Sou Fujimoto Serpentine Pavilion Intervention by UVA

Over the years the designs have come from architects and artist as Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei in 2012, Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA in 2009 or Rem Koolhaas in 2006.

Intervention by UVA. Serpentine Pavilion by Sou Fujimoto. Image courtesy of UVA.

This year, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (who at 41 become the youngest to accept the invitation) designed a large and latticed structure of 20mm steel poles with a lightweight and semi-transparent appearance that allow it to blend, cloud-like, into the landscape and against the classical backdrop of the Gallery's colonnaded East wing, covering an area of 350 square-metres.

This year, the Serpentine Gallery commissioned to the London-based United Visual Artists [UVA] transformed Sou Fujimoto’s Pavilion to create a network of LED lights that to bring a cloud-like structure to life with an electrical storm. At night the structure becomes an electrified geometric cloud that flashes and pulsates with light. The installation is further enhanced by an accompanied soundtrack of precisely timed soundbites including the buzzing of electrical plants, effectively creating an auditory effect of thunder.

Commissioned by Serpentine Gallery for the Serpentine Summer Party, 26th June 2013.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013, designed by Sou Fujimoto.

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Sou Fujimoto

Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido, Japan, on August 4, 1971. He graduated in architecture from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Engineering in 1994. He established his own architectural practice, Sou Fujimoto Architects, in Tokyo in 2000, and has been a professor at Kyoto University since 2007.

He came to international attention in 2005 when he won the renowned AR – International Architectural Review Awards in the Young Architect category, an award he received three consecutive years, the first in 2006.

In 2008, he won the JIA (Japan Institute of Architects) Award and the World Architecture Festival Award in the Private Houses section. In 2009, Wallpaper magazine awarded him its design award. Sou Fujimoto published "The Primitive Future" in 2008, one of the best-selling architectural books of that year. His architectural projects always seek new forms and spaces between nature and artifice.

Published on: September 1, 2013

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