“Bigamy” in architecture, at least according to the Copenhagen-based Bjarke Ingels Group, means the combination of diametrically opposed parts. “Quite often, interesting things happen when you take seemingly incompatible elements and you combine them into a new hybrid,” Ingels said last month at the unveiling of his firm’s design for the Serpentine Pavilion, a temporary structure commissioned each summer by London’s Serpentine Gallery to grace the front lawn of Kensington Gardens.
For the 2016 pavilion, BIG’s design uses modular elements to create organic shapes: 1,802 elongated composite fiberglass frames are stacked to form two enclosing walls that are pushed outward or “unzipped,” as the Danish architect likes to say, to create a contoured, cavernous interior filled with simple geometric seating and a sculptural exterior.
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