Floating Pavilion at World Expo 2010

TU Delft Deltasync team and the municipality of Rotterdam presented the design for a floating pavilion to the World Expo Committee in Shanghai. Sixty officials and three Chinese television channels were present as the team explained how they have applied their vision of a floating city to Shanghai, and in particular to the World Expo 2010.



Innovative strengths
Constructing a floating pavilion is an attractive project bringing together a host of Dutch innovative water and delta technology strengths, to demonstrate them to the world. Given that half of the world’s population will live in low-lying, vulnerable delta areas by 2030, floating is a favourable technology. Other sustainable technologies can also be applied in a floating pavilion, such as local drinking water purification and sustainable energy supplies.