Singapore add itself into the glittering list of Expo2020 Dubai participants
Singapore will take part in Expo 2020, the next World Expo, which will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), from 20th October 2020 to 10thApril 2021. The Singapore Pavilion, titled Nature. Nurture. Future, will pay tribute to Singapores voyage towards growth, sustainability and resilience.
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will lead Singapores participation in Expo 2020 Dubai, coordinating and collaborating with partners from the public and private sectors to realize the Singapore Pavilion.
Global platform for making connections
Themed Connecting Minds, Creating the Future, Expo 2020 Dubai will be a celebration of key global improvements and accomplishments, offering visitors 173 days of technology, art, science, culture, creativity, food and music. It will provide a platform to address global difficulties and foster creativity, innovation and collaboration amongits 192 participating countries and millions of visitors. Expo 2020 will also be the first World Expo to be hosted in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region and is expected to attract 25 million visits.
The Singapore Pavilion will possess a 1,550 square-meter site within the Sustainability District of the 4.38 square-kilometer Expo 2020 site in Dubai South, an easy 30-minute drive from Downtown Dubai and less than an hours drive from both the Dubai and Abu Dhabi international airports.
Intended to show a microcosm of the nations changed scene to visitors, the Singapore Pavilion will feature how the country continues to strive towards livability, sustainability and resilience through innovative urban solutions. It will also serve to showcase Singapores qualities and expertise with the point of creating potential business opportunities for the country.
Profiling Singapores expertise in urban solutions
Expo 2020 Dubai will mark Singapores fourth presentation at a World Expo, having also participated in 2000, 2005 and 2010. Singapores participation in Expo 2020 Dubai underlines its close bilateral ties with the UAE. As centres for our respective regions, Expo 2020 Dubai will facilitate further extension of Singapores network in the Middle East region and will also extend the commitment between the two countries.
Chief Executive Officer of the URA Lim Eng Hwee stated: The Singapore Pavilion is centered on our countrys guiding ethos of manageable growth where we can have both financial development and an amazing living condition. Through the presentation at Expo 2020 Dubai, we hope to celebrate Singapores spirit of ingenuity and creativity by profiling Singapores innovative urban solutions, design and capabilities through programmes and activities that will take place throughout the six-month Expo. We invite Singapore businesses and organisations to play a part in realising the Singapore Pavilion and reach out to a global audience in the dynamic MEASA region.
Singapore companies who are interested to work together and contribute to the Singapore Pavilion programmes are encouraged to email the organising team at info@singaporepavilion2020.sg.
Showcasing a City in a Garden
With the theme of Nature. Nurture. Future, the Singapore Pavilion will encapsulate Singapores story of overcoming its physical limitations as a small island city-state to become a highly livable and sustainable city. With the world becoming more fast-paced, diverse and unpredictable, it is essential that Singapore adapts to remain resilient.
Through an imaginative and experiential voyage of individual and aggregate discoveries, guests will come to comprehend Singapores development into a City in a Garden, where it keeps on encouraging a synergistic and collaborative relationship between the community, nature, and the built environment, to create possibilities for the future.
The Singapore Pavilion is designed bySingapore firm WOHA Architects, one of Southeast Asias best known and most awarded architectural practices, and produced by Radius Experiential International.The pavilionfeatures a distinctive architectural design with lush landscaping as an interpretation of Singapores sustainability story.
The inventive vision for the Singapore Pavilion is that of a dense, multi-layered three-dimensional greening space a city that is set in a garden. The ground levelwill be a welcoming space for visitors, set in tropical garden ambience.Three large modular garden cones draped in verdant vertical greenery will form the centrepieces of the pavilion, with key exhibits housed within their inside spaces. A canopy walk will interconnect the three cones to lead guests through the shows and up to an open platform with vantage purposes of the Expo site that additionally takes into account collaboration and discourse.
The Singapore Pavilion is additionally envisioned as a net-zero energy pavilion that incorporates sustainability plan strategies and highlights, such as a cantilevered roof to provide shade and thermal comfort, solar panels and water treatment technology to accommodate for the energy and water needs of the pavilion.
