Hana Al Hammadi (Abu Dhabi)
The pavilions participating in Expo 2020 celebrate a lot of innovations that push the visitor to discover many more secrets about design, innovation and sustainability. Which accompanies him when he enters the place and discovers when to use it, so many of the audience are waiting for his turn to enter eagerly to discover what the Kingdom Pavilion is in store.
The Netherlands pavilion at the exhibition showcases its green nature, especially the most beautiful types of flowers. It also provides some geographical information about the kingdom, which is located in northwestern Europe, and takes Amsterdam as its capital, and is characterized by being low and flat, and includes large areas of canals, lakes and rivers. In addition to the presence of large areas of reclaimed land, which turned from a barren desert to green.
Milestones of life
Upon entering the pavilion, the visitor must stop to watch a large screen showing life in Holland, and when he finishes watching the display, a large door opens with a series of rings distributed on its land that prompt the visitor to choose the appropriate place to stand on it, waiting to be allowed to open the “solar” that just Opening it, the features of life and sustainability in the Kingdom of the Netherlands become clear, as the lighting that is emitted in the cone ceiling shows the Kingdom of the Netherlands in all its details and its dependence on water, energy and food, and the pavilion is decorated with a vertical cone-shaped farm.
Dutch culture
In the center of the pavilion, the visitor can see a vertical farm in the form of a cone, where the organizers planted about 3000 seedlings, all of which are fed with limited amounts of water and live on sunlight, which gave the pavilion a special shape, while its entrance is decorated with an hourglass designed by artist Atelier van Lischaut, Its movement changes itself, and the interior designs of the pavilion have the distinction of reflecting Dutch art, and everything in it bears the fingerprints of a number of Dutch artists, who sought a historical and cultural narrative, and worked to present it to the world in a modern way.
Fashion
In the Netherlands, there is a distinctive costume made of the best types of fabric and fabric, and it is worn on special occasions and days. The traditional dress for men is made of woolen trousers with a set of silver buttons on the upper front, a shirt and jacket, and a hat whose shape and design vary according to different The region, while the traditional dress for women is a long “skirt”, some of which are drawn with lines and others without lines, and a blouse or jacket with long or short sleeves, and a piece can be added to be placed on the shoulder such as a shawl or an embroidered scarf, and the dress includes hats that differ according to the region.
rain experience
The Dutch pavilion consists of two floors. Passion, during which the show tells the story of the Dutch bioenvironment, which, through its design, seeks to implement the principles of sustainability. And access to the basement, will be through a long corridor, accompanied by the sounds of the sea and various other, characterized as being real sounds recorded in the Netherlands and transferred to Dubai.
Sunglaser Technologies developed the solar-powered rain shower, a Dutch innovation that allows us to collect hundreds of liters of water in our pavilion every day. Ordinary, by supplying electricity to the Saint Glacier innovation.
Kitchen
The history of the Netherlands, with its different cultures, has contributed to the formation of the cuisine, which is characterized by its simplicity in the composition of its dishes and direct in the ways of preparation and methods of presentation and eating, as its dishes contain many vegetables and little meat, and the Netherlands is famous for the production of cheese, and it is not surprising that you will find entire shops and stores specializing in Selling hundreds of types of cheese.
tulips
The Netherlands is a leader in the field of flower marketing globally, due to the large number of its products from plants, flowers, ornamental trees, and flowering tulips. More than three quarters of the flowering bulbs traded around the world come from the Netherlands, and most of them are tulips. With tulips in particular, in addition to various types of flowers, including the cup of water, Dutch flowers and saffron, which grow in abundance due to the favorable climate.
sustainability
The central design of the Dutch Pavilion focuses on sustainability. The 18-meter-high cone-shaped structure of the Dutch Pavilion, dubbed the “food cone,” is covered with a variety of food plants, while oyster mushrooms surround the cone from the inside.
The commercial establishments feature Porro Bellin pleated curtains made of biodegradable textile materials, 44 meters wide and 14 meters long. The acoustic floor and wall tiles designed by Mojo are made of 650 square meters of bio-mycelial material, which represents the vegetal part of the «Mushrooms».
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