Model #5 2010 World Expo Taiwan Pavilion

May 03, 2014

Model #5 2010 World Expo Taiwan Pavilion

WORLD EXPOSITION TAIWAN PAVILION

THE WORLD EXPOSITION

The World Exposition (World's fair/World Exposition/Universal Exposition) is a public exhibition, held in varying countries around the World. Countries, technologies, and inventions are brought to the exposition held every five years, they are presented to companies or visitors that find interest into participating.

During 2010, the most recent exposition, which was held in Shanghai, China, had the largest number of countries participating (246 countries/international organizations) and most expensive Expo in the history of World Expos (also the largest site, 5.28 square km) The Expo welcomed a total of 73 million visitors, which also set the record of most attendance, on 16th October 2010, the Expo also set a single-day record of over 1,03 million visitors.

TAIWAN PAVILION @ SHANGHAI 2010

This Model is of the Taiwan Pavilion (designed by C. Y. Lee), which resembles a lantern, and parts of the Taipei 101 (Nanoblock Taipei 101 Model: http://nanoblockworld.blogspot.sg/2014/03/model-3-taipei-101.html) In the centre of the Pavilion, there is a enormous round LED screen, which projects images of Taiwan and its culture. Today, the Pavilion has been relocated to Hsinchu, Taiwan.

In my opinion, I think this is one of my favourite feats of architecture in the World, it not only reflects of the culture and images of Taiwan, but also its history and innovation. The pavilion on first glance looks modern, but also mixes with cultural settings displayed on its colourful LED screen.

THE PROCESS/CONSTRUCTION

I spent quite a lot of time on this project, as it had delicate parts I had to keep rebuilding over and over again to try out the best results and looks of the final product. One of the hardest was the process of building the main lantern structure (which accommodates the round LED screen in the pavilion), because it had so many delicate parts, which could only be supported by so many pieces of the structure. I used lots of stacked poles to keep the structure's sides and corners standing. The top of the pavilion was also very hard, because it had to be supported by using diagonal pieces stacked on one another. On the other hand, the pavilion's side building (blue with grey patterns) and the lantern base were not as hard. I did find it quite hard, however, trying the make the ratio of the lantern to base correct and equivalent in terms of height and width, with the lantern's growing size as it is built higher.

OVERALL

Overall, this project was upon one of my favourite to build, challenging, creative, and special. I believe that all the pavilions in the World Expo 2010 had been special in their own way, please let me know in the comments below which pavilion I should build next! Thanks!