Sheltered by a curved canopy that spreads up and outward from a trunk of delicate steel columns, the 2017 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is modeled on the area beneath trees—spaces, according to its architect, Diébédo Francis Kéré, “where people can choose to gather, or enter, in different ways.”
The pavilion responds to the gallery’s sylvan setting in London’s Kensington Gardens, but was inspired by the shaded gathering places of the desert village in Burkina Faso where Kéré grew up, and where his Berlin-based studio continues to work extensively.
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