Interactive Serpentine Pavilion from Bjarke Ingels Group in 3D
Each year the Serpentine Gallery commissions an Architect to design a pavilion greeting the hundreds of thousands of people who will visit during the summer months. Temporary pavilions like this are an important opportunity for Architects to test new ideas and to communicate to the public what architecture is and could be.
Unless you’re in London, you may not get the opportunity to visit the pavilion physically, but thanks to the web we can take you there virtually:
Lean back and enjoy the tour or interact with the model using the controls.
The 2016 Serpentine pavilion, designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group, is a complex sculptural form that can be constructed using simple geometric rules. The repetitive brick geometry embodies the playful spirit of Lego and Minecraft. As a whole, the structure comes together with the calculation and precision of an algorithm.
Web technologies were used for modelling in combination with these simple rules: start with a brick, reuse the brick to create a wall, ‘unzip’ the wall so that its base follows a curve. Building a model by defining rules allows us to change the components of the wall, the height of the bricks, the shape of the curve, in the end generating a new unique Serpentine pavilion without tediously remodelling everything. Modelling this way is powerful, with a few changes we can explore the infinite possibilities of the wall system.
We encourage you to design the most beautiful wall the Serpentine has ever seen. Open the model in full screen mode, click on the Architecture symbol, disable Realistic Lighting, and start dragging the wall elements.
Learn more about the project here. This article is also featured in Dezeen and Archdaily.
