A.1 Architecture as Discourse
PRECEDENTS
SERPENTINE PAVILION In 2002, Toyo Ito collaborated with Cecil Balmond to create the Serpentine Pavilion which has been called one of the most successful installations. This pavilion was placed next to the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park London7. As the Wyndham Gateway Project is also an installation the use of this project as a precedent gives validation to how projects do not have to be permanent to contribute to architectural discourse. Considering this pavilion as discourse not allows spectators to engage with its visual culture but allows them to appreciate the use of technology that aids in allowing the structure and facade to join together in an innovative manner and uniquely to become one holistic entity.
unambiguous, precise, list of simple operations applied mechanically and systematically to a set of tokens or object configurations, acts as the prime organizing agent such that as the square expands it is rotated simultaneously. The open interior exterior relationship in this installation is made possible because the panels between the lines range from solid to open to glazed. Despite the visual variation in the facade of the pavilion there is a sense of control which can be seen, this is due to the use of parametric modelling10. Together, Ito and Balmond managed to refine architectural thinking at the point in time as well as whatever architecture was to bring in the future, contributing to architectural discourse.
Ito and Balmond managed to use a random arrangement of intersecting triangular shapes or lines creating an underlying pattern. An algorithm, an
The concept of using a base grid and then distorting it like done in Ito’s Pavilion was seen again in Alvar Siza’s pavilion of 2005.
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