Japan Pavilion Dubai Expo 2020
Dubai AE
Yuko Nagayama Associates
2021
Type
Pavilion
Tags
Expo 2020 Dubai UAE, big events
Visitability
Allowed
Description
Based on the expo’s theme of “connecting,” I conceived the theme of the architecture in particular as two types of connections: the cultural connection and the technological connection between Japan and the Middle East. In terms of the cultural connection, I took my starting point from the similarities we can see between Middle Eastern and Japanese geometrical patterns, and explored this across a facade that is a new kind of geometrical 3D lattice serving as the structure and environmental filter. For the technological connection, I wanted to incorporate the element of water based on the water technology long utilized in the Middle East region. It is my hope that future connections with the Middle East as well as between people can emerge from this pavilion.(Text by Yuko Nagayama )