Dubai 2020 Expo Entry Portals, Asif Khan UAE Structures, Gateway Architecture Images
Expo 2020 Entry Portals in Dubai
10 Feb 2020
Expo Entry Portals
Architect: Asif Khan Studio
Location: Dubai, UAE

Asif Khan, renowned British architecture studio, has designed the Expo Entry Portals, three spectacular gateways to Expo 2020 Dubai that will grant entry to visitors from 20 October. The structures are the first works to be unveiled from the studio?s design of more than six kilometres of Expo 2020 Public Realm.
Conceived in collaboration with Asif Khan, the portals are a futuristic exploration of the traditional ?mashrabiya”, an elegant design element used across the region to control light and airflow.

Each portal?s remarkable appearance comes from being woven entirely from strands of ultra-lightweight carbon fibre composite that lend incredible structural strength. This enables the ethereal portal structures to stand 21 metres high and 30 metres long, without any additional support. From afar the portals appear to be composed of translucent planes, which up close visitors discover are made from hundreds of fine lines of structure. The portals feature two vast doors ? each door is 21 metres high and 10.5 metres wide ? which will be opened every morning of the 173 days of Expo 2020 Dubai in a symbolic act of welcoming the world. They lead visitors to tree-filled arrival courtyards, also designed by Khan, in each of the three Expo 2020 districts: Opportunity, Mobility an...