The NTT Pavilion expresses a world in which binary oppositions—self and other, human and nature, real and digital—dissolve into a seamless continuum. By rendering the behaviors of people, nature, and digital elements as particle-like presences that intermingle freely, the pavilion seeks to awaken visitors’ memories and generate deeply moving experiences. Its aim is to become Architecture Draped in Emotion, leaving an enduring resonance long after the visit.

The pavilion adopts a dispersed arrangement of square buildings, eliminating the idea of a front façade and creating a park-like environment that can be experienced without entering the structures. A tent-like carbon fiber wire system, using thread-like tension members, minimizes steel consumption and contributes to CO₂ reduction. Spanning between the buildings, the wires form gentle, calming spaces that exist between interior and exterior.

Two types of fabric drape the architecture, revealing subtle nuances of wind, light, and nature. Slightly away from the buildings, approximately 30,000 silver fabrics with bit patterns allow wind to pass while creating dappled-light effects reminiscent of sunlight filtering through trees. Along the exterior walls, about 170,000 colorful, plant-derived fabrics in 30 hues invite children to translate their emotions and impressions into color by tying the fabrics together. These overlapping layers continually transform, expressing emotional diversity.

When visitors touch the carbon fiber wires, they resonate like plucked strings. The silver fabrics’ wind-driven movements are captured and analyzed in real time, generating sounds that respond to their motion. Inside the pavilion, visitors’ emotions—such as surprise or joy—are analyzed by AI, causing the outer silver fabrics to vibrate as if projecting inner feelings outward. These vibrations also produce sound through image analysis. Through the resonance of these diverse behaviors, space and experience blend, allowing the pavilion to move like a living organism that intertwines people, nature, architecture, and digital expression.