EXPO 2017 , Astana/ Kasachstan

Auslober/Organizer
National Company Astana EXPO-2017 Astana

Wettbewerbsaufgabe/Competition assignment
On November 2012 Astana was chosen by the International Exhibitions Bureau (BIE) as the venue for the International Specialized Exhibition EXPO 2017. According to preliminary estimates exhibition will gather together more tahn 100 participatin states and 10 international organizations. Around 2-3 million people will visit the international pavilions from June to September 2017.
The theme proposed by Kazakhstan to host the International Eshibition is „Future Energy and its impact in our lives“.
The total area of the designed object is 173,4 ha, out of which 25 ha corresponds to the actual exhibition center, while the territory of 148 ha will accommodate housing projects, socio-cultural, education and health-care facilities, shopping centers, parks and boulevards. The approximate area of the exhibition pavilions will be 118.620 m2, service area 95.400 m2 and housing 686.465 m2. The construction of the Expo-City is planned in the Esil district.
The symbol of the EXPO 2017 will be the Kazakhstan Pavilion, built on several floors in the form of a sphere with the whole area accounting to 24.000 m2. The pavilion s located in the center of the EXPO-City and is surrounded by the International Theme and Corporate Pavilions.
The Exhibition zone includes the following main pavilions:
Kazakhstan Pavilion 24.000 m2
Theme Pavilions „Wold Energy“/„Energy for life“/Energy for all“/„My future energy“ approx. 4.000 m2 each with the whole quadrature being 16.000 m2
the share of international pavilions 95.000 m2
Performance arts Center 14.000 m2
Corporate Pavilions 9.000 m2
Energy Best Practice Area 3.500 m2
Congress Center 42.000 m2
Partks at the EXPO site 72.000 m2
Parks in EXPO-City 313.000 m2
Green buffer 175.000 m2 and a Parking Area designed for 10.000 cars.

Weitere Information/Further information
www.expo2017astana.com/en/competition