THE PROJECT OF THE RUSSIAN EXHIBITION HALL ON EXPO-2010 IN SHANGHAI (Entry 88888)

Authors
A. Skokan, A. Gnezdilov, I. Voronezhsky

Address
Shanghai, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality

The total area
6000 sq.m

Start
2008

The exhibition hall building presents a temporary structure made from parts which were made in a factory and then quickly put together. Two ring foot ramps are connected with each other by vertical five-meter spacing and together they form a spatial figure as a repetitive eight. The overhead cover membrane (of the ramp) is also a spatial prefab made from metal-wood panels. The structure is supported by round metal uprights whichalso serve as flagstaffs outside the building surface.

The ramp spiral housing the exposure of the Russian exhibition hall is spatially bent so that a visitor, having stepped onto it, becomes the participant of an attraction-travel through the unfamiliar Russian city and all Russia. On this long and, it seems, infinite way he is being awaited by up-hills and down-hills, godsends and disappointments, discoveries and mistakes. Perhaps he will return several times to the same place or unexpectedly will find himself on the roof alfresco, but will never reach a deadlock and will always find a way out. Perhaps a visitor, as well as the designers, will see this exhibition hall as a philosophical metaphor ofcontradictory, but paradoxically harmonious way of Russia in the modern world.