Comments on: SANAA’s Serpentine Pavillion Design First Image

By: observer

observer — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:23:40 +0000

where’s odris??? I hear he changed his picture! miss those insightful comments…

By: Lucas Gray

Lucas Gray — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:20:05 +0000

More renderings and some detail drawings would be appreciated to get a better feel for this. Their work has been so great in the past I will give them the benefit of the doubt here. Depending on the curves and form of the piece there could be really interesting reflections from above and below – perhaps distorting the surrounding gardens and ever changing sky above.

By: Mario Gonzaga

Mario Gonzaga — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:40:53 +0000

have you ever seen niemeyer’s ibirapuera park or pampulha?

By: fl!p

fl!p — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:40:16 +0000

Fino,

Your right, that’s why they issued an aerial perspective.I was expecting something different from them. I hope they will veer away from the design of rolex learning center. But its an initial design, it will change, hopefully..

By: gian

gian — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:46:06 +0000

bo? ungettable!

By: drrlavoar

drrlavoar — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:41:56 +0000

aluminium crap

By: Fino

Fino — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:01:59 +0000

The vision sounds great, but, how would one experience this “melting in the surroundings” on ground level? Seems to me that one would only see this at a higher level, or at a distance from the pavilion. I guess, i’m more interested of what happens underneath the canopy. Is it reflective underneath? If so, this would be an elogated flattened version of Anish Kapoor’s “Cloudgate”. If any Londoners have never been to Chicago to see this thing, then they will be in for a treat for what this type of material, when molded, can do.

I guess I have to wait and see when this is done. We all know how illusive renderings are.

that is all