Case Studies

Lay Koon Ng
Jan 27, 2021
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Course: ID Application 2

Week: 2

Title: Research about SuperSpatial Reinvents E-waste for the Korean Pavilion at Expo 2020

Designer: SuperSpatial X Joon Ma

One of the 6 finalists for the South Korean Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai.

The expo is an opportunity to display the interconnectivity between digital and physical engineering that allows for our future reality to come. By investigating the contrast between hardware and software, the intangible lightness of the cloud and the invisible hardware behind it.

The design explores the future of e-waste through an architecture that re-uses thousands of obsolete computer parts as a construction material. Shaped as an amphitheater for temporary events and an occasion to think about the global problem of e-waste by using a pavilion as a critical medium.

The ground of the expo is made from e-waste materials that is physically manifested in the form of a topography. Obsolete hardware forms a platform of display for the much anticipated digital technologies to come in the full volume resting on the amphitheater. Within the pavilion, visitors can meander around and create their own paths as the pavilion is strategically designed to be used as a tool to connect people.

Within the pavilion, visitors can meander around and create their own paths as the pavilion is strategically designed to be used as a tool to connect people.

Drawing of the pavilion