Expo 2020 Entry Portals
A precedent for monumental public gateways utilizing extremely fine structural lattices to create shimmering, semi-transparent thresholds over infrastructure.
- What we like about this project
- The lattice density is so fine that solid-looking volumes completely dissolve into transparent veils depending on the sun angle.
Materials
- carbon-fiber
- composite-lattice
- steel
Visual identifiers
- carbon-fiber-lattice
- gateway-portal
- layered-cubes
- infrastructure-bridge
Style tags
- high-tech
- minimalist
- structural
Visual tags
- monumental
- lattice
- transparent-mass
- infrastructure
- gateway
- Geometry
- Three colossal nested cubic lattice volumes span above a multi-lane roadway, creating an expansive gateway portal with layered transparency.
- Facade system
- Three-dimensional ultra-lightweight carbon fiber composite space-frame lattice.
- Structural guess
- Advanced composite space-frame lattice acting as a self-supporting structural shell spanning across highway piers.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; multiple stories high, spanning across wide multi-lane elevated roadway infrastructure.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with the sun setting directly behind the central lattice layers, casting silhouette profiles and glowing pinpricks of light through the mesh.
- Atmosphere
- Ethereal, monumental, and weightless despite massive scale against the desert sunset.
- Environmental context
- Open infrastructure highway corridor under vast desert twilight sky, with distant urban silhouettes.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching vehicles and pedestrians pass underneath and through monumental filtered volumes that compress sky views into dense geometric screens.
- Composition rhythm
- Extremely dense, repeating micro-truss grid geometry creating optical moire effects across layers.
- Style reading
- High-tech structural minimalism
- Program
- Exhibition entry portal / public gateway
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- carbon-fiber, composite-lattice, steel
- Visual identifiers
- carbon-fiber-lattice, gateway-portal, layered-cubes, infrastructure-bridge
- Style tags
- high-tech, minimalist, structural
- Visual tags
- monumental, lattice, transparent-mass, infrastructure, gateway
- Geometry
- Three colossal nested cubic lattice volumes span above a multi-lane roadway, creating an expansive gateway portal with layered transparency.
- Facade system
- Three-dimensional ultra-lightweight carbon fiber composite space-frame lattice.
- Structural guess
- Advanced composite space-frame lattice acting as a self-supporting structural shell spanning across highway piers.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; multiple stories high, spanning across wide multi-lane elevated roadway infrastructure.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with the sun setting directly behind the central lattice layers, casting silhouette profiles and glowing pinpricks of light through the mesh.
- Atmosphere
- Ethereal, monumental, and weightless despite massive scale against the desert sunset.
- Environmental context
- Open infrastructure highway corridor under vast desert twilight sky, with distant urban silhouettes.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching vehicles and pedestrians pass underneath and through monumental filtered volumes that compress sky views into dense geometric screens.
- Composition rhythm
- Extremely dense, repeating micro-truss grid geometry creating optical moire effects across layers.
- Style reading
- High-tech structural minimalism
- Program
- Exhibition entry portal / public gateway
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture