Expo 2010
| Expo 2010 | |
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| motto | "A better city, a better life" |
| General | |
| Exhibition space | 523 ha |
| Number of visitors | 73 million |
| BIE recognition | Yes |
| participation | |
| countries | 192 countries |
| Exhibitors | 242 exhibitors |
| Place of issue | |
| place | Shanghai |
| terrain | Bank of the Huangpu River Coordinates: 31 ° 11 ′ 38.8 ″ N , 121 ° 29 ′ 11 ″ E
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| calendar | |
| opening | May 1, 2010 |
| closure | October 31, 2010 |
| Chronological order | |
| predecessor | Expo 2008 |
| successor | Expo 2012 |
The World Exhibition Expo 2010 took place from 1 May to 31 October 2010 under the theme Better City, Better Life (Engl. Better City, Better Life) in the eastern Chinese metropolis of Shanghai instead. 242 exhibitors took part, including 192 nations and 50 international organizations. A new record was set with 73 million visitors.
The Expo is one of the major international exhibitions recognized by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE).
Logo and mascot
The logo symbolizes three people who hug each other and form a family united in harmony. Its shape is also reminiscent of the Chinese character shi 世 , which means "world". The symbol goes over to the year 2010.
The mascot has the shape of the Chinese character ren ("human", 人 ) and is named Haibao ("sea treasure", 海 宝 ). Hai is also the second syllable of the city name Shanghai.
Haibao was designed by Taiwanese designer Wu Yong-jian and accepted as the official mascot of the Expo on December 18, 2007. It was selected from 26,655 entries in an international competition.
Expo area
The expo area was 5.28 square kilometers and lay on both sides of the Huangpu River , only 6 kilometers south of the city center. The closed area, which could only be entered with a ticket, had a size of 3.28 square kilometers, of which 2.38 square kilometers were in Pudong and 0.9 in Puxi.
For the transport of the expected millions of visitors, the local public transport , u. a. further expanded with several new underground stations . Old industrial buildings and traditional simple residential areas, largely without sanitary facilities, were built on the site. Partly renovated and integrated.
18,000 families were forcibly relocated in a short period of time. Civil rights activist Feng Zhenghu , who represented some of the families, was prevented from re-entering China from June 2009 to February 2010 after traveling abroad. The older industrial facilities, including steel and shipbuilding, were moved to the outskirts of the city.
The first preparatory work started in August 2006; from spring 2007 the first exhibition halls were built.
Expo axis
The main attraction - called the Expo Axis - was an almost 1000 meter long central boulevard on the Pudong site with the world's largest membrane structure. It was built by the architecture office SBA and the engineering office Knippers Helbig (both from Stuttgart). This Expo Boulevard connects the main entrance of the Expo, the China Pavilion, the Themed Pavilion, the Expo Center and the area on the Huangpu River. It was 110 meters wide, extends over two levels and had a total building area of 250,000 square meters. This axis was one of the five buildings that were to be preserved after the expo.
transport
Several ferry connections across the Huangpu River have been established between the Puxi and Pudong sites . 120 electric buses from Volvo and 100 smaller NAC special electric vehicles from the Nanjing Automobile Group with 4 to 11 seats were used for traffic on the Expo site . The charging process at the main charging point took 8 hours, with a range of 100 kilometers. It was also possible to replace the batteries. Brief charging of up to 5 minutes was possible at the stops in Expo-Avenue. After the expo, these buses should be used in Shanghai. There were also buses with fuel cells .
Themed pavilions
At Expo 2010 there were five central themed pavilions dedicated to different aspects of urban development. They carried the mottos Urban Footprints , Urban Planet , Urban Dwellers , Urban Beings and Urban Dreams .
Some of the themed pavilions were located in an exhibition building which, with an area of 11.5 hectares, was the largest building in the history of the world exhibitions. It was located on the Expo axis, directly across from the Chinese country pavilion. The total exhibition area of the building was 80,000 m². In the middle of the building was a 7000 m² multifunctional room with a reception hall that connected the individual pavilions. The building erected by the Chinese hosts was completed in September 2009. Then the internal expansion took place.
