More than two million palm branches tell the Emirates story in "Expo Osaka"

Osaka, April 13 / WAM / in a unique optical scene that embodies the meeting of heritage with innovation, the UAE’s wing rises in the “Expo 2025 Osaka – Kansai” in a charming forest body of wooden columns, in an architectural masterpiece built with more than two million branches of palm trees collected from all over the Middle East and North Africa, to tell a story that inspires the symbol of generosity and steadfastness in Emirati culture.

The design of the pavilion, which carries the slogan “From Earth to Ether”, consists of 90 tall wooden columns up to 16 meters high to form a visual forest that celebrates sustainability and human innovation, and is brilliantly mixed between ancient Emirati handicrafts and elaborate Japanese carpentry techniques.

The facades of this national edifice are decorated with the recycled dates, to present to the world a unique Emirati vision that combines originality, sustainability and architectural imagination, by using toward tinnitus of this renewable material in the design of the pavilion and its entrances, which reflects the importance of the presence of the palm not only as a symbol of Emirati identity, but as a constructive material that is renewed and re -formulated to narrate the story of a homeland that reinvent its inheritance in the spirit of the future.

In statements to the Emirates News Agency, Sheikha Al -Ketbi, Creative Director and Deputy Commissioner -General of the Emirates Pavilion, confirmed that the design of the pavilion is based on recycling natural materials with direct connection with the local environment, pointing to the use of innovative environmentally friendly materials such as “Diet Crete” to pave the floors at the entrance to the pavilion, which is a sustainable alternative to cement made of crushed dates nuclei, which is a pure Emirati innovation.

It also highlighted the “Diet Form”, which was developed from palm waste and dates, and was used in the design of various elements of the wing, including the “memorial wing logo”.

Al -Ketbi explained that the design of the pavilion is the fruit of creative cooperation between Emirati, Japanese and global multidisciplinary companies within a group “from land to ether”, where various experiences were merged into architecture, engineering, technology, carpentry and design crafts, under the supervision and leadership of the “Expo Emirates” team, and the group succeeded in integrating creative partners, including the Italian company Raymond, and Atelier Brookner, And a vision, in addition to the global SLA studio.

The company, which includes Japanese experts in the carpentry, worked to develop an innovative supply chain in cooperation with the Arab region’s farmers to collect palm waste, and designed internal interventions dedicated to using this sustainable material, while the Japanese company Cellheter took over the 90 distinctive columns of the wing.

As for the natural spaces of the UAE pavilion, they were designed to reflect a harmonious cultural dialogue, where the Japanese “Satoyama” forests are represented by oak and red pine trees that decorate the facade, harmonious coexistence between nature and man, and visitors enjoy the shadow of the “Pergola” roof made of Japanese cedar wood, shaded with patterns of Emirati “wicker”, which is a traditional art to weave the essence Palm.

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