currently lives and works in
Chile.