Urban footprints
The Urban Footprints Pavilion was created based on a concept by the Shanghai Museum . It should portray the growth of cities as a central factor in progress in history. The exhibition was divided into four sections. The “origins of the city”, “urban development” and the “wisdom of cities” were dealt with in three rooms. The entrance hall with 3000 m² was dedicated to the "ideal fantasy city" of western and eastern characteristics. The exhibition worked on the one hand with high-tech installations, on the other hand with cultural artefacts that were made available on loan from international museums. Those responsible understood their concept of depicting the historical development as "inspiration for the urban development of the future".
Urban planet
The Urban Planet pavilion was located in the central exhibition building on the Expo axis, opposite the Chinese pavilion. It was created according to a concept and plans by the communications agency TRIAD Berlin . The company, which had already implemented designs for the Expo 2000 in Hanover and for the Swiss national exhibition Expo.02 in the Three Lakes Region, was able to prevail against 150 competitors in an international tender. The pavilion was realized under the artistic supervision of TRIAD Berlin in cooperation with Chinese partners.
The Urban Planet pavilion was devoted to the complex processes of urbanization on an area of 12,000 m² . According to the responsible designer, his scenography combines approaches from Western forms of representation with ideas from the Chinese Feng Shui tradition. According to the latter, dynamic life processes can take shape in a harmonious coexistence of the elements, but can also develop destructive forces. Building on this, the exhibition in a two-part structure thematized the dual character of the city as on the one hand an environmental destroyer and on the other hand a place for innovations and technology in the service of an environmentally compatible future.
In the first part of the exhibition, a “Road of Crisis” visualized in five chapters the potential for destruction from cities, the threats to the ecosystem and the depletion of the planet's resources. The visitor should be confronted with the question of how he wants to live in the future. The five chapters follow the Chinese five-element teaching : water - fire - metal - wood - earth.
In the second part of the exhibition, a “Road of Solution” presented approaches to solving global challenges. Best practice examples on a national and international scale, technological developments up to political initiatives and resolutions described the range of possibilities on the way to an ecological transformation and were intended to offer the individual visitor advice on how to act more environmentally conscious in everyday life.
Urban dwellers
The concept for the Urban Dwellers pavilion came from the agency of Dutch designer Herman Kossmann. The focus of the tour was the inhabitants of modern cities. Those responsible saw the guiding principle as the realization that addressing people's needs by urban planners is a “prerequisite for sustainable development of the city”.
As an example, the stories of six real families were told on video clips in the pavilion. The different regions of the world were represented by their hometowns Paris (Europe), São Paulo (Latin America), Phoenix (North America), Lijiang (Asia), Melbourne (Oceania) and Ouagadougou (Africa). The life situation of the six families was presented in five sections, which were devoted to the topics of living, work, human relationships, education and health.
Urban Beings
In the tender for the Urban Beings Pavilion, a joint design by the Chinese Academy of Arts and the Land Design Studio in London was successful. Thematically the growth of the infrastructure of modern cities was dealt with. The exhibition presented the complex network of traffic as well as water and energy supply as a core component of the urban “organism”. The pavilion was created in the central exhibition building on the Expo axis.
The exhibition rooms included a “dynamic train station”, which was architecturally reminiscent of the large train station halls from the beginning of the 20th century and in which, among other things, trains from different generations were presented. On the way through the “Ring-shaped Pipeline”, another exhibition room, the visitors gained insights into the functioning of the underground infrastructure of the cities that were otherwise denied. An eight-minute video clip with spectacular images was also shown in a cinema with seven screens and a projection area of 1000 m².
Urban Dreams
A power plant from the beginning of the 20th century was converted for the Urban Dreams Pavilion. The exhibition, which was designed by the Spanish agency Ingeniaqed in collaboration with the Chinese artist Bu Hua, was based on the concept of a journey through time into the future - with an optimistic view of the opportunities that modern technology combined with tradition offered for the expansion of more livable cities.
On a tour of the five exhibition rooms, visitors were presented with sustainable approaches to solving urban problems relating to living space, traffic, energy supply and urban planning. It referred to innovations that have been implemented in various cities around the world, including Beijing , Kobe , Freiburg im Breisgau , Canberra and San Diego . The highlight of a visit to the Urban Dreams Pavilion should be viewing an animated film that was shown in the 35 m high central hall and presented a colorful fantasy world.
