In this exclusive Dezeen movie, Mexican architect Frida Escobedo explains why she used stacks of roofing tiles to create this year's Serpentine Pavilion.
Escobedo's pavilion, which was unveiled outside the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London, this week, is a secluded courtyard framed by latticed walls made from grey concrete roofing tiles.

"We wanted to have a fresh idea for the pavilion but that would also speak about we do at the office on an everyday basis," Escobedo says in the movie, which Dezeen filmed at the Serpentine Pavilion 2018 press preview on 11 June 2018.
"We usually work with simple materials ? industrial materials ? and we try to create more sophisticated forms or arrangements with them. It's not about super expensive finishes, it's about what you can create with simple things."
Escobedo stacked the UK-manufactured tiles in an alternating pattern to create a celosía ? a type of perforated wall common in Mexican architecture.

"Just rearranging this industrially produced concrete tile creates a kind of weave that will let the sun and the light come in," she explains.
"This is very common in Mexico because of the weather, but actually it works beautifully in the gardens because you can see the green filtering into the darker space that is the pavilion."

The concrete tile walls frame a rectangular courtyard ? another common feature of Mexican residential architecture.
The courtyard features a triangul...