State grid pavilion focuses on future magic of power
By Yang Jian |
September 3, 2009, Thursday
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ALMOST all the pavilions at next year's World Expo Shanghai will have a theater, but one among them - China's State Grid Pavilion, from the country's main power supplier - will provide unprecedented audio and visual experiences making it worth the visit.
Patrons will be invited to stand at the center of a 20-meter-high cubic theater with six screens covering the walls, ceiling and floor. The screens will cover a 720-degree space to let audiences feel that they are fully integrated.
The images will keep changing and even whirling. Visitors will experience sensations such as if they are surfing in the sea and being engulfed by waves, or standing on a cliff and then dropping. Handrails will be installed for patrons to prevent them falling down.
The movie will tell a four-minute story about comfortable future life made possible by intelligent power systems, says Hua Bin, director of the pavilion.
The movie will be displayed for the duration of the Expo, with a capacity for 250 viewers at a time.
The 4,000-square-meter pavilion, named "Magic Box," is designed to be a metallic square with a crystal cube embedded inside. The cube will be in the theater that will provide the special experience. It will also be an external visual highlight.
The cube will be covered by LED screens and will show glaring images at night to give visitors a sense of electricity, says Zhao Xiaojun, chief designer of the pavilion, who was also senior designer for the National Aquatics Center for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, better known as the "Water Cube."
"I intended the pavilion to send a message that electricity in the future is safe, high quality, clean and reliable," Zhao says.
It will provide an exhibition based on the theme "Innovation Ignites Dreams" about the relationship between electricity and people's daily lives.
In the pavilion, visitors will first "meet with" the electricity. They will then "get to know" and further be "intensely linked" with electricity, says Hua.
The exhibitions will be arranged in two stories, one at ground level and the other underground.
Exhibition on the ground floor will focus on various contemporary green energies while those elsewhere will showcase the potential of future lives with new energies and intelligent power systems. Visitors will watch the highlight movie at the end of their visit.
A "Tunnel of Electric Current" will connect each exhibition, where visitors are also expected to have a special experience that feels like moving inside the wires.
The underground part will feature a working substation supplying power to parts of the Puxi section of the Expo site. The pavilion will include displays showing how the substation works. Visitors will be invited to venture into the substation.
The substation will be one of five - three in Pudong and two in Puxi - 110-kilowatt substations on the Expo site. They will ensure the power supply of the site during the 184-day event.
Electricity will not be a problem for the massive event as well as other areas in the city during Expo, says Teng Letian, chief engineer of the company.
The power supplier will invest 20 billion yuan (US$2.93 billion) this year to upgrade the city's electricity network, including building highly efficient substations and burying wires underground, with another 6 billion yuan for the five substations on the Expo site.
The State Grid Pavilion at Expo will cost 400-500 million yuan, the cost to be shared by Shanghai Electric and State Grid Corp of China, its parent company.
Steel work on the pavilion has been finished and all construction will be completed by the end of the year. A trial operation will start in March. Magic Box Highlight: A 20-meter-high cubic theater will provide an unprecedented 720-degree visual experience. It will come from screens fixed on the walls, ceiling and in the floor. What to see?
The natural scenery of China's mountains and rivers will be displayed by multimedia on the walls, ceiling and floors inside the pavilion.
Want to have fun?
The underground part will feature a working substation supplying power to parts of the Puxi section of the Expo site.
The pavilion will include displays showing how the substation works. Visitors will be invited to venture into the substation.
A "Tunnel of Electric Current" will connect each of the exhibitions where visitors are also expected to have a special experience that feels like moving inside the wires.4,000 sq m
The 4,000-square-meter pavilion is a metallic square with a crystal cube embedded inside.US$73.2 million
Costing 500 million yuan, the cost is shared by Shanghai Electric and State Grid Corp of China.
Patrons will be invited to stand at the center of a 20-meter-high cubic theater with six screens covering the walls, ceiling and floor. The screens will cover a 720-degree space to let audiences feel that they are fully integrated.
The images will keep changing and even whirling. Visitors will experience sensations such as if they are surfing in the sea and being engulfed by waves, or standing on a cliff and then dropping. Handrails will be installed for patrons to prevent them falling down.
The movie will tell a four-minute story about comfortable future life made possible by intelligent power systems, says Hua Bin, director of the pavilion.
The movie will be displayed for the duration of the Expo, with a capacity for 250 viewers at a time.
The 4,000-square-meter pavilion, named "Magic Box," is designed to be a metallic square with a crystal cube embedded inside. The cube will be in the theater that will provide the special experience. It will also be an external visual highlight.
The cube will be covered by LED screens and will show glaring images at night to give visitors a sense of electricity, says Zhao Xiaojun, chief designer of the pavilion, who was also senior designer for the National Aquatics Center for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, better known as the "Water Cube."
"I intended the pavilion to send a message that electricity in the future is safe, high quality, clean and reliable," Zhao says.
It will provide an exhibition based on the theme "Innovation Ignites Dreams" about the relationship between electricity and people's daily lives.
In the pavilion, visitors will first "meet with" the electricity. They will then "get to know" and further be "intensely linked" with electricity, says Hua.
The exhibitions will be arranged in two stories, one at ground level and the other underground.
Exhibition on the ground floor will focus on various contemporary green energies while those elsewhere will showcase the potential of future lives with new energies and intelligent power systems. Visitors will watch the highlight movie at the end of their visit.
A "Tunnel of Electric Current" will connect each exhibition, where visitors are also expected to have a special experience that feels like moving inside the wires.
The underground part will feature a working substation supplying power to parts of the Puxi section of the Expo site. The pavilion will include displays showing how the substation works. Visitors will be invited to venture into the substation.
The substation will be one of five - three in Pudong and two in Puxi - 110-kilowatt substations on the Expo site. They will ensure the power supply of the site during the 184-day event.
Electricity will not be a problem for the massive event as well as other areas in the city during Expo, says Teng Letian, chief engineer of the company.
The power supplier will invest 20 billion yuan (US$2.93 billion) this year to upgrade the city's electricity network, including building highly efficient substations and burying wires underground, with another 6 billion yuan for the five substations on the Expo site.
The State Grid Pavilion at Expo will cost 400-500 million yuan, the cost to be shared by Shanghai Electric and State Grid Corp of China, its parent company.
Steel work on the pavilion has been finished and all construction will be completed by the end of the year. A trial operation will start in March. Magic Box Highlight: A 20-meter-high cubic theater will provide an unprecedented 720-degree visual experience. It will come from screens fixed on the walls, ceiling and in the floor. What to see?
The natural scenery of China's mountains and rivers will be displayed by multimedia on the walls, ceiling and floors inside the pavilion.
Want to have fun?
The underground part will feature a working substation supplying power to parts of the Puxi section of the Expo site.
The pavilion will include displays showing how the substation works. Visitors will be invited to venture into the substation.
A "Tunnel of Electric Current" will connect each of the exhibitions where visitors are also expected to have a special experience that feels like moving inside the wires.4,000 sq m
The 4,000-square-meter pavilion is a metallic square with a crystal cube embedded inside.US$73.2 million
Costing 500 million yuan, the cost is shared by Shanghai Electric and State Grid Corp of China.
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