First Foreign Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Beijing
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The Serpentine Galleries will be expanding its popular summer pavilion program beyond the galleries’ Kensington Gardens home in London. The first foreign Serpentine Pavilion will be built in Beijing’s Forbidden City in the Dongcheng District. ThFirst Foreign Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Beijing
The Serpentine Galleries will be expanding its popular summer pavilion program beyond the galleries’ Kensington Gardens home in London. The first foreign Serpentine Pavilion will be built in Beijing’s Forbidden City in the Dongcheng District. The design of the pavilion is led by architect Liu Jiakun of the Chinese Studio JIAKUN Architects, which draws inspiration from the historical and social context of Beijing as well as from the history of Serpentine Pavilion Commission. The design features “an arched form that balances forces of tensions and compression,” noted Arch Daily.“JIAKUN Architects’ Serpentine Pavilion Beijing takes inspiration from Confucianism with an architecture that is a physical representation of the traditional pursuit of Junzi. The design is characterized by the figure of the Archer, in the form of a curved cantilever beam that incorporates the forces of elasticity through cables stretched between steel plates. Although modern architecture in Beijing has developed a series of powerful techniques to fight the external forces of fierce winds and unpredictable earthquakes, the Pavilion’s integral structures aims – like the Tai Chi Master – to conquer the harness of those forces with softness,” stated Serpentine Pavilion in a press release. Read more