dutch pavilion | osaka 2025 world expo

Experience Pavilion

studio | FABRICations + Bellprat Partner software | rhino 7, grasshopper, enscape, adobe illustrator & photoshop team | Olv Klijn, Eric Frijters, Wesley Verhoeven, Lefkothea Spartioti, Dayle Chen

In collaboration with Bellprat Partner, this project was completed as a competition entry during a work term with FABRICations in Amsterdam.

Per the project desciption: ground floor plan long elevation

This design for the Dutch pavilion shows a country that has learned to live together below sea level. It shows the way in which inventiveness in the Netherlands is linked to a sense of community and openness in order to achieve ambitious goals under seemingly impossible conditions, a quality that we will need in more and more places. After all, life below sea level is a future for a rapidly increasing number of densely populated areas on earth.

We need new safety nets to enable communities to move with the influences of nature. In the Dutch Pavilion, this safety net literally becomes part of the design. By stretching different nets around the requested program and between the water roof - sea level - and the ground floor, the possibility is created not only to harvest water, but also to let it circulate endlessly through the entire pavilion. The result is a pleasant intermediate climate with minimal energy demand and a fascinating spatial experience.