Graduation Project ( Expo- Egypt)

Decor Department, Interior Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Mansoura University.

Project idea

( Expo- Egypt) is an international exhibition to display innovations and inventions in the field of technology, and it has become a creative laboratory that blends architecture with the environment to serve humanity.
For more than 175 years, the International Expo exhibitions have been a platform for exploiting the most important innovations that shaped the world we know today.

Project description

Blending different world cultures and their context within a modern civilizational framework
With modernity by abstracting the symbols and lines that express every culture.
“Each pavilion tells the story of a country and a center connected to the world.”
Design lines of the project
The design was based on the abstract, flowing lines of sandbanks, and the distinctive lines of different styles, and combining them with decorative elements of different cultures’ styles.

Technical information

Plaza Square (representing the North African region), the pavilion of the host country, Egypt, with the ancient Egyptian character
The events arena is a dome made of steel and covered with dual-view panoramic screens with RGP projectors and lighting elements. The design lines of the dome came from an analysis of one of the ancient Egyptian symbols, which is the sun disk in its radiant form, and the dome’s columns are from an analysis of the lines of the lotus flower.

The CONSTRUCTION of the building is mainly STEEL STRUCTURE including trusses, rafts and barriers. Two main materials are used for internal and external finishes which are GRC (glass reinforced concrete) and GRP (glass reinforced plastic) with veneers of timber or other alternatives of thickness from 0.5 mm to 3 mm. (GRP) .