Eden Project North, UK
This project re-imagines Morecambe as a seaside resort for the 21st Century, inspiring wonder and a connection with the natural world.
Terra, the Sustainability Pavilion, Expo 2020, Dubai
Eden has co-led the landscape design and visitor experience for Terra, the Sustainability Pavilion, the green centrepiece of the Dubai Expo 2020, which will now take place in 2021/22 due to the pandemic.
This will be the first Eden Project to open outside Cornwall and will showcase the Eden ethos to an estimated 25 million visitors during the Expo's 182-day duration.
Eden's Terra vision
Our vision for the pavilion
Terra is a demonstration of ground-breaking technology and innovative landscaping, providing an extraordinary adventure that explores our individual and collective responsibilities as citizens on a changing planet.
Visitors to the breathtaking pavilion will be taken on a journey telling the enchanting story of humankind’s relationship with nature and our impact on it. The experience is designed to empower visitors to understand the effects of their actions and become agents of change.
Its grounds will feature a variety of sustainable innovations, including inventive irrigation techniques, a greywater recycling system, local plants to reduce water use by 75 per cent, "energy trees" equipped with solar panels that rotate like a sunflower to face the sun and a water tree that will produce water from the surrounding air.
As part of legacy plans, the building will remain at District 2020 - the new city which will evolve from the Expo site - as a centre for children to engage with science, educating and inspiring generations to come.
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Photo: Dany Eid/Expo 2020
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Explore Sustainability at Expo 2020
The experience
Stats
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4,912
The number of solar panels on the canopy of Terra, the Sustainability Pavilion. -
5.5 megawatts
The renewable energy generated by permanent buildings on the Dubai Expo 2020 site. -
95%
...of the landscaped areas of the Dubai Expo 2020 site are managed without chemical pesticides, herbicides or fertiliser. -
85%
...of waste created during construction, operation and decommissioning will be diverted from landfill.
Dubai Expo 2020
Dubai Expo 2020
Expo 2020 Dubai will be the first Expo to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia and is the latest in a 170 year history of World Expos, which began with The Great Exhibition in London in 1851. Expos bring countries together to celebrate national achievement and provide a platform for innovation and global cooperation.
Did you know?
Dubai Expo 2020 aims to be carbon neutral.
Expo 2020 Dubai will boast more than 190 country pavilions alongside special Expo-owned pavilions which will act as centrepeices for each district of the Expo - Sustainability, Mobility and Opportunity.
Expos have left a lasting mark on their host nations and cities, with the Eiffel Tower in Paris being built for 1889's Exposition Universelle and since becoming a defining landmark of the city. Other iconic Expo buildings include the Space Needle in Seattle, built for the 1962 Century 21 Exposition, and the world's first Ferris wheel was built for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
The Expo 2020 Dubai site will live long after the exhibition finishes in March 2022, as it transitions in District 2020. This sustainable, human-centric smart city will reuse at least 80 per cent of the ifrastructure built for Expo, including LEED Gold and Platinum-certified buildings. As it transforms into an integrated mixed-use community, it will carry on and fulfill Expo's founding vision to be an ecosystem to connect, create and innovate.
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Expo 2020 Dubai: A Site to Behold
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