Serpentine Pavilion "a great riddle" says architect Minsuk Cho | Dezeen

Architect Minsuk Cho discusses his design for this year's Serpentine Pavilion in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen for the Serpentine.
Cho is the founder and lead architect of Mass Studies, an architecture practice based in Seoul, South Korea. He is the 23rd architect to be chosen for the Serpentine commission, and the pavilion will be his first building in the UK.
"This request felt like we were given a great riddle to demonstrate what this pavilion can do at this point," Cho told Dezeen.
"We understand architecture itself is not a beginning-to-end narrative, but is part of a larger act that is in between many befores and afters" said Cho.
Named Archipelagic Void, the pavilion is set to take the form of five structures or "islands", arranged in a constellation around a central void. Each of the five structures will have a separate purpose, such as a tea house, auditorium and play tower.
Cho told Dezeen how he took reference from traditional Korean architecture when designing the pavilion, especially in the use of negative space. The architect told Dezeen how the central void connecting each of the separate structures was informed by Korean madang, small courtyards found in traditional Korean homes.
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Feels like a 2nd year uni project lol.

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everyone is faking it until they make it, welcome to reality. Where is your Pavilion?

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There is something incredibly obvious and hypocritical about this work. These are beautiful and expensive objects, telling the people paying for them what they already know. They express the tension inherent in how culture is created and consumed, as a sort of indulgence to forgive the sins of the society that funds it. There's no escaping, so might as well make a living holding up that mirror.

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I am the only one that thinks that this space doesnt tell anything?

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the void and the absence are really present!!!! hahahaha

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