Rotating Wheels : This, inspired me of how the technology can be involved in architectural design. Nowadays, technology is developing very fast, and in the next 10 years (2020) it will be more and more development. So in my thinking i want to apply this hi-tech to my design , to help the Expo become more great, more exciting and more convenience to the people.
Floating Architecture
Theme: 1. “The City Of All Emotions” / 2. “Emotional City For All Nation”
Posted: June 9, 2010 in Uncategorized- Since the selected topic is about the connecting, communication, love, awareness, disasters, of people, nature …etc, so all of this relate to the expressing of the feeling such as, sadness, happiness, hopefulness and so on.
- The feeling of people to each others, the feeling of people to the nature, the feeling of people to the planet, the feeling of people to the disasters, so all of these feeling can be assumed in one word is Emotion.
- We recognize cities and towns as centres of civilization, generating economic development and social, cultural, spiritual and scientific advancement.
- The theme is about the unity of the human on the planet by connecting to each others, loving each others, helping each others, saving the planet, stopping the disasters and become as one powerful union.
Project: EXPO 2020 Bangkok Thailand & Digital Media District
To help us easily imagine what will Bangkok, Thailand looks like in the next 10 years (2020), is to look back in the past decades and compare the difference, the development, in term of technology, architecture, infrastructure, culture, lifestyle, transportation, population and so on, which could affect the changing of the city into the new face.
Location: Seoul, Korea
Size: 135 acres (55 hectares)
Dates of Planning and Development: 1994 to the present
Developers: Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Metropolitan Development Corporation
Vision: To “develop a futuristic info-media industrial complex that will serve as a center of information technology in northeast Asia.“ “The most valuable part of Digital Media City is that it will become an incubator for developing social capital…“
In the late 1990s, the Seoul government first proposed a project that would capitalize on the status of Korea, with its rapidly growing multi-media, IT and entertainment industries, as the world’s most wired nation. The Digital Media City (DMC) aims to promote these industries — as well as companies whose core business requires the use of information, communication, and media technologies — to grow and prosper in the global business environment. The DMC project serves the nation’s larger goals of transitioning from a manufacturing to an innovation economy and promoting Seoul as an east-Asian hub for commerce. The Seoul government is using its process for creating the Digital Media City to spawn partnerships, which in turn will leverage the development of human and social capital. Rather than being an isolated hub of high technology in the fields of digital media and entertainment, the DMC is a major nexus that will feed, and be fed by, the innovation of more than 10,000 small-scale Internet, game, and telecommunication firms already located in Seoul.
Read more at : http://web.mit.edu/cre/research/ncc/casestudies/seoul.html
Throughout its 150 years of its existence, the World EXPO has always brought in new knowledge coming from a given era and reflected development trends in human civilization. The main attraction of the first World EXPO in London in 1851 was the Crystal Palace: an almost five hundred meter-long palace built of cast iron and glass. Subsequently, the exhibiting countries would offer presentations of similar advantages at irregular intervals once every several years.
From simple expositions of artefacts in the 19th century, the EXPO movement graduated to a more complex introduction of exhibits during the 20th century, with all its associations and related matters and the Czech presentation scored not insignificant success. Krejcar’s pavilion at the 1937 Paris EXPO is considered today to be the forerunner of high-tech style and one of the milestones of modern world architecture. The last EXPO before WWII took place in 1939 in New York and then the world was divided first by WWII and then by the Iron Curtain.
n 1958, relations were truly chilly due to the Cold War, and this is why the meeting of the two worlds in Brussels commanded such an exceptional interest. Immediately on the first day, the exposition grounds attracted some 150 thousand visitors, and 41 million through its entire duration (from April to October). Among the wonders of Brussels, besides the Atomium and the Philips buildings by Le Corbusier, was a church for two and a half million worshippers built by the Vatican, and the civil engineering pavilion, a complicated structure – a statue by Van Doosselaere. It was in Brussels that Czechoslovakia scored its biggest success in EXPO history: it won a total of 56 prizes, including the prize for the best pavilion.
After Brussels, new communications concepts entered into the concept of the World Expos. The organizers began to make plans for associated events, i.e. congresses, seminars, festivals, interactive projects etc. The continuous emphasis on interactive interpretation was necessitated by globalization tendencies and development of new revolutionary technologies.
The last EXPO we participated in as Czechoslovakia was in 1992 in Seville and its successor, the Czech Republic was present at the latest expositions in Hannover (2000) and Aichi (2005). In Japan, the Czechs introduced the interactive Garden of Fantasy and Music, which was a relaxation area with optical as well as audio objects that visitors could try out. The Czech presentation was visited by almost 1.7 million visitors.
Today EXPO is the economic and cultural Olympiad of the world, a competition among nations, as well as among exhibitors from the private sector on a given subject. At the same time, it is about marketing countries internationally. Expositions of the first category last a maximum of 6 months and may be held on an enormous area. But at a time when information as well as goods can be had through the internet and other technologies, they remain a place of rendezvous and of authentic experiences.
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