Acciona Producciones y Diseño will carry out the Spanish Pavilion at the Astana Expo 2017

With a surface of 868 m2 in which the past will be shown, present and future of the exploitation of natural resources in Spain, as well as the sustainable use of the planet and its energy sources, will have several types of audiovisual systems, immersive, sensory and synchronized.

Spanish Cultural Action (Ac/e), public body responsible for managing the presence of Spain in the Universal and International Exhibitions, has selected Acciona Productions and Design (APD), next to Frade Arquitectos, to carry out the design and execution of the pavilion that will represent Spain in the Astana International Exhibition 2017 (Kazakhstan), which will take place 10 from June to 10 September.

Besides, APD will also be responsible for the museum execution of two floors of the National Pavilion of Kazakhstan that, as host country, will be the nerve center of this expo whose theme is 'Energy for the future'.

Specifically, The Spanish Pavilion will have as its leitmotiv the motto 'Spain, energy for the planet' and the contents will focus on disseminating the relevance of the problem of climate change and the initiatives to fight against it that are being carried out in our country.

With a surface of 868 m2, distributed on a single floor with a height of 8 metros, in this space the past will be shown, present and future of the exploitation of natural resources in Spain, as well as the need to return, through innovation, to treat the planet and its energy sources responsibly and sustainably.

The central space of the pavilion will be conceived as a large plaza or forum, around which there is a group of houses from different periods in the history of Spain, that will show a metaphorical representation of the 'global village'.

Visitors will delve into their tour of the Spanish pavilion on a journey in which they will discover the great global village, from the perspective of the exploitation of national natural resources, as well as treating the planet and its energy sources responsibly, under the premise of sustainability. The Spanish Pavilion will be located in cluster C1, located north of the Astana Expo site, along with that of Germany, Monaco and Holland.

National Pavilion of Kazakhstan

Besides, APD has also been awarded the development and museographic implementation of the first and second floors of the National Pavilion of Kazakhstan, expo host country, designed as a sphere with eight levels; each of them dedicated to a type of energy: hydraulics, from space, solar and wind, biomass and kinetics. At the last level, visitors will be informed about the future of Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan in 2050.

APD is responsible for the execution of the exhibition area, of 2,400m2, at the base of the 'Sphere', where the National Pavilion is located, and the second level, dedicated to hydraulic energy, with a surface of 800 m2. This pavilion will be the nerve center of the event and has been designed to house the Energy Museum, of a permanent nature.

The Astana International Exhibition 2017 plans to gather, between the 10 of June and 10 September, a 130 official participants, con 112 states and 18 international organizations (many of them dedicated to the field of energy), and attract more than three million visitors.