Expo 2020 Dubai Russian Pavilion Building, Architect, UAE Design Project Photos
Expo 2020 Dubai Russian Pavilion Design
19 October 2021
Design: SPEECH architectural office
Unveiling the Russian Pavilion Building at Expo Dubai 2020

Photos by Ilya Ivanov
Russian Pavilion at EXPO 2020 Dubai
EXPO 2020 takes place in Dubai. The exhibition territory is divided into three thematic districts: Opportunity, Mobility, and Sustainability. Russian Pavilion?s moto is ?Creative mind: driving the future?. Situated in the Mobility district, the Russia Pavilion develops precisely this theme.

In embodying the image of the national pavilion, Sergei Tchoban, the architect of the project, set out to convey in the building?s compositional design the idea of constant movement as the prerequisite for unstoppable progressive development, creation, and progress. The pavilion is in the form of two hemispheres, one inside the other. The two hemispheres are domes embodying the image of Planet Russia and symbolizing wholeness and universality.
?With our project,? says Sergei Tchoban, the project?s author, ?we set out to tackle several very important objectives. First, to propose a spectacular volume whose architecture would express the theme of this section of the exhibition and simultaneously contain associations with Russia as a great country. One such association is the way the small domed volume sits inside the larger: this may be modern and emphatically dynamic, but it also resembles the traditi...