During the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the UAE National Olympic Committee welcomed visitors into an immersive experience of UAE culture and heritage.

Located in the 10 metre-high atrium of Pavillon Cambon Capucines in Paris, Stage One was commissioned to manufacture and install six themed rooms, VIP section and entrance hall for the UAE House exhibition.

We first laid a sub-floor of timber pallets skimmed with fire rated chipboard. Boundary walls were formed with timber scenic flats, wrapped in a white fire-rated cotton fabric. Additional interior walls and ceiling panels were constructed using walnut-stained timber, their slats interlaced with white paper.

In the welcoming area, Al Majlis, dioramas depicting UAE emblems adorned the floor and were suspended from the ceiling by a system of Unistrut, Zebedee nuts, threaded eyebolts and wire.

Al Liwan, The Place of Connection, featured timber flooring interspersed with white topography, MDF layers raised with separator dowels. Large-scale screens were housed in walnut stained 1” x 1” timber, suspended above ground by a steel frame. The walls incorporated dioramas, multiple polycarbonate panels, each printed with its own graphic that when lit from behind collectively portrayed an image or told a story.

The Play area projected interactive versions of century-old UAE games onto the vinyl floor below, with tiered bleachers opposite softly illuminated from a shadow gap between each level. Leaving the exhibition visitors experienced the Dukkan, the shop, for which we manufactured several pieces of corresponding walnut-stained timber furniture.