Uzbekistan Pavilion “Garden of Knowledge”Osaka Expo 2025
Created by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation
Design by Atelier BRÜCKNER
Built by NUSSLI Group
Uzbekistan’s gardens have long been hubs for cultural exchange, reflection, and social gathering. Built with brick, clay, and sugi cedar, the Pavilion reimagines this heritage.
The Uzbekistan Pavilion's wooden upper level is intended to emulate a garden filled with trees, which has grown upwards from a brick-clad base representing soil and the earth.
Each column sourced locally from forests in Osaka. There are NFC tags on the columns, which visitors can tap with their smartphones to discover the forest from which each one was sourced, cut and processed.
Photography: Nour El Refai | elrefai.com | @nourelrefai