100 best corten steel arhitectures around the world--01.australia pavilion in expo 2010

About the building material--corten steel

Corten Steel, a speical and widely used steel material, it has an outstanding visual expression.Its color brightness and saturation is higher than the general structure materials. In addition, the rough surface caused by steel corrosion makes the structure more volume and quality.

About the Expo 2010

Expo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010, over 73 million people had visited the Expo. There were about 329 pavilions from over 200 countries in the Expo.

About The Australia Pavilion

The Australia Pavilion plays a different tune, closer to a singular gesture, a resonant object of powerful allusions rather than direct references. Like Australia itself, this building is big. Built from concrete and corten steel, it’s heavy, ground-based, low-tech, strong.

The use of Corten steel sheet gives the building its robust and rough nature, like a ground surface. Interestingly, it is used on at least two other pavilions on the site, but these do not have the presence of the Australian building.

The pavilion was to design an abstract sculptural form that references the red centre of Australia(The Alice Springs), through both the shape of the building and the ochre tones of the corten steel cladding.

The inner side of the building,it is threaded by a system of glass tubes that wind their way through to a different beat. Housing the 160-metre long circulation ramp, the tubes are an expressed out come of the process of circulation that dominates these buildings – there is a lot of queuing.