SPANISH PAVILLON for
the International Exhibition Shanghai 2010
Architect: Benedetta Tagliabue
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Location: SHANGHAI
Site area: 6465,80 m2
Bldg. area: 5169,60 m2
Gross floor area: 10951,06 m2
Structure: Iron
Exterior finishing: wicker, etfe, glass
Interior finishing: bamboo, wicker, wood, dry wall
Design Year (period): 2007-2008
Completion: 2010
Project 2007:
Project leader: Makoto Fukuda, Arch., Salvador Gilabert, Arch, Elena Rocchi,
Arch.
Collaborators: Guile Amadeu, Arch., Francesca Ciprini, Arch., Mattia Cappelletti,
Arch., Manuel Rearte, Johane Ronsholt, Kazuya Morita, Gian Mario Tonossi,
Olivia Kostifa, Cesar Trujillo, Carles Pastor, Marta Martinez, Noelia
Pickard
Client: SEEI (Sociedad Estatal para Exposiciones Internacionales, S.A.)
Budget: €18.000.000,00
Date: 2007 – in progress
Site: Shanghai, China
Surface: 8500 mq
“Only a few months following the opening ceremony for the International
Exhibition in Zaragoza 2008, word has already come around of the Shanghai
Expo 2010, which aims to be the greatest and most sustainable environmentally,
but at the same time the most technological. In the hard task of making
everything coexist, the pavilions will divide themselves between technological
choices (…) and the sustainable ones, like the warped fabric made
of steel and wicker of Spanish pavilion. The Barcelonese studio Miralles
Tagliabue (EMBT) won the public contest against project competitors such
as Izaskun Chinchilla (second place), Federico Soriano and Batlle i Roig.
The project proposed by EMBT consists on developing the handicraft technique
of the wicker into a practice of construction. With this goal in mind,
the universal language of the material works to build a bridge between
East and West, and among Spain and China. With the volumetric, material,
and structural inspirations of a wicker basket array, the void of the
stands will mold a pavilion in which tubular metallic supports will sustain
a wicker grid that will filter the light and function as a climatic membrane
that wraps the pavilion.” Text by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, El Pais Babelia
Competition, Jan 2007:
Project leader: Makoto Fukuda, Arch.
Collaborators: Salvador Gilabert, Arch.
Guile Amadeu, Arch.
Francesca Ciprini, Arch.
Gabriele Rotelli, Arch.
Gitte Kjaer
Michael González
Natalia Leone
Judith Plas
Mattia Cappelletti
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