Austrian Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010 / SPAN and Zeytinoglu Architects

We’ve already featured the designs for the UAE Pavillion, Mexico Pavillion and Denmark Pavillion, for the Shanghai Expo 2010. Today, it’s time for the Austrian Pavillion. The competition for the design was won by Vienna based firms SPAN and Zeytinoglu Architects.

More images and architect’s description after the break.

‘The main driving force behind the design of the Austrian Pavilion for the expo in Shanghai 2010 can be described as acoustic forces, or more accurately as music. Music as a concept that reflects continuity in terms of architectural articulation  that seamlessly connects the various spaces within the program.

The embodiment  of the sonic conditions within the space manifest the architecture of the pavilion, which resonates to the rhythm of the video jockeys (VJs) performance – the conductor of the atmospheres within the main space. The rich history of austrian musical tradition makes it possible to create a performance program reaching from baroque music, to the classic area to the modern age to contemporary acts. The space unfurls from within the topological body, from the main space, the audience chamber, to the exterior epidermis. This process creates pockets, pochés that include the rest of the program such as shop, restaurant, office, and the VIP area.

Each one of those programmatic areas includes qualities co notated with the quality of living within austrian conurbations: music, culture, culinary expertise, urban textures, opulent landscapes and lavish foliages.’ – Matias del Campo, SPAN