The eco-friendly Purple Silkworm shapes up for the Shanghai Expo 2010

The Purple Silkworm is a dream come thru. We’ve heard of the Japanese planning this for the Shanghai Expo 2010. Well guess what, its being built just for that. Watching blue-prints come to life, especially for a structure like this brings tears in one’s eyes. The Purple Silkworm obtains its name because of its shape and design, resembling the breathing organism. It efficiently uses natural resources to the fullest to breathe life into the Expo. Using solar energy collection batteries and a double-layer membrane that filters sunshine, the silkworm will also showcase environment friendly, eco-friendly and energy saving technologies to visitors along with a few performances by some highly intelligent robots.

The structure makes the Expo even more worth visiting. Also known and formally nicknamed in Japanese as the ‘zi can dao’, this pavilion will house the Expo this year.





[Designboom]