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Shanghai

Mexican Pavillion

China

Shanghai Expo 2010

Mexican Pavillion
Shanghai, China

Competition

In Collaboration with Hugo Sánchez (Taller Entorno)

 

IND proposal for the flag of Mexico is a search for how to integrate three emergencies at a temporary building by means of a clear formal gesture. The flag is not about creating another volume in the Expo, but rather tries to express the lack of it. The project is the negative of a volume formed by two surfaces, ie the vacuum created by the apparent union between an artificial hill for public access and a series of micro umbrella. Together these two elements form a light cover surfaces for photo voltaic cells.

The Promenade, a garden where there is shelter walkers from the expo as well as the visitor's pavilion. This space is made up of a garden column, which together with the structural columns to create a perception like a nursery, where a list of plants from different parts of the country took part in the exhibition hall.  The gardens are columnar cylindrical structures are sufficient to permit the development of epiphytes, hanging ferns, gross and other natural conditions that require very little land for development and reproduction.

The interior floor of the pavilion is left open through a modular space. The sample of the exhibit is based on a multi-column system. The column also functions as a key part of the structure also serves as an element of the exhibit, which functions as a lamp, in addition to being proposed to accommodate a system of shutters and screens, finally, as a basis for state objects.

 

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Idea

 

 

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Green Columns

 

 

 

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Plan

 

 

 

 

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Axonometric divided section