A rather peculiar building has appeared next to a canal in Hackney Wick, London. Just outside the future Olympics site, and shoehorned beneath the underpass of the A12 highway, “Folly for a Flyover” is the work of Assemble, a young collective of designers, artists and architects. The red brick structure — with a roof that peaks out between the eastbound and westbound lanes of highway above — was constructed by volunteers from reclaimed and donated materials. On the weekends the Folly houses a cafe, workshops and performances. Adventurous visitors can rent handmade rowboats from a small dock on the canal. In the evenings coach factory store, from Friday to Sunday, there is a bar and an adjacent auditorium space underneath the highway coach factory store, which hosts a series of screenings curated by the Barbican Art Gallery as part of its current exhibition “Watch Me Move: The Animation Show.”
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Assemble came together in 2010 coach factory store, motivated by the need to break away from the formal language and processes of architectural practice. Its first project was the transformation of a derelict garage on Clerkenwell Road in central London into a temporary cinema, “The Cineroleum.” The Folly is more ambitious — and more public. It came into being thanks to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Create Art Award — set up to support participatory art projects — and will no doubt give people a new perspective on this underused and underappreciated location.
Assemble“Folly for a Flyover,” located beneath the A12 highway in London, acts as a cafe as well as a venue for local artists.
Nina PopeStudio Weave and Somewhere finish the Floating Cinema’s construction. It will be moored at Folly for a Flyover on July 9, prepared with a full day of programming.
Another canal-side project popping up this summer is the “Floating Cinema”. Designed by the architects Studio Weave (who also designed the very long bench in the seaside town of Littlehampton) and the artist duo Somewhere (Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie), the cinema-on-a-boat will travel around London with a program of intimate on-board screenings as well as larger, outdoor waterside events.
And, in a beautiful moment of synchronicity, the “Floating Cinema” will be moored next to “Folly for a Flyover” on July 9, with a full day of programming.
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