Each year , the opening of theSerpentine Pavilionheralds the beginning of summertime with a temporary structure installed in a London garden . This class , the marquee was designed byBjarke Ingels , the Danish superstar designer who was recently brought onboard todesign Hyperloop One stations . depend on where you stand , it ’s either a very convincing take on a contemporary Minecraft cathedral , or a fancy New business firm for Q*bert .
Ingels ’ imagination for the marquee was an “ unzipped ” batch of blocks . He work with a furniture fabricator to design a regular hexahedron out of translucent fiberglass that could be staggered and bolted together ( which is kind ofhis thing ) . The manner they made the cube is a method call “ pultrusion ” where fibreglass is pulled through a mold to keep the fibers in the resin perfectly straight , resulting in a very strong object . Which means the structure is stalwart enough to climb on , but you may only go as high as a conducting wire that politely indicate ok that ’s high enough , give thanks you .
If the first affair you think when look at this is that it looks on the dot like Minecraft , well , even Ingels said it himself :
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It ’s actually pretty amazing to see how different the structure looks from different angles .
From one side , it looks like a honeycombfor robot bee .
From another slant it ’s a double-dyed rectangle , with the cubes refract and reflect the landscape into an almost disco bollock - like airfoil .
And sometimes it looks like a pixelated limestone canon .
Inside , floor and furniture made from the same fibreglass material will serve as a space for execution and events . The marquee is open until October 9 .
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