The 2006 Serpentine Pavilion will be defined by events and activities:
• From the urban event of the balloon -the visitor with intimations of novelty- descends into the site;
• Through the amphitheatre, where attention is not on the space or surrounding structure but on the focal point, the location of spectacle;
• To the encircling array of cavities, each containing an informal activity, where attention lies neither on the architecture nor formal event but rather between individuals.
In the Serpentine Gallery individuals become isolated in the    solitary contemplation of art and discourse is minimised as the space emphasises the objects that it displays – the already-mades. However, in the Pavilion we are proposing a space, whose organisation facilitates the inclusion of individuals in communal dialogue and shared experience; where discourse is maximised as the space emphasises the events that it contains – the in-the-making.
The cubic void above the Pavilion's amphitheatre and the exhibition space in the Gallery will both carry works by the artist Thomas Demand. Through this we will introduce dialectically both the geometry of the Gallery and its mode of inert observation into the ethereality of our event space; conversely we will bring the event into the solemnity of the exhibition space.
The two spaces; Gallery and Pavilion – the two opposing complementaries – are finally brought together along a processional strip that runs through the Serpentine Gallery, the Pavilion and finally, descends to rejoin Kensington Gardens on the lawn.