A travelling pavilion becomes Tirana’s public room
Reja looks partly solid and partly transparent as someone walks around it. Its steel grid makes an enclosure without cutting off the street. Originally a temporary Serpentine pavilion in London, the structure was moved to Tirana, where its open form can support sitting and public events.
AL AlbaniaIn practice. Sou Fujimoto’s steel-grid pavilion found a new civic setting in Tirana after its London installation.
What to keep in view
Check local listings for events. The photographed pavilion is the installation in Tirana.
The next site changes the use
Steps and transparent surfaces give the frame several edges to occupy. Reinstalling it in a new civic setting changed who could encounter it as part of their daily route. The pavilion is useful as a place precisely because people can pass through it, pause nearby or gather around it.
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