The Serpentine Pavilion 2015 in the heart of London's Hyde Park and Kensington Garden offers a memorable sensory experience revolving around colour and creativity. Every summer sees the unveiling of a newly designed pavilion, which is essential viewing for professional architects and lovers of architecture, and this year's creation was designed by Selgascano.
Now in its 15th year, the Serpentine Gallery's Summer Pavilion - the temporary attraction in the garden in front of the famous gallery - will take on the colours of the rainbow, offering visitors a journey through the emotions with a chromotherapeutic slant, covering 264 square metres (with interior space of 179 square metres).
This year's installation consists of a metal structure covered with a membrane of translucent, multi-coloured material, giving it a chrysalis-like appearance. It also comprises a series of fluorescent plastic panels, interwoven to form a framework. When illuminated at night, the installation glows in an array of bright colours of distinct pop art origin.
Visitors can enter and exit the pavilion at various points, passing through a "secret corridor", which connects the inside and outside of the structure. The installation was designed by the young Spanish architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano of the firm Selgascano, founded in 1998 in Madrid, which also designed pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in 2009.
