With
the theme of "Oriental Crown" to express the spirit and qualities of
Chinese culture, the design idea can be described as "crown of the East,
a prosperous China, a barn of grains for the whole world, well-off
people." It is 63m high, with overhanging floors looking like a city
sculpture, being a landmark of the pavilion. The regional pavilion is 14
m high, spreading horizontally, as if to extend the grains of city,
which serves as the solid base of the construction and the space for
city public activities.
The pavilion absorbed the laws for building
traditional Chinese cities, the grains of composition and the framework
system of traditional constructions and the features of bracket model to
make up its shape. Using the execution of the modern three-dimensional
composition of interlocking, a cubic spatial model system with a modular
figure of 2.7 m
f closely structured and over-hanging floors is
thus composed. This system looks majestic as a whole with a sense of
overwhelming power and meets the requirements of exhibition space as
well as of the mechanic taste of modem engineering and technology.
PrefaceWorld
Exposition has provided golden opportunity to conduct great experiments
in human society. It symbolizes the progress of the world, embodies the
ideology of society and the human race, and promotes development and
dissemination of people's ideals. The 21st century is a century of the
city. Based on this premise, the theme of this Expo has been defined as
"Better City, Better Life," the core value of which is the sustainable
development of harmonious cities. Paying attention to city, and to the
relations between it and nature, and to our living condition, we can
build and create a much better city, pushing forward the sustain- able
development of all the cities in the world, when and if we spare no
efforts to explore the idealistic city in the future to pursue a good,
quality life by way of describing, displaying, studying and discussing
and exchange of ideas on the theme. How to build a city in the balanced
development between its natural ecology and social ecology has become
one of the key curriculums of the theme deduction of the Expo. It is not
only a problem that the developing countries have to put it on the list
of priority for consideration, but also one the developed countries
have to face and solve.
The world expo has made all the people of the
world united to explore this problem and aspire for the future. The
Japanese architect Kenzo Tange who was in charge of the planning and
pavilion design of
the Expo Osaka 1970, believed that "the chief
purpose of the modem expositions should get together those people
worldwide who represent the wisdom and cultural crystal of human kind,
and exchange ideas and feelings face to face with each other." World
expo encourages people to advance forward, promotes the fusion of
cultures, and creates the ex- change space and platform.
