At World Expo in Dubai next year, Singapore to showcase itself with green pavilion

Friday, August 30, 2019

A canopy walk in the midst of lush vertical greenery and an open platform offering vantage points – these are among the displays at World Expo in Dubai next year.

The 1,550 sq. m. pavilion titled “Nature. Nurture. Future” will have the ambience of a tropical garden, showcasing Singapore’s City in a Garden image.

The Expo 2020 Dubai will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from Oct 20, 2020 to April 10, 2021. Its overall theme is “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future”.

Held every five years, the World Expo is a six-month-long event where countries present themselves with themed pavilions. The upcoming edition will witness 192 countries taking part and is expected to attract 25 million visits.

The Singapore Pavilion, designed by local architecture firm Woha and produced by Radius Experiential International, runs completely on solar energy and solar desalination systems.

The pavilion will be net-zero in energy over the six-month World Expo period, which means that the structure produces more energy than it consumes.

“The key idea is to create an oasis in the Arabian Desert,” said Woha.

The pavilion will house three large modular garden cones covered in vertical greenery.
A canopy walk, which leads visitors through the exhibits, connects all three cones. It opens up to a platform where visitors can get vantage points of the expo site.

Singapore’s involvement in the Dubai World Expo is led by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), along with partners from the public and private sectors.

In 2010, at the World Expo held in Shanghai, Singapore had showcased a 3,000 sq. m. music box-like structure with the theme “Urban Symphony”.

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