Serpentine Pavilion 2020 in London

This year's Serpentine Pavilion, marking the 20th anniversary of the Serpentine Gallery initiative, will be designed by architects from Johannesburg-based Counterspace studio Amina Kaskar, Sumayya Vally and Sarah de Villiers.

Counterspace studio, which has been run since 2015 by a team of three female architects, was selected to design Serpentine Pavilion this year. All were born in 1990 and are the youngest pavilion designers ever.

Pictured: Amina Kaskar, Sumayya Vally and Sarah de Villiers, architects at the Counterspace studio

Photo: Justice Mukheli, Johannesburg, 2020 © Counterspace

The temporary pavilion in London's Kensington Gardens Park will be built using, among other things, cork and K-Briqmodules - unfired bricks made from ninety percent construction and demolition waste.

As Sumayya Vally, one of the project's authors, points out, the pavilion is planned as an event. The structure will contain small moving parts that will be moved to several London neighborhoods. With community programs organized in different parts of the city, the individual pieces will return to the structure, completing it over the summer.

This year's pavilion will be on view in London from June 11 to October 11 this year.

Serpentine Pavilion 2020, design: Counterspace, interior visualization

© Counterspace

London's Serpentine gallery has been commissioning the most prominent architects to create a temporary open-air pavilion in Kensington Gardens Park for the past twenty years. Each year the project is entrusted to authors who, at the time of commissioning this task, had not yet realized any concept of their own in England.

You can read about last year's pavilion designed by Junya Ishigami here.

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Source: Serpentine Gallery
Illustrations courtesy of Serpentine Gallery