Project by: Montreal, Canada

Design: Montreal’s exhibit will be a 500-m² pavilion that will feature a multimedia movie telling the story of how the Canadian city turned an industrial space formerly used as a landfill into the city’s largest park—set to be its largest green space in 2012.

The movie screen will be divided into 720 blocks, which can move up and down so that the screen fluctuates to create different effects during the five-minute movie.

Concept:  The story that will be illustrated at the pavilion will be how the 20,000-m² Saint Michel Environmental Complex in Montreal, which had been built in the 1960s to serve as a 70-m-deep landfill, was transformed into a green area for the citizens.

Early this year, the city government stopped the landfill operation and began planting grass and trees there.  The landfill’s rubbish was made into fertilizer, which was then given to residents in the area to plant flowers in their gardens.

The area now houses a sorting center for recyclable materials as well as the headquarters of the Cirque du Soleil.