Osaka Pavilion

The proposal for the Spanish Pavilion at the 2025 Osaka World Expo is conceived as if it were a journey through time and space. Through time, because it traces and highlights Spain’s millennia-old tradition as a country of explorers of all seas, oceans, and far-off places. Through space, because the pavilion itself is designed as an encapsulated topography: a full-scale representation of the diversity, splendor, and richness of the country’s coastal and maritime landscapes, wrapped under a light translucent layer, reminiscent of the atmosphere.

Thus, more than a pavilion or an architectural object, the proposal is practically a complete landscape: dunes, hills, sands, rocks, crags, caves, cliffs, and reefs emerging among the different seas, intermingling with the exhibition “The Blue Horizon” that guides the entire tour. The displayed geology, sometimes rugged, abrupt, and dark, but also soft, sinuous, and radiant, serves as both the container and the content, so that the visitor is carried away by the currents of a fluid and resonant exhibition, which highlights and underscores the fertility of the relationships established in the marine environment over the centuries.