The Garden of Knowledge is the spatial expression of Uzbekistan’s cultural identity, from its ancient knowledge and traditional heritage to its pioneering innovations and technology for the future.

Sensory and timeless, the journey inside the Pavilion follows the life cycle of a garden. It begins in the darkness of the soil where planting, irrigation and germination of seeds takes place – and culminates in the blossoming of a garden with trees rising into the skies.

The starting point is the earth itself: at the Pavilion entrance, a curved sweep of bricks and flows into a transitionary corridor of earthen walls, where shifting reflections of water imprint the handcrafted soil surfaces that wrap around visitors.

This leads into The Soil – the foundation of the exhibition. Here, in a curved circular space with a subterranean atmosphere are rows of minimalist cube plinths made of soil – upon which stories of Uzbekistan unfold on high-tech LED sheet surfaces.
The exhibits – from dioaramas to 3D models – explore themes of innovation, sustainability and education, with a colourful catalogue of projects including a near zero-energy house, the green train network and renewable energy production initiatives.

Spanning the earthen walls is a visual horizontal panorama. Flowing like a river, it depicts a  high-tech double-layered stream of narratives, illustrations and images – of ancient monuments, futuristic urban cities, vivid natural landscapes.

Centre stage is The Incubator: after an immersion in Uzbekistan’s knowledge, visitors step inside an immersive high-tech dome-like space and a 360-degree sensory and visual narrative begins, as the platform (its technology used for the first time in Japan) slowly rises up from the ground.

Inside, an exquisite medley of animated imagery, sounds and stories unfolds all around –there are glimpses of the dancing geometry of ancient motifs, the architectural beauty of historic Registan public square in Samarkand city, powerfuls sweep of desert landscape and sustainable modern cities reimagined for the future.  

The journey from soil to skies culminates in the fertile flowering of pomegranate trees all around, marking the rising platform’s arrival at the apex of the pavilion.

Here, the conceptual expression of a garden shifts into focus. A forest-like scattering of dozens of wooden pillars, crafted from trees sustainably sourced from across the Japanese archipelago, rise into the sky from a gently undulating base surface, reflecting the flow of the natural world.

It is a garden that creates a pause, to process, reflect and savour the moment – as Uzbekistan’s wealth of ancient wisdom and cultural heritage transforms, from soil and seeds to fruits and forest, into a future shaped by innovation, pioneering ideas and world-class sustainability.