Slovenia

Architecture SoNo Arhitekti
Area 800 sq m
The outline of SoNo Arhitekti's jagged, prismatic wooden structure is intended to evoke a ploughed field, in a pavilion designed to showcase the region's diverse landscape and robust approach to healthy living. The slogan 'I Feel Slovenia. Green. Active. Healthy' is expounded in a variety of exhibition rooms that are big on white space and dramatic set pieces and light on useful information.

A bee-related installation features a couple of film screens and an entire wall of pulsating hexagonal mirror tiles. Another area promoting Slovenia's light aircraft industry with one of its Pipistrel light planes suspended from the ceiling, along with a wall full of wooden propellers. Visitors are offered an opportunity to blow into a funnel. Those who do so are gratified by seeing the propellers move slightly.

The idea is to convince us of how much less carbon-hungry light aircraft technology is than commercial aircraft. Something of a no-brainer as an exhibition. But a striking building.

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