Hanover Expo
The Holland Pavilion at the Hanover Expo in 2000 was designed by MVRDV. The pavilion was designed to be a stacked tower of landscape conditions emblematic of those in Holland. The five stories of the pavilion contained representations of everything from forests to flower production fields to polders, and were united by water elements. The pavilion was meant to express the fact that most of the land in Holland was created through human intervention, yet it does not seem overtly artificial.
Visitors moved through the pavilion from the top, accessed by elevator, and the most immediately expressive example of a natural condition, to the bottom, where man-made intervention in the landscape condition was most apparent. The complexity of creating a variety of landscapes and conditions in a stacked structure involved a high degree of innovative structural and landscape architectural know-how. Somewhat like an inverted green roof, the Holland Pavilion can also be seen as a precedent for the idea of the vertical farm.
Visitors moved through the pavilion from the top, accessed by elevator, and the most immediately expressive example of a natural condition, to the bottom, where man-made intervention in the landscape condition was most apparent. The complexity of creating a variety of landscapes and conditions in a stacked structure involved a high degree of innovative structural and landscape architectural know-how. Somewhat like an inverted green roof, the Holland Pavilion can also be seen as a precedent for the idea of the vertical farm.
