First photo for this year serpentine wing In London designed by the Lebanese architect Lina Katmait was revealed.
Set to open to the public on Friday 9 June, the Pavilion in Kensington Park is a circular wooden structure containing a ‘concentric table’. Named after the table, the pavilion was designed as a space for exchange and celebration.
“The pavilion appears around this concentric table and allows people to come together,” Katma said in an exclusive video released by Dozen last week.
“[It’s] Named À table, which is a French call to meet around one table. “When you are little, your parents will tell you to come down and meet to eat, and to discuss.”
Ghatmeh is the 22nd architect to be commissioned for the Serpentine Pavilion since Zaha Hadid designed the first building in 2000.
The 2023 Pavilion has a timber frame with multiple gables radiating from its centre, which have been described as “reflecting the structures of tree leaves”. It is surrounded by a screen to create a semi-enclosed space and is wrapped in a portico.
“The structure is like a leaf,” Katma said. “If you look in a microscope at a leaf, if you were to see this major vein.”
The pavilion will be designed using a modular system and will be “disassembled and reassembled” after the summer installation.
More photos of the suite will be posted later today on Dezeen.
Ghatmeh is the latest serpentine pavilion to be built in Kensington Garden in central London. Followed last year Black ChapelDesigned by artist and designer Theaster Gates. The former Serpentine Pavilions were built by architects such as Frida EscobedoAnd Next to you, Engels And So Fujimoto.
French-Lebanese architect Ghatmeh leads the Paris-based architecture studio Lina Katmeh – Architecture. Ha Stone Garden Building In Beirut Architectural Project of the Year at the Dezeen Awards 2021 And a cat too I spoke to Dezeen about how work in the city has changed Since the devastating explosion in 2020.
Image by Iwan Baan, courtesy of Serpentine Galleries.