Announced this morning, the 2018 MPavilion, arriving in spring of this year, will be designed by the award-winning Carme Pinós. Now in its fifth iteration, the MPavilion is Australia's answer to the U.K's Serpentine Pavilion. An initiative of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, the design event commissions a leading international architect to erect a new temporary pavilion in Melbourne’s historic Queen Victoria Gardens every year. Past participating architects include Rem Koolhaas & David Gianotten of OMA, Bijoy Jain, Amanda Levete, and Sean Godsell.

The Spanish architect responsible for this year's forthcoming pavilion is internationally celebrated for her humanistic approach to designs ranging from cultural centers, educational institutions and public housing to office towers, urban landscapes and furniture design. Based in Barcelona, Pinós leads her eponymous architectural firm which she founded in 1991 after earning international recognition for her work with Enric Miralles. Significant works include the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria), the Cube II Towers in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), and the metro station Zona Universitària and the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery, both in Barcelona.

“It is my honor and pleasure to have this opportunity to design a new pavilion for the Naomi Milgrom Foundation," Pinós said of the commission. "It is a great responsibility to create a unique place in this special park with views over Melbourne a city to which I have deep attachments. I am inspired by the fact that this new project will become a cultural destination for the city."

Designs for the 2018 MPavilion have yet to be revealed, but Pinós told The Australian Financial Review during a recent site visit in Melbourne that "the pavilion is going to be very sensitive to the changes of the nature." She confides that we can expect a transparent origami-like structure that will be fully immersive, and changing every 10 minutes. "If it's sunny, it's going to be completely different, if it's cloudy, if it rains...I want to offer an experience. Not only a room, not only a space – more than that," she added.

Check out our interview with Pinós from last year, when the leading architect was honored with the 2016 Neutra Award for Professional Excellence.