Country pavilions
Chinese pavilion
In May 2007, the hosts of the Expo 2010 announced an international competition for the design of their country pavilion. From the 344 submissions, three drafts were shortlisted. In September 2007 the “Crown of the Orient” by the Chinese architect He Jingtang prevailed. Conceived as a landmark of the Expo 2010, the complex had a two-part structure, consisting of a flat base and a towering main building with a sweeping pagoda shape . With a height of 63 m, the latter was three times higher than the other national pavilions. The construction cost was estimated at 1.5 billion yuan at the start of the project. The shell was presented to the public in June 2009.
The exterior of the main building shone in seven shades of Gugong red, which was previously reserved for buildings in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The 30 m high roof was a layered Dougong structure, but not a traditional wooden structure, but a steel structure. The 56 brackets that held the roof together symbolize the number of nationalities in China today. The roof surface is designed in a traditional Sudoku pattern, as it characterizes historical city plans, such as Beijing or Xi'an .
The main building had an exhibition area of 47,000 m². The urban development in Chinese history was processed here. Particular attention has been paid to the immigration of hundreds of millions of Chinese into cities over the past 30 years. Visitors should be able to follow the migrants' path on three levels. The base building served as a community pavilion for the Chinese cities, provinces and autonomous regions, which had an exhibition area of 45,000 m². Their names were found as an ornament in the style of Chinese stamp calligraphy on the outside of the base. It was originally planned that Taiwan , Macau and Hong Kong could also present themselves in the Chinese pavilion. Difficulties quickly arose in negotiations in this regard. All three were represented at the Expo with their own pavilions.
He Jingtang designed the outside areas of the Chinese pavilion in the style of traditional horticulture of the Jiangnan region with small pavilions and ponds. The architect described the Chinese country pavilion as a “statue of China standing in the garden of a city”.
German pavilion
The German pavilion was located in the European zone of the Expo site, near the Lupu Bridge over the Huangpu. Koelnmesse International, a subsidiary of Koelnmesse , was responsible for the project and had a pavilion built on the largest possible area of 6000 m² with the motto "Balancity - City in balance". A jury selected contemporary German artists, including the street artist Evol , the painters Sebastian Schrader and Tom Fleischhauer and the photographer Gregor Steffen , who were supposed to make contributions on this topic. The total cost of the project was estimated at 50 million euros. A "German Pavilion Shanghai Working Group" formed by three companies from southern Germany was responsible for the design. The architectural concept came from the Munich architecture firm Schmidhuber + Partner, the exhibition and media were designed and implemented by the Stuttgart agency Milla & Partner , while the German subsidiary of the Nüssli Group based in Roth was responsible for implementation and project management .
The pavilion was called "balancity". According to those responsible, the made-up word should refer to a “city in balance”. The main theme of the exhibition was the quality of life and diversity of modern cities, which maintain a balance between “renewing and preserving, innovation and tradition, city and nature, community and individual, work and leisure.” On the last day of the exhibition, the German pavilion was named “best Implementation of the Expo theme “A better city, a better life” ”was awarded the“ Golden Award ”by the Expo management following the coordination of a commission of experts made up of architects and museum managers. He also received the red dot award , the EVA event award in gold and the ADAM award in silver.
The architects describe the pavilion building as a "three-dimensional walk-in sculpture". It consisted of four irregularly shaped, connected exhibition bodies that formed a “roof” over the pavilion area. The exhibition bodies could be reached via the forecourt known as the "Expo Plaza" or a green terrace landscape that rose to the third floor of the pavilion. The framework construction is surrounded by a silvery, 12,000 m² membrane skin.
In the individual rooms, which were crossed on foot or on escalators or moving belts, different urban landscapes were staged, from a port to a park, a factory, a studio and a town square. The highlight of the tour through the pavilion was the "energy center", a cone-shaped room in which a 1.2 ton ball with a diameter of three meters hung. It is filled with around 400,000 light-emitting diodes that generated different images, including impressions from German cities. From the three tiers of the room, visitors to the pavilion were able to make the ball vibrate by shouting and clapping loudly. The stronger the rash, the more colorful the images on the sphere. Three institutes from the University of Stuttgart participated in the realization of the construction .
