Can you see me? I’m standing in one of the four Summer Houses that is an extension of the annual Serpentine Architecture Programme.
This is Summer House “in-the-round” – constructed in plywood and timber – and when I am sitting in it, I completely blend into the deign! 
“In-the-round” is organised as four structural bands beginning at bench level – 
going all the way up to a tree-like canopy. 
It is designed by Frank Barlow and Regine Leiblinger and is reminiscent of a blind contour drawing (a drawing executed without lifting the pencil up from the paper and only looking at the subject.)
The next Summer House is an inverse replica of Queen Caroline’s Temple 
(which is in the background) – “a tribute to its robust form, space and material recomposed into new sculptural object.“
The artist is Kunlé Adeyemi from Nigeria.
Complete contrast to the solid forms is Yona Friedman’s “Space-Chain” structure – which consists of 30 cubes built of metal rings. It is “a modular structure that can be assembled and disassembled in different formations and builds upon the architect’s pioneering project La Ville Spatiale (Spatial City) begun in the late 1950s.”
And if we wanted to we can run through them – a bit like Agility.
The next Summer House by Asif Khan is WOW! We like this one the best. 
It looks like an undulating line of timber staves structure might have grown out of the ground.
I went to have a closer look 
and to experience sitting in the midst of the structure
I rather liked sitting in the middle of it!
And Mummy liked taking a photo of me sitting there on the polished metal platform! 🙂
May’s comment: The four Summer Houses is an extension of the Serpentine’s Architecture Programme. The various structures have been inspired by the nearby Queen Caroline’s Temple, a classical style summer house, built in 1734. For the longest time I didn’t know what it was, to be honest.
All the architects for the Serpentine summer architecture programme are chosen based on the fact that they have yet to build a permanent building in England!
The Serpentine Pavilion and the Summer Houses are open to the public till the 9 October 2016.
