Serpentine Pavilion 2015

The fifteenth summer pavilion for the gallery was designed by a Spanish practice. It is an amorphous, double-skinned, polygonal structure of translucent, multicoloured panels of fluorine-based polymer, woven through and wrapped like webbing.

Visitors can enter and leave at several points, passing through a hidden corridor between the outer and inner skins before reaching the colourful interior.

The idea came not only from the site but from the way people move through the city, above all the underground railway with its many layers of chaotic yet structured flow.

By day, sunlight through the coloured skin fills the space with shifting tones. At night, lit from within, the pavilion glows across the lawn.