The pavilion also contained a restaurant that offered typical food and drinks from Germany and was used for an extensive program with concerts, exhibitions and language courses. Further events and presentations from German federal states and regions took place on the exhibition grounds and in Shanghai itself. Freiburg, Düsseldorf and Bremen are presenting themselves with their own contributions on the Puxi site.
The capital Berlin was represented in balancity - a city in balance by a big Buddy Bear in front of the backdrop of the Brandenburg Gate , which is now a gift from "Berlin Partner GmbH" in Shanghai.
Hamburg House
Shanghai's twin city, Hamburg , was the only German city chosen by the international selection committee to implement its own construction project at the Expo. In the Urban Best Practice Area (UBPA) - the expo area for optimal urban solutions, the Hamburg House was commissioned by the Free and Hanseatic City as the first certified passive house in China. Built according to the highest energy standards and based on a residential and office building in HafenCity , it was the first to show the implementation of such a construction method while adapting to Shanghai's climatic conditions. The four-storey house was traversed by a tree of wishes as the guideline of an exhibition (Chinese title: At home of living energies and humanity ), which dealt with sustainable urban development and climate-friendly construction and which makes Hamburg an innovative and livable metropolis on the water with its connections China represented. The Hamburg House has meanwhile been criticized as a bureaucratic project with little ecological benefit. Chinese partners on site were hardly involved, the technology did not work on site and to date there are no consumption values for the energy balance.
Swiss pavilion
Covering an area of 4000 m², Switzerland presented with an exhibition on rural-urban interaction ( Engl. Urban-rural interaction ). The concept and the thematic exhibition were developed by Buchner Bründler AG Architects together with element GmbH. The stainless steel facade of the Swiss Pavilion Expo 2010 Shanghai was fitted with interactive LED lights developed by iart . The lights responded to solar energy and ambient light. A chairlift took visitors to the green roof of the pavilion.
Austrian pavilion
The Austrian pavilion presented itself under the motto "Austria - Senses in harmony" on an area of 2000 m² in a dynamic, abstract form. The design of the two-storey pavilion came from the Viennese architects SPAN & Zeytinoglu Architects. In an interactive, multimedia exhibition, visitors were able to experience Austria with all their senses. In addition to the real pavilion, Austria took part in the Expo Online with a virtual pavilion. The Austrian contribution, which was based on the Expo sub-theme “Interaction between rural and urban areas”, was financed by BMWFJ and WKÖ .
National Day was on May 21, 2010.
Reuse
Numerous pavilions were dismantled again, sold or transported from the countries of origin. Several pavilions have been preserved: The Czech and Slovak Pavilions were rebuilt in the city of Huanghua (Huánghuá, 黄骅) in Hebei Province . The Swedish Pavilion in Wuxi was also rebuilt.
The pavilions of Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands were preserved. It is planned to reuse the exhibition grounds after the renovation phase has ended in 2015 as a mixed use of service companies and an expo museum.
Picture gallery
Flag forest with 248 flags of the nations and organizations
Lupu Bridge at Expo 2010
Expo 2010 by night
"German-Chinese House" made of giant bamboo
Aerodium wind tunnel at Expo 2010
Karaoke in the German pavilion with Ludwig van Beethoven
literature
- An Overview of the World Exposition Shanghai China 2010. Expo 2010 Shanghai Editorial Office, China Publishing Group, 2010, ISBN 978-7-5001-2093-3
- Expo 2010 Shanghai China Official Guidebook - Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, China Publishing Group, 2010, ISBN 978-7-5473-0164-7
- Expo 2010 Shanghai China Official Album - Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, China Publishing Group, 2010, ISBN 978-7-5473-0158-6
- Ingeborg Flagge (ed.): "Luxembourg Expo Pavilion Shanghai - Hermann & Valentiny and Partners", JOVIS Verlag Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86859-062-3
Web links
- Expo 2010 Shanghai , official website (English)
- Expo 2010. Bureau International des Expositions (English). Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
- Expo 2010 tickets , official agent for the sale of Expo 2010 tickets
- Worldexpositions.info independent fan website with ratings and descriptions of all pavilions and numerous photos
- Official website of the German pavilion for Expo 2010 with lots of background information
- Video on Youtube: Show in the energy center of the German pavilion
- Official website of the Swiss Pavilion for Expo 2010
- Official website of the Austrian pavilion for Expo 2010
- Expo 2010. Shanghai Express , Tagesspiegel, April 9, 2009, report
- Shanghai Expo 2010 , information on Shanghai Expo 2010
- Shanghai Expo 2010 news , news about the Shanghai Expo 2010 in German
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official website ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ World Exhibition Expo in Shanghai ended with a record number of visitors ( memento of the original from February 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Deutsche Welle, October 31, 2010
- ↑ Section: Master Plan of Expo 2010 (English).
