Hamburg Messe und Congress as implementing company for World Expos
Floriade Expo 2022 in Almere
From April 14 to October 9, 2022, the Floriade Expo took place in Almere near Amsterdam. The Dutch Horticultural Expo is themed “Growing Green Cities” with the sub-themes “Green”, “Food”, “Health” and “Energy”. Floriade Expo 2022 had set itself the goal of raising awareness of sustainability in cities worldwide and presenting various solutions. Therefore, the participating countries and institutions set up gardens and pavilions on the 60-hectare Expo site.
The responsible Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) had commissioned the Expo-experienced Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH with the planning, organization and implementation of the official German Garden at Floriade Expo 2022.
The German Garden: “BIOTOPIA – Growing Community”
Within the framework of an EU-wide call for tenders, the consortium consisting of insglück Gesellschaft für Markeninszenierung mbH, gtp2 Architekten and studio grüngrau Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH was awarded the contract for the concept development, planning and realisation of the interior and exterior design of the German Garden.
The German Garden reflected a biotope that is constantly growing and developing. The guiding principle for this was the utopia of sustainable, healthy living in the cities of the future. With the motto “BIOTOPIA - Growing Community”, the German contribution invited people to think further, build further and grow further together.
The two-storey pavilion consisted of an extraordinary architecture made of wooden profiles with a lush facade planting where the plants grew along the building front. Thus, the indoor and outdoor spaces merged into each other. The building wrapped around the plot boundaries and encloses the atrium at the heart of the site.
Former Expo-participations of HMC as implementation company
2019 | German Garden – Beijing, PR China | 2012 | German Pavillon – Yeosu, South Korea |
2017 | German Pavillon – Astana, Kazakhstan | 2010 | Hamburg House – Shanghai, PR China |
2016 | German Garden – Antalya, Turkey | 2008 | German Pavillon – Zaragoza, Spain |
Photo credit:
Header: © Hamburg Messe und Congress / Jürgen Nerger
Photos: © Floriade Expo | © German Garden Floriade Expo 2022 | © German Garden EXPO 2019 Beijing | © German Pavilion Expo 2017 Astana