Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) has been selected to design the 2025 Serpentine Pavilion. The practice founded by Tabassum, a Bangladeshi architect and educator, in 1995, is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Marina Tabassum Architectss pavilion will be titled A Capsule in Time. The elongated design is axially aligned with Serpentine Souths bell tower. It was inspired by the tradition of park-going and arched garden canopies that filter soft daylight through green foliage, a project description stated. A Capsule in Time will consist of four wooden capsule forms. Those forms will each have a translucent facade that diffuses and dapples light. One of the four capsule forms, Tabassum said, will be able to move, making the pavilion partially reconfigurable. The architect shared that the pavilion will have a strong temporal dimension.When conceiving our design, we reflected on the transient nature of the commission which appears to us as a capsule of memory and time, Tabassum continued. The relationship between time and architecture is intriguing: between permanence and impermanence, of birth, age and ruin; architecture aspires to outlive time.The elongated design is axially aligned with Serpentine Souths bell tower. ( Marina Tabassum Architects/Courtesy Serpentine)Serpentine Galleries CEO Bettina Korek and artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist said in a joint statement MTAs design harkens back to the 2006 Serpentine Pavilion by Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond with Arup, namely in its kinetics and levitating component. Tabassum went on to note that A Capsule in Time is not only temporally charged, but its also rooted in place, and is very much informed by matrimonial practices.In the Bengal delta, architecture is ephemeral as dwellings change locations with the rivers shifting courses. Architecture becomes memories of the lived spaces continued through tales, Tabassum elaborated. The archaic volume of a half capsule, generated by geometry and wrapped in light semi-transparent material will create a play of filtered light that will pierce through the structure as if under a Shamiyana at a Bengali wedding.The semi-enclosed facade will diffuse and dapple light. ( Marina Tabassum Architects/Courtesy Serpentine)Tabassum seeks to build a unique platform under the summer sun to unite as people rich in diversity. Public programming will include between three and six events, the Serpentine Gallery said.Renderings shared of Tabassums design show the interior of the cylindrical structure lined with wood benches and the transparent quality of the walls. Other visualizations depict the dappling effect of the structure, cast both in its interiors and on the grass surroudning it. A tree will be located in the center of the pavilion as an expansion and connection to the park landscape just outside. Inside, the pavilions semi-enclosed nature appears to create a cavernous or tunnel-like effect that is broken up by the intentional gaps located at the existing pathways that connect the park to Serpentine Gallery. A Capsule in Time debuts on June 6. It will stay open through October 26. For the 11th year in a row, Serpentine Pavilion is supported by Goldman Sachs.This year is the Serpentine Pavilions 24th anniversary. Korean architect Minsuk Cho designed last years Serpentine Pavilion, Archipelagic Void. Similar to Tabassum, Cho opted to showcase design elements from his home country, debuting an open courtyard typology found in traditional Korean houses.