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 24, 2010. Pavilions and labor camps ( Memento from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Shanghai Daily . December 31, 2009.
- ^ Website of the architects SBA International. EXPO-AXIS, entrance building of the Expo 2010.
- ^ Electric Expo buses start trial runs ( Memento from May 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Shanghai Daily from April 15, 2010.
- ^ An Introduction to the Theme Pavilions of the Expo 2010. In: Shanghai Expo Magazine . Edition 6/2009.
- ^ Theme Pavilion Saw the Successful Completion of Its Construction. In: Shanghai Expo Magazine . Edition 11/2009.
- ^ The Urban Footprints Pavilion. Recap of History, Inspire the Future. In: Shanghai Expo Magazine . Edition 6/2009.
- ↑ To Urban Planet. In: Business Forum China. Pp. 79-80.
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- ↑ a b The Urban Dwellers Pavilion. Various Stories of 6 Families In: Shanghai Expo Magazine . Edition 6/2009.
- ^ An Introduction to the Theme Pavilions of the Expo 2010. In: Shanghai Expo Magazine . Edition 6/2009. The Urban Beings Pavilion. Logic of Life. In: Shanghai Expo Magazine . Edition 6/2009.
- ^ The Urban Beings Pavilion. Logic of Life. In: Shanghai Expo Magazine . Edition 6/2009.
- ^ The Urban Dreams Pavilion. Dream Guides City's Future. In: Shanghai Expo Magazine . Edition 6/2009.
- ^ The Urban Dreams Pavilion. In: Shanghai Expo Magazine . Edition 6/2009.
- ↑ Wang Zhenghua: China Pavilion for Expo 2010 Revealed. On: ChinaDaily.com . December 18, 2007. Till Wöhler: Crown of the Orient. Topping-out ceremony for the Expo pavilion in Shanghai. On: BauNetz.de . June 23, 2009.
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- ↑ EXPO 2010: Evols urbane Balanceakte, Goethe-Institut China, April 2010 ( Memento from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The Berlin Evol opened the exhibition series in the German Pavilion of the Expo Shanghai: Crumbling plaster on cardboard. www.berliner-zeitung.de, June 1, 2010, accessed on February 4, 2018 .
- ^ Website of the architects Schmidhuber and Partners.
- ^ Website of the exhibition organizers Milla & Partner.
- ↑ BMWi press release: Germany shows “balancity” in China, the city in balance . BMWi, accessed on August 8, 2013.
- ↑ Jan W. Brügelmann: Better city, better life. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . February 28, 2010.
- ↑ dpa : German Expo Pavilion receives first prize , October 31, 2010 6:51 am CET
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. EVA Award, 2010 winner , November 8, 2010
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ADAM Award, 2010 winner , November 8, 2010
- ^ Official website of the German Pavilion. ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Touring German Pavilion of Expo 2010. In: Shanghai Expo Magazine . Edition 8/2009.
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- ^ Official website of the German Pavilion. ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Official website of the German Pavilion - Restaurant ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Official website of the German Pavilion - Event ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hamburg House - Expo 2010 Shanghai
- ↑ Official website of the Hamburg House at the Expo 2010 ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Carrying owls to Athens. The Hamburg House in Shanghai. In: greenbuilding 2013-09, pp. 14–15; Chances wasted. German-Chinese cooperation in Shanghai. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung 2010-10, p. 3
- ↑ Official website of the Swiss Pavilion ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Information on the Swiss Pavilion at the 2010 World Exhibition in Shanghai.
- ↑ Swiss Pavilion World Expo 2010 Shanghai , Land of Inventors, The Swiss Magazine for Innovations, 2010
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