Mar. 10, 2005
TOYOTA GROUP HOLDS PAVILION OPENING CEREMONY
FOR EXPO 2005 AICHI,JAPAN
Tokyo – The Toyota Group*1 today held a purification and opening ceremony for the TOYOTA GROUP PAVILION at the 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan as construction of the Pavilion and preparation for the performance to be held inside have been completed.
The TOYOTA GROUP PAVILION, located in the Nagakute Area of the EXPO, features an exhibition theme of “The Dream, Joy and Inspiration of Mobility in the 21st Century.” It will be open during the 185 days of the EXPO, beginning March 25.
The Pavilion is built and operated as a “Natural-Cycle Earth Pavilion,” which is structured after the earth's own mechanisms of regeneration. The building is made with a steel frame that can be disassembled and reused, and the walls are made with renewable materials: recycled paper in the exterior walls and kenaf in part of the interior walls. In addition, energy to run the Pavilion will be provided by wind power. The amount of energy used by the Pavilion during the EXPO will be provided by a wind power generator constructed outside EXPO grounds in order to reduce CO2 emissions to zero.
A Welcome Show and a Main Show will be staged in the Main Theater of the Pavilion in a lively, approximately 30 minute performance. In the Welcome Show, a band called “CONCERO*2,” made up of Toyota Partner Robots, will open the show, followed by a rap performance by the DJ robot. In the Main Show, the single passenger “i-unit” concept vehicles and the mountable, walking robot “i-foot”, together with dancers and other performers, put on a mobility performance show in the midst of a 360 degree large screen which surrounds the audience.
Toyota Group will display many of its environmental technologies in the Techno Seeds Garden of the Approach Area, which has been made into a pleasant environment with flowers, rooftop greenery and mist machines. In the Technology Exhibition Area of the Exit Zone, Toyota Group presents an i-unit Showcase with video footage of i-units in motion, and innovative power sources of the near future, robot technology and the advanced elemental technology in the Techno Gallery.
The TOYOTA GROUP PAVILION, located in the Nagakute Area of the EXPO, features an exhibition theme of “The Dream, Joy and Inspiration of Mobility in the 21st Century.” It will be open during the 185 days of the EXPO, beginning March 25.
The Pavilion is built and operated as a “Natural-Cycle Earth Pavilion,” which is structured after the earth's own mechanisms of regeneration. The building is made with a steel frame that can be disassembled and reused, and the walls are made with renewable materials: recycled paper in the exterior walls and kenaf in part of the interior walls. In addition, energy to run the Pavilion will be provided by wind power. The amount of energy used by the Pavilion during the EXPO will be provided by a wind power generator constructed outside EXPO grounds in order to reduce CO2 emissions to zero.
A Welcome Show and a Main Show will be staged in the Main Theater of the Pavilion in a lively, approximately 30 minute performance. In the Welcome Show, a band called “CONCERO*2,” made up of Toyota Partner Robots, will open the show, followed by a rap performance by the DJ robot. In the Main Show, the single passenger “i-unit” concept vehicles and the mountable, walking robot “i-foot”, together with dancers and other performers, put on a mobility performance show in the midst of a 360 degree large screen which surrounds the audience.
Toyota Group will display many of its environmental technologies in the Techno Seeds Garden of the Approach Area, which has been made into a pleasant environment with flowers, rooftop greenery and mist machines. In the Technology Exhibition Area of the Exit Zone, Toyota Group presents an i-unit Showcase with video footage of i-units in motion, and innovative power sources of the near future, robot technology and the advanced elemental technology in the Techno Gallery.
*1 The Toyota Group consists of the following 16 corporations, which will participate in the exhibition:
Toyota Industries Corporation, Toyota Motor Corporation, Aichi Steel Corporation, Toyoda Machine Works Ltd., Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd, Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd., DENSO Corporation, Toyota Boshoku Corporation, Towa Real Estate Co., Ltd., Toyota Central Research & Development Laboratories Inc., Kanto Auto Works Ltd., Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Hino Motors, Ltd., Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. and Tokai Rika Co., Ltd.
*2 The name “CONCERO” combines the word “concert” with “robot.”
*2 The name “CONCERO” combines the word “concert” with “robot.”
