"Resourceful Luxembourg" was the motto of the Luxembourg pavilion with an area of 3,650 square meters and space for 500 visitors. As the location, the representatives chose the thematic sector "Opportunity" on the Expo grounds. When construction began, 5,300 cubic meters of soil was first excavated before the construction of the pavilion was erected. A slide, a park planted with trees, the thematic exhibition, a restaurant, a souvenir shop, a covered area with space for up to 200 persons to stand in line, and function rooms formed the inner section of the pavilion.
"Already during the preparations, the chosen facade turned out to be particularly challenging", says NUSSLI project head Claus Kruppa, because: "It envelops the building with steel connectors made of pipes and creates almost 1,000 joints, of which every single one features a different configuration of angles. We spent two months looking for a suitable steel construction company and have now found one."
Architecture and Scenography Complementing Each Other
The small country of Luxembourg is presenting itself as a smart nation: It understands how to connect human, natural, technical, industrial, and financial resources to create opportunities and shape the future. On the pavilion, this core tenet will be represented by the outer shell in the shape of a Möbius strip, which connects the top with the bottom, and the inside with the outside, thereby symbolizing openness, dynamism, and reliability.
On the inside of the pavilion, a spiral path takes visitors on a journey through the changing space: It alternates between inside, outside, height, depth, and different perspectives. The architecture, exhibition, projections and shows are coordinated with each other and allow visitors to experience the country and people of Luxembourg in a didactic, interactive, and intuitive manner.
NUSSLI Project Organization in Dubai
Apart from the Luxembourg pavilion, NUSSLI also be implemented the structures of other Expo participants such as Germany, Monaco, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Japan, Kazakhstan, France, China, Austria, and Belarus. Since mid-2018, the Swiss event construction company has been deployed on site with project teams. The early establishment of the Expo project organization allowed the teams to intimately familiarize themselves with the situation on site. Furthermore, this also allowed the complex planning and implementation, and in particular the materials procurement, personnel deployment, and the exchange of know-how to be optimized.
About Expo 2020
Due to the corona pandemic, Expo 2020 Dubai took place one year later. Under the motto "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future," the Expo gates were open in Dubai from October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. It was the first World Expo to be held in an Arab and Muslim country. More than 190 countries and organizations presented themselves on the three thematic clusters Opportunities, Sustainability and Mobility, which together had the size of 610 football fields. Almost 25 million visitors, mostly from abroad, were at the Expo in Dubai.
Impressions
Awards
| Award | Status | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2A Veneration and Innovative Achievement Memorial Icon Award | Specially Venerated Pavilions | Innovative and Transformative Ideas in Architecture |
| Rethinking the Future Awards | Runner-up | Cultural (built) |
| EXHIBITOR Magazine's World Expo Award | Honorable Mention #3 | Editor's Choice |
| Architizer A+Awards | Finalist | Cultural / Pavilion |
| EXHIBITOR Magazine's World Expo Award | Top 7 Nomination | Exterior Design |
| ADC Art Directors Club Award | Auszeichnung | Exhibition > Exhibition for Subject > Ausstellung |
| The International Architecture Award | Winner | Exposition centres |