In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen, Sumayya Vally of Counterspace explains how her design for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion references the architecture of London’s migrant communities.
She described the pavilion as “a puzzle of many different elements” informed by buildings used by migrant groups across London.
In addition, five architectural “fragments” have been dotted around the city to bring the project directly to local communities.
Vally, director of Johannesburg practice Counterspace, is the 20th and youngest architect to have been commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery for its annual architecture pavilion, which was unveiled this morning in London’s Kensington Gardens.
“I became really interested in places with a history significant to migration – small spaces that birthed community and that have held forms of cultural production over time,” Vally explained in the video.
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