, leading a team that includes designer Casson Mann, structural engineer Adams Kara Taylor and environmental engineer Atelier Ten has won the competition to design the UK pavilion for Shanghai Expo in 2010. The uniqueness of Heatherwick's concept lies in its integration of technology with a sensory experience for visitors.
The winning concept – a Pavilion of Ideas – creates a single, stunning enclosure clad in a mass of spines that hovers without apparent visible support above a public square. Each spine is tipped with a tiny coloured light source which can be programmed with a variety of images, colours and messages. The spines move freely in the breeze to create a living patterned façade. Its inner and outer surfaces can integrate presentations within the pavilion with ever changing messages and images on the outside. Using interactive technology, visitors will be invited to add ideas that can be used in real time to change the presentations.
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