Product Showcase
Shanghai World Expo – the Taiwan Pavilion
Pitch:20mm / 30mm / 50mm
Spherical Diameter:16m
Installation Time:Jan., 2010
The sky lantern-shaped exterior symbolizes “hopes” and “prayers” towards the future. The LED display surrounding “The Heart of Taiwan” is a creation of SAVC, part of the Taiwan Pavilion construction team. SAVC, with 27 years of experience, assigned our top R&D team to tackle the technically-demanding design. The design is challenging for four reasons. Firstly, the Heart of Taiwan measures 16 meters in diameter and weighs up to 130 tons. The exterior display has to be lightweight to prevent damage to the design and flexible enough to mold to the shape of the globe. SAVC employed eight different kinds of weight- and flexibility-appropriate LEDs, tens of thousands of point contacts, and various settings all over the surface of the globe to achieve this result. Secondly, the multiple displays must be able to display synchronized as well as independent images. SAVC’s controller centralizes the synchronization and individual display controls in a single server, effectively simplifying the process.