Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion is approaching completion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, which opens May 1st. Seed Cathedral expresses British creativity and environmental engagement as it explores the relationship between nature and city. Check it out!!!
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Lead Designer: Heatherwick Studio
Key Construction Materials: steel and timber composite structure, 60,000 fiber optic filaments, aluminum sleeves
Site area: 6000 square meters
Seed Cathedral dimensions: 25m x 25m x 20m
Seed Cathedral floor area: 105 square meters
Optic fibers: 60,588
Optic fibers length: 7.5 meters
Seeds in Seed Cathedral: 217,300
Landscape area: 4490 square meters
Public park area: 2405 square meters
Accommodation area: 1525 square meters
Exhibition area: 1280 square meters
Via: Yatzer
I heard details of your work on BBC World Service “The Strand” and HAD to see it. WOW! My only disappointment in looking at the still photos is that I missed the wind’s effect on the “filaments” extending from the structure. I hope you will put together a moving picture/video of the building in motion, and day vs. night views, etc., etc. That a human being could imagine this structure and then figure out how to construct it (combined with the “terrace” around it) is a phenomenon that must be documented for everyone’s inspiration – present and future; only seeing a still picture has breathed new life into the adage “anything is possible” for me. Thank you!