THE PROJECT OF THE RUSSIAN EXHIBITION HALL AT EXPO-2010 IN SHANGHAI (Entry 95959)

Authors
A. Skokan, V. Kanyashin, K. Berdnikova, M. Matveenko

Address
Shanghai,

Client
“MIRAX GROUP”, JSC “GAO VVTS”

The total area
6000 sq.m

Start
2008

The concept is based on an image of the city which turns disadvantages of close coexistence into pluses of mutual enrichment of cultures and free exchange of information, generating impulses of updating and changes to the best. The modular structure enables to form various internal and external spaces similar to the urbanspaces, following the scenario of the exposition. The yielding flow of space is to oppose an idea of rigid hierarchy advantage to development freedom.

 

The structure volume, in the basis, is a parallelepiped constructed according to the cubic module of 5х5х5 meters. The external surfaces, formed by the prominent and falling back planes, create the similarity of an urban structure. On the inside the exhibition hall presents a complex segueing space changing in all directions vertically and horizontally. Four levels of the exposition are connected by escalators which move in the plan as the space develops upward. The displacement time diagram presupposes free circulation of attendees,beginning both from ground level, and from the pedestrian overhead road adjoining the site of the exhibition hall.