Publication date:
2018/06/25
The design of the Czech National Pavilion at the World Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, will be created by Jan Tuma and Jindřich Ráftl. The practising architects are also PhD students at the CTU Faculty of Architecture. More closely, Ing. arch. Jan Tůma works in the studio of prof. Akad. arch. Vladimír Soukenka and Ing. arch. MgA. Jindřich Ráftl works at the studio of doc. Ing. Milos Florian, Ph.D. The Pavilion will be built by an international consortium of MCI Prague s.r.o. and Swiss NÜSSLI. The jury selected the proposal from out of five that advanced to the final round. From 21 June, Model of the pavilion is on display at the exhibition in the National Technical Museum together with other competeing proposals.
The winning proposal caught the jury's attention with its concept of the organic structure created by the growing quadratic lines of the exhibition space. The jury was represented by architects and theoretical architects Eva Jiřičná, Miroslav Řepa, Zdeněk Lukeš, Michael Klang and David Vávra and representatives of the academic, art and business community Tomáš Matuška, Jan Kukla and Radek Špicar.
The technological core of the national exposition will be the S.A.W.E.R system, producing water from the air using solar energy and cultivating the desert with subsurface cultures developed by scientists of the University Center of Energy Efficient Buildings of CTU and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The system acted as the main motive in creating the shape of the pavilion.
Similar to Milano Expo in 2015, the Czech Pavilion will be located near one of the the main entrances to the exhibition grounds in Dubai. The organizers assume that 25 million people will visit the world exhibition during its six-month period, 75 percent of them from abroad.
