Better City, Better Life
“balancity”, the title of the German contribution, is devoted to the subject of “balance” within the framework of the Expos’s motto “Better city, Better Life”. It looks at the equilibrium that the sustaining elements of a city must form in order to make it a place worth living in. At first sight, this balance can be seen in the pavilion – in its balance between the separate construction elements. When looked at separately, they seem unstable. As an ensemble, they hold each other in perfect equilibrium, expressing the architectural idea.
Overall Responsibility:
German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Bonn
Organisation and Operation:
Koelnmesse International GmbH, Cologne
Design, planning and realization:
Consortium German Pavilion Shanghai
General planning contractors and architects:
Schmidhuber + Kaindl GmbH, Munich
Architectural design:
SCHMIDHUBER, München
Exhibition:
Milla and Partner GmbH, Stuttgart
Construction: NUSSLI (Germany), Roth
Local partner:
he playze, Shanghai
Architectural Lighting Design: E³ Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Altenbeken
Photographer:
Andreas Keller, Altdorf