1. The Natural-Cycle Earth Pavilion
Pavilion Exterior
The Wind Power Generator
* Electricity produced by the Tahara wind power generator will be sold to an electric company (CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.) and the Pavilion will get its electricity from the electric company. Although the Pavilion does not receive electricity directly from the wind power generator, it receives it indirectly in an arrangement referred to as mitigation. (This term refers to activities that reduce or compensate for negative impact on the environment by human activities.)
Pavilion Exterior
The Wind Power Generator
- The building is made with a steel frame that can be disassembled and reused. A newly developed friction joining construction method, which eliminates to a great extent the need to drill bolt holes or to weld, permits reuse of the structure after it is dismantled.
- In an effort to maximize use of renewable materials, the exterior walls are made with recycled paper, and some of the interior walls are made with kenaf, a material that the Group is commercializing.
- Following completion of EXPO 2005 AICHI, JAPAN, all Pavilion construction materials will be disassembled, separated and reused or recycled in order to achieve a goal of zero construction waste.
- Energy for the Pavilion will be provided by the renewable energy of wind power. A wind power generator installed off EXPO grounds (in Tahara City, Aichi Prefecture) will provide an amount of energy equal to the Pavilion's energy requirements in order to achieve a goal of zero CO2 emissions*.
* Electricity produced by the Tahara wind power generator will be sold to an electric company (CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.) and the Pavilion will get its electricity from the electric company. Although the Pavilion does not receive electricity directly from the wind power generator, it receives it indirectly in an arrangement referred to as mitigation. (This term refers to activities that reduce or compensate for negative impact on the environment by human activities.)
2. The Performance
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Welcome Show
Eight highly entertaining robots (seven music playing robots and one DJ robot in the band, CONCERO) invite visitors to enter a world of the future in the opening scene.
Welcome Show -
Main Show
Titled “MOVE, LIVE,” the Main Show features a production theme of “In Movement is Freedom. In Movement is Life.” In the show, single passenger “i-unit” concept vehicles and the mountable, walking robot “i-foot” join together with dancers and other performers to demonstrate the “Wonders of Living and Moving Freely” and the “New Relationship between People and Vehicles.”
MainShow
3. Techno Seeds Garden
Some of the Toyota Group’s environmental technology development activities are on display in four separate categories: “New Energy Applications and Energy Conservation,” “Use of Renewable Materials / Biotechnology & Greenery Technology,” “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” and “Reduction of Substances of Environmental Concern.”
Some of the Toyota Group’s environmental technology development activities are on display in four separate categories: “New Energy Applications and Energy Conservation,” “Use of Renewable Materials / Biotechnology & Greenery Technology,” “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” and “Reduction of Substances of Environmental Concern.”
| <Area> Theme | Exhibit Details |
| <Energy Garden>
New Energy Applications and Energy Conservation |
Includes stationary fuel cells that produce electricity with hydrogen from city gas and ambient oxygen, new energy applications using sunlight and adsorbent, reduction of energy consumption and energy conservation in plants. |
| <Bio-Art Garden>
Use of Renewable Materials / Biotechnology & Greenery Technology |
Includes renewable materials made from plants, such as kenaf and bioplastic, rooftop greenery and iron ion photosynthesis catalysts. |
| <The 3R Garden>
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle |
Includes efficient metal processing technology, filtration devices and reduction of resource consumption by recycling plant wastes, uniforms and waste water. |
| <Which One is
Clean? Garden>
Reduction of Substances of Environmental Concern |
Includes measures to eliminate lead, mercury and organic solvents, and to stop global warming. |
4. Technology Exhibition Area
An exhibition of concept vehicles and robot technology as well as innovative power sources for the near future and Toyota Group's advanced elemental technology.
An exhibition of concept vehicles and robot technology as well as innovative power sources for the near future and Toyota Group's advanced elemental technology.
| Exhibit Details | ||
| i-unit
Showcase |
“i-unit” Concept Vehicle |
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| Techno Gallery | Robot Technology |
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| Innovative Power Sources |
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| Advanced Elemental Technology |
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TOYOTA GROUP PAVILION official website:http://expo.toyota-g.com
