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- 关键字: 来源:上海企业画册设计公司 发布日期:2008-07-05 11:36
- What it an EXPO As you sit one of the cable cars swaying gently over a landscape of revolving
carrots(Estonian Pavilion),frozen cubes(Iceland),Buddhist temples(Thailand,Nepal,Bhutan),
deserts complete with sand,palms and camels(United Arab Emirates),Arabian and North African
villages(Yemen and Ethiopia),EXPO 2000 reveals itself to be a miniature world circus.Every
nation that can affort it has a pavilion in which to drum up trade for their tourist industries,
offer cultural token in their gift shops and bazaars,perform traditional music,
dance and theatre,and show films stressing their reasonable politics,and flexible economies.
Surprisingly,the USA decided they couldn’t affort the investent.This is the
first world exposition in which they have not taken part, on the other hand,Trans global
businesses,such as McDonalds,Coca Cola,Volkswagen and siemens,have seized the opportunity
to show their activities in a positive,humane and environmentally-friendly light.The EXPO
world is a stage and everyone on it an actor.
In 1990 the Bureau International des Expositions,which sists in Paris,chose Hanover in
opposition to Toronto,as the site for EXPO 2000.There followed ten years of planning,
discussion,and opposition.Was the hundred-year-tradition of world exhibitions not an outdated concept in the
age of television and the internet? None has ever shown a profit.Mage development causes
environmental damage in the host nation.Is it environmentally responsible to attract
millions of tourists to one location in western Europe? Could public transport cope?
Where would all the
cars park? Could Germany affort both to modernize East Germany and finance a world EXPO?
Did anyone know where Hanover was?
Some of these questions are still valid. Until the EXPO closes, at the end of October,The
financial and environmental balance will not be known. In EXPO`s first week there
were 650,000 visitors-of whom only 8 percent were foreigners-half the number required to make the EXPO economically successful. Will the anticipated
40 million be reached before the end of October?
EXPO`s motto, “Man Nature Technology”, emphasizes the new 21st century attitude to
world development-peaceful partnership between Man and nature. Not only in Germany
but around the world, there are hundreds of EXPO projects; in Honduras the growing of
the Mona Lisa banana is being encouraged to improve farmers low standards of living; in
Curitiba, Brazil, an integrated public transport network has reduced petrol use by 30
percent; a sustainable agriculture and forestry programme in Gisborne, New Zealand, has
halted land erosion; in Bavaria, Germany,
bio-degradable plastic is being manufactured. Projects have been awarded the EXPO logo,
documented and displayed, to creat a global network of practical ideas in line with Agenda 21,
the world programme for the 21st century, agreed at Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
Unlike previous EXPOs, anexisting permanent International Trade Fair premises has been utilized
and expanded with new exhibition halls,which will remain for future Fairs. Any specially
constructed EXPO national pavilions are either being recycled as educational, industrial,
and commercial spaces for Hanover, or removed to other sites around the world. Hanover has
refurbished its central railway station and built an extra station for Laatzen, the
Hanover suburb in which EXPO has been developed. City bus, underground and tram systems
have all benefited from EXPO face lifts, and periphery institutions or businesses, taxis,
museums and hotels are hoping for spin-off advantages.
What is there to see at EXPO? There are 43 national pavilions. Africa, the Caribbean and
South Pacific nations have group halls with exotic markets, drinking ceremonies and real
waterfalls. Religion is represented by the Vatican`s“ The Holy Chair”(arch: SIAT, Munich)
a“Christus”pavilion, erected by Germany`s Protestant and catholic churches(arch: Gerkan, Marg partner,Hamburg), a Moslem prayer room and numerous Hindu and Buddhist
temples.Pavilions with the longest entry queues include Japan`s(arch: Shigeru Ban, Tokyo);
a 3,600-sqm paper construction with thick paper roll beams 40cm long and 12.5cm thick,roofted
over with a textile and paper membrane. After EXPO the whole building will become scrap paper.
