Expo 2020 Dubai: Step into a room full of real fog at Switzerland Pavilion

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Micro droplets of water cling to your hair and clothes once you enter the glass doors – but what is a little moisture in the face of hiking up the majestic Swiss Alps? It is chilly inside, pleasantly so, and bars of white light mark your elevated trek. But diving into this sea of fog also comes with a sense of trepidation. You cannot tell where you are headed.  Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3ivBFky  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #Expo2020 #Switzerland

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00:00Hello, my name is Ivan Funk. I'm Managing Partner of Pailprop Partner and I'm the designer of this pavilion.

00:05I think you can experience once you're sitting or standing in here, you see the visitors behind me.

00:11Everybody's going crazy with this extremely Instagrammable place here. So everybody wants

00:16to take a selfie on the red carpet in front of this mirrored surface and it's very interactive

00:23here actually. You'll get some umbrellas and you can stand in front of it and from different

00:28perspectives you can take selfies in the facade and that's also the title of the pavilion. It's

00:34about reflections, the double meaning obviously. So the mirrored facade but also thoughts from

00:39Switzerland. And Switzerland in here is laying down the red carpet for the visitor with a very

00:46bold statement I think, fitting to the expo in Dubai. It's not very discreet, it's very bold and

00:53that's not what usually Switzerland is. We are focusing on a very particular experience we have

01:00in Switzerland. During winter time we don't see the sun too often in the cities so people go to

01:06the mountains and while going to the mountains they have to travel through a sea of fog and

01:14once you are in the sea of fog it's a very mystical sensual experience, sometimes a bit scary but also

01:22beautiful. And once you exit the sea of fog that's just amazing because your eyes first have to adapt

01:27to the new brightness, you see all those top of the mountains, the light is beautiful with the sunrise

01:34and the sunset and you see the waving of the sea of fog above you. And this experience we brought

01:41from Switzerland to Dubai and we did this real. So we don't have like artificial fog, we have real

01:49fog just made by pure water like fog is made in in the nature actually. And the third act is the

01:56more urban and innovative part of Switzerland where we have a very artsy and experiential

02:05experience for the visitors. So this is the overall story and narration of the Swiss Pavilion.

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