Sustainability and AI from Germany at Expo 2020

Germany’s Expo 2020 Dubai pavilion will feature a “vertical campus” and the latest in sustainable design and artificial intelligence.

Campus Germany is the latest design to be revealed for the world expo at Dubai South.

Visitors will be taken on a tour by an invisible companion – an intelligent assistance system called IAMU.

Ernst Peter Fischer, German Ambassador to the UAE, unveiled the plans yesterday.

Designed by Cologne agency Facts and Fiction and Berlin architects Lava, Campus Germany will consist of modules that converge at a spacious atrium with a stage and restaurant. The structure aims to reflect the theme of knowledge, research and communication.

Dietmar Schmitz, commissioner general of the German Pavilion, said the pavilion was “designed to seamlessly combine exhibition and architecture, with a storyline that will grasp visitors’ interest and hold it from start to finish, inviting them to engage with the content and be actively involved in the experience”.

“When we took part in the expo in Shanghai, 95 per cent of the visitors came from China,” he said.

“It’s a fantastic opportunity in Dubai because the visitors are all going to be coming from different backgrounds. We believe the figure may be about 70 per cent of visitors coming from international backgrounds, this makes it a unique and fascinating opportunity.”

The German government has allocated Dh215 million for the pavilion.

Mr Schmitz said the sustainability theme was “an obvious choice, given that Germany is the place where the energy revolution, known as ‘energiewende’ was born”.