This summer as you’re cruising down the A12 passing the artsy digs of Hackney Wick you will see the latest pop-up structure to hit London. Folly For a Flyover is a 5-week project starting on the 24th of June, in conjunction with the Barbican, which will be playing host to an open-air cinema and performance space.

Working with the now established trend of reworking disused spaces, it’s all taking place under a flyover next to the canal. We’ve been enjoying this DIY approach of bringing art to the forgotten corners of the city.  It’s been seen across London with Hannah Barry’s Bold Tendencies 5 taking over a once disused multi-storey carpark at the end of June and projects like Wasted Spaces making the most of the recession’s output of disused shops.

We think the project has great implications for bringing the artistic community together, and we love seeing unused spaces revamped and made social. Taking inspiration from the buildings of Hackney Wick volunteers are building the whole structure using recycled and donated materials from the local area, much like the folks at Practice Architecture.

During the day the project will open as a café with a daily changing menu. The café will be stocked by local businesses to promote this exciting area of the city ready for the Olympic invasion next year. Folly For a Flyover will be running workshops in puppet-making and optical trickery from the temporary structure, and for the nautically inclined there will even been some specially made boats to take a trip on to explore the local waterways.

Check out photos from the event (via Dezeen) here: