The author of the 2015 Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion will be SelgasCano

The main condition when selecting architects for the Serpentine Gallery's summer pavilion is that they must not have any realizations on British territory, which the authors of the upcoming installation easily fulfilled since the Madrid studio SelgasCano has not had many opportunities to realize buildings outside Spanish territory. At the same time, they are the first Spaniards to have the opportunity to realize the Serpentine Gallery pavilion. The project itself will be presented to the public in February next year, but based on previous realizations by SelgasCano, we can look forward to a colorful and translucent installation. At Thursday's press conference, where director Julia Peyton-Jones and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist presented the authors of the fifteenth summer pavilion of the Serpentine Gallery, the Madrid architectural duo José Selgas and Lucía Cano revealed two decisive aspects: the royal gardens in London and a single transparent material serving as a projection screen. Additionally, they enlisted the help of Scottish writer Sir James M. Barrie, from whose book Peter Pan they deduce that their design should also remain somewhere between dream and reality. The fifteenth summer pavilion will be accessible to visitors of Kensington Gardens from June 26 to October 18, 2015.

“This is an amazing and unique opportunity to work in a Royal Garden in the centre of London. Both aspects, ‘Garden’ and ‘London’, are very important for us in the development of this project. We are in the middle of a garden, a ‘Royal’ garden indeed, once divided in two and separated by a Serpentine. That garden clings in the middle of London. Garden and London (which best defines London?) will be the elements to show and develop in the Pavilion. For that we are going to use only one material as a canvas for both: the Transparency. That ‘material’ has to be explored in all its structural possibilities, avoiding any other secondary material that supports it, and the most advanced technologies will be needed to be employed to accomplish that transparency. A good definition for the pavilion can be taken from J. M. Barrie: it aims to be as a ‘Betwixt-and-Between’.”
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