Shanghai Guide

UK Pavilion in 2010 Shanghai World Expo

Dandelion for UK Pavilion

Britain is the home of the World Expo, the first time the World Expo held in London in 1851, in the previous Expo, the UK's performance is a focus of attention.

Theme: "Let nature into the city." Design team from the Heatherwick design, like a shining box, located in Expo Zone C Area. Britain's biggest highlight of the museum building outside more than 60,000 in all directions of the tentacles, each tentacle contains an LED light-emitting diode, to help tentacles to form changing the luster and color, light and shadow to create a breathtaking feast at night.
 
Design:

Island Pavilion is an abstract of the lake and the island's public parks. Island Hall on behalf of living in the island nation. The design is full of vitality and creativity highlighted national aspirations of prosperity, this need to maintain the formation of life for many years and harmonious relationship with nature.

Cultural connection, this exhibition by the British on urban construction and development experience, reflect the British and far in Shanghai city life. The design expresses a positive view of the external to the entire Shanghai, internal to the activities of the Centre Hall area.

This program contains eight relatively independent but interrelated tree structure, showing the modern British non-parallel and the convergence of innovative activities with each other. British public will be invited to provide stories and relevant experience. By then, the Expo site, visitors can interact with the Chinese to build a unique platform for dialogue in the British people.

Network Pavilion show our world in the 21st century on the innovation, cultural and economic network of the story. Among them, the United Kingdom is a world leader in these areas. Pavilion overall lightweight, low-cost and sustainable preservation. It embodies the United Kingdom in the world design, innovation and the unique status of the arts.

Britain's characteristics: the time in the design of the British Museum, very far-sighted to simulate the effect of the Expo's evening. External surface of the British Museum spent more than 60 thousand tentacles stretching in all directions, each tentacle contains an LED light-emitting diode, to help tentacles to form changing the luster and color, light and shadow to create a breathtaking feast at night. Although the British Museum during the day looking at some strange and can only earn a different type of scoring. But at night, the British Museum special brilliance destined to attract more tourists. Exclaimed at the same time as the British Museum's unconventional, you will appreciate the Expo is also a no smoke, only the eyes and the light of the battlefield, a technology and innovation between countries on competition.
 

Seed Temple Introduction：

 
Appearance: simple and creative. The biggest highlight of the whole building, which is its core - a six-storey cube structure, the whole body of about 60,000 poking transparent acrylic rods, the acrylic rods that extend outward, the wind rocked.

Internal: people will be a meditation room, visitors can clearly see the seeds of wild plants from around the world. During the day, of each pole will be as transparent conductive fiber as sunlight, light seeds, light up the entire interior of the building. Night, they included a light source to light up the whole building.

Significance: Visitors entering the "temple" will find 60 thousand after the acrylic rods in each of the root contain different kinds of shapes and sizes of seeds. It is a symbol of Britain's Expo theme "Better City, Better Life" interpretation, a unique demonstration of the world's natural resources, protection of the United Kingdom played a leading role, but also to the public display of the biological diversity in all areas of human life such as new drug development, new materials, building technology, communications systems and sustainable energy, the creativity and give us the great potential it contains. It is through the seed to explore and use the forces of nature, we can better protect the future of humanity, and our living environment.

Apartments around the meaning of design: as an open wrapping paper, will be wrapped in one of the "seed Temple", to China, as a symbol of friendship gift. During the Expo, launched in this "wrapping" on the British will hold a series of cultural events in honor of visiting the British Museum the public.

Landscape - Ginkgo biloba: Ginkgo trees have been planted in two British Museum next to the Ginkgo is a symbol of vitality and endurance, but also reflects the theme of Britain's participation, as the Shanghai World Expo Park in the British Museum as part of the landscape.
Inspired by the amber mosquito package

To fully experience the British Museum, the audience go through a few well-designed and decorated the channel, into the British Museum interior. Here, visitors will find 60 thousand tentacles will be presented in the internal shape of a butterfly; and yet another mystery within the antenna: Each acrylic rods are placed inside the shape, various kinds of seeds, so the United Kingdom Museum a spectacular "seed Temple."

Heatherwick said, using acrylic rods as seed containers, inspired by the movie "Jurassic Park" in the amber mosquito wrapped sinking; things come with a transparent package of seed, like amber wrapped in mosquito Like, this one contains a desire on the new life.
 

Prompt：

According to the staff of the British Museum, 60000 acrylic rods in the seed from the Royal Botanic Garden, Kunming Institute of Botany, cooperation Millennium Seed Bank project, the seed came from Yunnan Kunming Botanical Garden, Pavilion taken into account in the collection of plant varieties, seed size, ornamental and other factors, to choose the people familiar with the plant or a plant grow more distinctive. Provided by the Kunming Institute of Botany, the more than 890 kinds of plant seeds, some ornamental plants, medicinal plants, food crops, fruits, vegetables, oil crops and other plants mostly from China, including the rare endemic plants, such as the dove tree, Ginkgo biloba.

These seeds will be watered with a special process into the acrylic rods at one end, a larger seed size generally placed on one, and some small seeds would be placed 89, the largest seed a small walnut, the smallest seeds such as mung bean size. Through the transparent pole, the audience can appreciate the British Museum thin. To allow the audience to understand these different seeds, the British Museum there will be information on each type of seed introduction.
After the World Expo in Shanghai, this 60 000 seeds with acrylic rod to be cut retained in the UK and China, some schools and parks, landscape composition, in which a considerable portion of the school will remain in China.