The Netherlands chose a very young architecture office(MRVDV, Rotterdam)to construct a comical comment on land management. The eightstorey building is a 40m high
landscaped club sandwich of windmills, rushing water,forest,grass and flowers, mountains and
a sunken grotto. Spain and Portugal have used a building material that can be
harvested-corknormally only seen in the
necks of wine bottles and pinboards. Spain`s cork block(arch: Cruz,Ort`z Arquitectos,
Seville)has no internal exhibition but stands as an art object,with tapas bar and restaurant celebrated
the healthy Mediterranean diet.Bhutan`s temple(arch:Peter Schmid,Thimphu,Bhutan)was assembled
by imported Bhutan craftsmen using imported Bhutanese timber elements.This Himalayan
mountain kingdom,the natural habitat of many medicinal plants,strives to maintain a
balance between economic development and environmental protection.
Nations present themselves architecturally.In contrast,nebulous themes such as mobility,
workplace,health,humankind`s basic needs,recycling processes,and the media world of print,
film,bit and bytes,appear in black box presentations.Visitors enter darkened halls to walk,
ride or wander through static displays,or watch animations and robotic productions.
Everywhere there are the inevitable interactive computer screen-some more intelligent than
others.There is a lot of politically correct timber at EXPO.Not surprisingly as this is a
building material which is perpetually renewable and,as a by-product,helps clean and
replenish the world`s air supply.
The French pavilion(arch:Francoise-Helene Jourda,Paris),sponsored by sports chain Decathlon,
will be used as a sports supermarket after EXPO.Currently,it`s a forest of trees supporting
a glass envelope.Switzerland has piled up massive timbers in50m long and 7m high walls to
form a labyrinth plan(arch:Peter Zumthor,Haldenstein,Switzerland).Finland,another forested landscape,now famous
as Nokia-land where every baby has a mobile phone,is represented by a “windnest”(arch:Antti-Matti Siikala and Sarlotta Narjus,Helsinki).The center is open to
the sky and contains a birch wood,through which visitors wander into exhibitions on modern
communications and forestry-related industries.Hungary(arch:Gyorgy Vadasz,Budapest)presents
an open bowl of high timber walls containing an open street flanked by wall mounted screens
which take visitors on a tour of Hungary.The juxtapositioning of modern and traditional is
sometimes comic.Poland has constructed a slick minimalist structure of tapering timber clad
columns to shelter a fairy tale timber village and a salt mine.
The EXPO 2000 symbol is a gigantic shelter of ten,40×40m umbrellas constructed of ancient oaks from the Black Forest(arch:Thomas Herzog+Partner,Munich).It stands on the central plaza where pontoon islands float on water,cafes
and restaurants provide a rest area for foot-weary
visitor,and evening spectacles are performed on and around the lake.
Demonstrating energy-saving,Lichtenstein`s pavilion(arch:Gassner& Seger,Vaduz)is a
Null-Energy.On the subject of low cost environmentally-friendly materials,the Zero Emissions Research Initiative,the ZERI-Foundation,has constructed a 14m high by 40m mushroom,using
Colombian Arbocolo woods and bamboo which,as is already known in China,has structural
strength comparable with steel,but is lighter and more flexible.This makes it an
earthquake-proof building material.Another environmental aspect is that thickets of growing
bamboo prevent land erosion.
EXPO fascinates with its mish-mash of modern and experimental,wigwams,adobe mud and thatch huts,
but this recipe produces at best a theme park for tourists with digital video cameral.Is this
any different from past decades and centuries in which Australian aborigines,natives of
Mali,or Yemeni tribal musicians performed for explorers with beads,and colonialists with guns?
For a multilingual/multicultural audience of all ages any scientific information or social commentary has to be
reduced and simplified.Despite the microelectronic computer revolution our global
event culture offers nothing new;from ancient Rome`s water-filled arenas for staged sea
battles,to Paxton`s 1815 Crystal Palace in London,or Disney`s worlds on three continents,
majority viewing has often resulted in reduction to the lowest common denominator.Circus
entertainment satisfies the public`s craving for vicarious thrills. Around the world in a
day-without the discomfort of actually traveling across a desert or meeting a lion. Don`t
take my word for it-Why not experience EXPO 2000 for yourself?