Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh is set to create a timber pavilion sheltering a low circular table for next year's Serpentine Pavilion.
Announced as the architect of the 22nd commission today, Ghotmeh's À table pavilion will be installed in London's Kensington Gardens in June 2023.
"À table is an invitation to dwell together, in the same space and around the same table," said Ghotmeh.
"It is an encouragement to enter into a dialogue, to convene and to think about how we could reinstate and re-establish our relationship to nature and the Earth."
Lina Ghotmeh (above) will design next year's Serpentine Pavilion (top)
Constructed with a timber frame, the pavilion will be topped with a roof with multiple gables that radiate out from its centre, which was described as "echoing the structures of tree leaves". A colonnade will surround the pavilion with translucent walls semi-enclosing a central space that will contain a low circular table.
"In today's changing times, this pavilion offers a celebratory space," Ghotmeh said. "It is endowed with a table, around which we will sit together in a modest, low structure and in an atmosphere reminiscent of toguna huts of the Dogon people in Mali, West Africa, designed to bring all members of a community together in discussion," she continued.
"Here we can eat, work, play, meet, talk, rethink, and decide."
The pavilion contains a low table
Ghotmeh hopes that the pavilion will foc...