LANZA Atelier crafts a structure that transcends the ephemeral condition of the temporary installation to become a tactile meditation on place, material, and memory, proposing a brick serpentine wall that flows across the lawn like a cartographic gesture made solid, invoking the very name of the neighbouring lake while subtly echoing the romantic irregularity of English garden design, where nature is not tamed but orchestrated through calculated curvature; the pavilion employs a constructive logic of minimalism and resonance, using fewer bricks than a rectilinear wall thanks to the stability provided by its undulating form, an act of structural intelligence that aligns architectural performance with ecological discretion, establishing an enveloping spatial rhythm punctuated by timber stools, a delicate gridded canopy, and filtered daylight, yielding an interior that breathes quietly under the trees as a shelter, a salon, a void to be filled with human presence and cultural exchange; as a case study, the juxtaposition between the soft topography of the red-brick folds and the strict rationality of the white steel roof trusses creates a frictional harmony that mirrors the relationship between tradition and experimentation in contemporary architecture, particularly within Mexican spatial practice which the duo—Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo—have been carefully cultivating since 2015; thus, the pavilion is not only a structure but a temporal imprint, a sensitive intervention that invites contemplation through its embodied poetics of curvature, responding not only to geography and materiality but also to the social rituals of gathering, rest, and dialogue, making it a deeply civic gesture within the cultural fabric of London’s Kensington Gardens.
