Award
German Design Award, 2025
Gold
Excellence in Architecture - Fairs and Exhibitions
2025
Uzbekistan Pavilion "Garden of Knowledge," Expo 2025 Osaka
Location
Osaka, Japan
Year
2025
Products
Pavilions and roadshows
The Uzbekistan Pavilion, titled “How to Live in the Future and How to Be Happy,” at Expo 2025 in Osaka combined sustainable architecture, immersive exhibition design, and interactive experiences to create a striking national pavilion. NUSSLI was responsible for the construction and installation of all exhibition elements and precisely implemented the immersive and interactive content. After the Expo concluded, the temporary pavilion was dismantled.
Sustainable Exhibition with Modular Architecture
The Expo Pavilion guided visitors through an indoor and outdoor area spanning approximately 840 square meters, focusing on themes such as knowledge, innovation, and social change. The exhibition combined modular and reusable wooden installations with symbolic design elements, thereby creating an event architecture that was both sustainable and impressive.
The Uzbekistan Pavilion impresses with its precise and tactile materiality, which authentically conveys cultural identity and is consistently staged. Its sustainable design is evident both in the choice of resource-efficient materials and in its circular logic. The spatial experience creates a powerful dramatic effect and intuitively connects visitors with the content and the people behind it. The successful exhibition design thus creates a coherent overall picture that convincingly translates local narratives into a global context.
A symbolic garden and central sculpture defined the pavilion
A central feature of the exhibition was a symbolic garden, complemented by a forest of columns and a central sculpture that connected the various areas of the pavilion. Each element of the exhibition was designed to convey both Uzbekistan’s cultural heritage and its visions for the future. This created a cohesive visitor experience with a strong narrative character.
Stefan Schilling
Stefan Schilling
Stefan Schilling
Precise implementation of all exhibition elements
The immersive environment invited guests to actively participate in the exhibition and reflect on future ways of life and social change. Interactive components encouraged reflection and engagement, transforming the national pavilion into an inspiring space for experience within Expo 2025 Osaka.
The Uzbekistan Pavilion was part of a series of international Expo projects that NUSSLI realized for Expo 2025 Osaka. These included, among others, the national pavilions of Austria, Brazil, Kuwait and Switzerland. The diverse pavilion concepts impressively demonstrated NUSSLI’s versatility in implementing sustainable architecture, immersive exhibitions, and temporary experiential environments for international world expos.
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Award
Kategorie
Status
Jahr
Award
World Expo Awards , 2025
Winner
Editor’s Choice Awards
2025
Award
The Red Dot Award 2025, 2025
Best of the Best
Brands & Communication Design
2025
Award
World Expo Awards , 2025
Winner
Best Activity / Interactive
2025
Award
World Expo Awards , 2025
Honorable Mention
Best Interpretation of Expo Theme
2025
Award
Fassa Bortolo International Award, 2025
Honorable Mention
Sustainable Architecture
2025
Award
IDA Design Awards, 2025
Honorable Mention
Other Architectural Designs/Conceptual Architectural Designs
2025
Award
BIE Day Ceremony of Prizes and Awards, 2025
Gold
Theme Development
2025
Award
Architecture Masterprize 2025, 2025
Best of Best
Cultural Architecture
2025
Award
ADC Competition 2026, 2026
Gold
Spatial Experience / Concept for Spatial Experience / Architecture, Public & Urban Design / Architectural Installations
2026
Award
ADC Competition 2026, 2026
Spatial Experience / Concept for Spatial Experience / Exhibition / Museum & Pavilion Design
Gold
2026
The Uzbekistan Pavilion impressively showcases the country’s cultural heritage, the evolution of the Uzbek nation, and innovative visions for the future through a concept that offers an experience both fascinating and holistic. Outstanding, highly aesthetic, and sustainable architecture is combined with clear, engaging communication of information and a seamlessly integrated technological implementation within the exhibition. The jury agrees that this work sets new standards in this category with its implementation of the central theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives.”
Award-Winning Pavilion Projects by NUSSLI
With four national pavilions honored at the BIE Awards, NUSSLI was among the most successful companies at Expo 2025 Osaka. The award-winning Expo projects impressed both the jury and visitors alike with their sustainable construction concepts, interactive installations, and impressive exhibition experiences.
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