EXPO 2020 Aurora: Nuovo Masterplans/Community Project
Sustainable Living for a Sustainable Future
ABOUT THE EXPO
Welcome to the EXPO 2020 Aurora City Thread, a fictional World Expo set in my future city of Aurora ( Under Planning Stage ), mostly inspired by the recently concluded Shanghai 2010 World Expo. EXPO 2020 Aurora's central theme is sustainable living for a sustainable future, a call for nations and their people to shift into healthier and more sustainable lifestyles so as to benefit both themselves and the planet. The logo is a graphical representation of this theme with nature's colors comprising its color palette and the side profile of a leaf representing sustainable living.
The EXPO Aurora also functions as a testing ground in planning my city, and thus, I would be designing the majority of the structures and deciding most of the planning in it, like roads, landscaping and etc. To give you all a better perspective of what I have done so far, here's a site map of the EXPO grounds.
As you can see, this won't be a large EXPO like the real-life Shanghai counterpart. It only has space for 30 pavilions and some other structures. You'll also notice how there's quite lush landscaping for I want this to be a really 'green' expo. The small EXPO size can be attributed to my low RAM and depleting HD space. It has to be small to accommodate more detail. However, I won't go all detailed here and will instead try to achieve a balance between details and textures. I'll also concentrate less on photo-realism and more on visuals.
PAVILIONS: A COMMUNITY PROJECT
And now the fun part. Since this is a rather hard undertaking, I won't be able to design all the pavilions, and it'd be rather unfair if I do pavilions for other countries, so I'm opening this project to the residents of the 3D Forum. I'm inviting you to design a pavilion for your respective nations to represent your country for the EXPO. There would be some rules to follow of course.
RULES FOR PAVILION DESIGN
1. Stick to the theme and try to be cohesive with it with your designs.
2. Try to inject as much of your country's culture into your pavilions.
3. Try to achieve a balance with detail and textures. Don't go too detailed but don't do an entirely textured design as well.
4. As much as possible, keep the pavilion file size at 2.5 MB. Skp files only.
5. Follow the dimensions of the plot squares allotted to avoid problems. Maximum pavilion heights is 15 M
6. When sending the pavilion, attach a brief explanation with it.
7. And the most important rule, let loose all your creativity! Haha!
And here are the plots (not to scale) in graphical forms. I will continually update this whenever a slot is taken to avoid slot problems. Please notify me and this thread first before one takes a slot to avoid problems. Also, if there are concerns regarding continent allotments and stuff, don't hesitate to comment and I'll see what I can do. Being the host nation, I will be designing the Philippine pavilion, but those who want to participate can also do pavilions of countries and doesn't have to be necessarily your home nation though ideally it would be better.
DOWNLOAD PLOTS HERE
You can download the entire site map and pick a plot. However, when you send your pavilion, do not send me back the entire site map again and just the pavilion. Upload your download links in this thread so I can download it for placement in the site.
http://www.filesend.net/download.php...bc8876f3316e7a
http://www.sendspace.com/file/pe6yio
I'll also be creating a similar thread in SkyscraperCity so I can involve more people and hopefully, get more pavilion designs to complete the project so continually check up on updates to avoid confusion. The project doesn't end when all the slots get filled. I'll work on animations and renders of the completed project with people and events to add a semblance of life to it. And also, like in the real EXPO, I'll set up a poll with regards to Best Pavilion Design. The EXPO will be part of my city so all our efforts won't go to waste.
I'm looking forward to your participation. Please post concerns and comments, and also whether you'd like to participate or not. I hope this becomes a successful project for the 3D Forum community!
So that's all for now. Will be posting new updates tomorrow, a short tour of the site and what's built so far.
-burjdubai91