BIG founder Bjarke Ingels has unveiled his Serpentine Gallery Pavilion ? a wall of translucent blocks that has been "unzipped" to create a curving, cavernous interior.

Described by the Danish architect as "both transparent and opaque, both solid box and blob", this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed as a simple wall that has been distorted into a more freeform shape.

Viewed side-on, the pavilion is rectangular. But when seen from the front or at an angle, its curving silhouette is revealed. It also changes from opaque to see-through, depending on the viewing angle.

"We liked this idea that, quite often, interesting things happen when you change seemingly incompatible elements and you combine them into a new hybrid ? we call it BIGamy!" said Ingels, who founded BIG in 2005, and has completed projects including an underground maritime museum and an apartment block with a figure-of-eight plan.
The structure is located outside the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens. It is made up of translucent fibreglass frames, stacked on top of each other in a typical brickwork pattern.

Read more on Dezeen: http://www.dezeen.com/2016/06/07/bjarke-ingels-big-serpentine-gallery-pavilion-london-translucent-blocks-unzipped-wall/

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