世博会德国馆介绍--建筑（英文）

Architecture reflects principle of balancity

In Shanghai, Germany is presenting a holistic picture of itself. According to Pavilion architect Lennart Wiechell, the principle of the city in balance is also reflected in the architecture of the German Pavilion. This year’s world exhibition is the first since EXPO 2000 in Hanover where it is not the hosts that provide the pavilion buildings but the larger participating countries themselves that build them. Germany has occupied the maximum available space of 6,000 square metres. The 20-metre high building reflects the balancity principle of equilibrium. “It has been designed as a sculpture in space whose four large exhibition structures only find a stable balance in their interaction with each other,” the architect explained. The suspended exhibition structures with the landscape below them for visitors to walk through create an exciting interchange between inside and outside, light and shadow, buildings and nature, city and landscape. An outstanding feature is the silver shell, a special membrane that reduces sun radiation, becomes a light sail at night and lends the Pavilion its aura of lightness.

In Shanghai, Germany is presenting a holistic picture of itself. According to Pavilion architect Lennart Wiechell, the principle of the city in balance is also reflected in the architecture of the German Pavilion. This year’s world exhibition is the first since EXPO 2000 in Hanover where it is not the hosts that provide the pavilion buildings but the larger participating countries themselves that build them. Germany has occupied the maximum available space of 6,000 square metres. The 20-metre high building reflects the balancity principle of equilibrium. “It has been designed as a sculpture in space whose four large exhibition structures only find a stable balance in their interaction with each other,” the architect explained. The suspended exhibition structures with the landscape below them for visitors to walk through create an exciting interchange between inside and outside, light and shadow, buildings and nature, city and landscape. An outstanding feature is the silver shell, a special membrane that reduces sun radiation, becomes a light sail at night and lends the Pavilion its aura of lightness.