An experience designed to raise the visitor’s awareness and call him or her to take action. The Germany Pavilion aims to do both: indeed the theme of Germany’s participation in the Universal Exhibition is Field of Ideas, but the motto of the Pavilion is Bee Active, a play on words that invites visitors to be as busy as bees.
And the fields in Germany must be truly lush with ideas: indeed, the exhibition itinerary makes use of all its architectural elements to get its message across. Starting from the staircase leading visitors up to the terrace, made of steps of different kinds of wood (all from Germany), which resemble cultivated fields when viewed from above.
This landscape is home to stylized plants, “seedlings of ideas” that rise from the exhibition space up to the exterior surface, opening out on to a large roof of textile foliage. These leaves host ultra-light photovoltaic panels. The terrace is complete with exhibitions on the characteristics of the 16 Länder of the federation.
