Expo 2020 Plaza - (BIG)

Plaza will be the heart of the Exhibition Center as well as the center of the future community of the legacy neighborhood. During the day it will serve to shade thousands of visitors as they congregate at the center of the exhibition between visits to the plethora of pavilions. At night it will become the arena for the rich program of performances and spectacles that will take place every night during the exhibition. Plaza site is of a comparable scale to landmark squares across the world familiar to every culture and religion ranging from the Arc de Triomphe to the Colosseum. From the Piazza San Pietro in Rome to the Al-Masjid al-Haram Mosque in Mecca. During the celebrations surrounding the expo it will be the gathering place for people of all Nations, all Religions, all Languages, all Cultures. Can we imagine a space that can set the stage for 20.000 people spectacles and also provide the framework for individual families? Plaza will be collective yet intimate, public yet personal. As part of the competition team from the beginning, I had various responsibilities from assisting with, concept generation, storyboarding to creating 3D for site and main plaza. I also parameterized design for quick prototypes, helped with digital fabrication and towards the end, all project visualizations.