{"id":237796,"date":"2024-09-16T07:29:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=canvasflow&p=237796"},"modified":"2024-09-16T07:29:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:29:53","slug":"mass-studies-designs-2024-serpentine-pavilion","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/mass-studies-designs-2024-serpentine-pavilion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Studies Looks To The Void For London’s Latest Serpentine Pavilion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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September 16, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Wilson Barlow<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Roland Halbe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mass Studies Looks To The Void For London’s Latest Serpentine Pavilion<\/h1>\n\n\n

For two decades, <\/em>London\u2019s Serpentine Pavilion, the summer installation commissioned annually to a different architect, has drawn throngs of attendees\u2014some 1 million in recent years. So it was particularly unusual that when Minsuk Cho visited in 2005, when \u00c1lvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura had designed it, he found himself totally alone with the structure, reflecting on the nature of that particular public space. \u201cIt offered a spectrum of experiences,\u201d the architect recalls thinking, \u201cfrom quiet introspection to exhilarating collective moments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was two years after Cho had founded his firm, Mass Studies, in his hometown of Seoul, South Korea. And it\u2019s now that his Archipelagic Void<\/em> is the Serpentine Pavilion 2024, providing its own range of experiences via a starlike structure with a 26-foot-diameter empty space at its center. Radiating off it are five semi-enclosed structures, or \u201cislands,\u201d in locally sourced Douglas fir, each a different shape and hub for activity\u2014the diversity making Cho\u2019s creation unique from previous, which typically were one distinct atmosphere. \u201cThis is more like a cinematic montage,\u201d he says. There\u2019s climbable netting in the Play Tower; a Tea House, referencing the adjacent Serpentine Gallery\u2019s original use; and the Gallery, with an immersive sound installation by musician and fellow South Korean Jang Young-Gyu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, it\u2019s the courtyards of hanoks, <\/em>traditional Korean homes, and their function as a gathering place that inspired Archipelagic Void<\/em>\u2019s <\/em>open-air core. \u201cIt\u2019s an inversion of the usual configuration,\u201d Cho explains\u2014and his contribution to the shared spaces that are so essential to urban fabric. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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