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  • "ITALIA" PAVILION FOR EXPO 2015

EXPO 2015: “Feeding the Planet Energy for Life”

Project data

  • Status
    Competition
  • Year
    2013
  • Tipology
    Multipurpose complex
  • Location
    Expo Area at Rho/Pero – MIlan, Italy > map
  • Client
    EXPO 2015 S.p.a.
  • Budget
    40 milion €
  • Total Area/Surface/Volume
    24.000 sq m
  • Awards
    International competition, 4th place ex-aequo, special mention

Description

Bellini is fully aware of the new tasks and the new themes of 21st-century architecture: appreciation of and regard for the “matter” and constructions materials, the fragility of the Earth and of nature as a finite and no more inexhaustible resource, the need for freedom and linguistic concision in expressing ideas. This awareness flourishes ever more frequently and pushed by the occasion, finds in his proposal for the Italy Pavilion a moment of synthesis: “The project for the Italy Pavilion – Mario Bellini explains, condenses in its architectural essence all the expectations and needs for representation and innovation of the host nation and responds explicitly to the general theme of the next Universal Exposition: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”.

The project concerns Palazzo Italia and the series of four buildings that flank the the cardo, the north/south axis of the EXPO exhibition area. Palazzo Italia is a building of four floors with a compact, almost square floor plan with a small, elongated internal courtyard.
The buildings along the cardo are buildings in line with two floors.

Palazzo Italia
“The building, like the leaves of trees that react to light, features a photosensitive skin capable of producing clean energy from sunlight. The courtyard, conceived as a domestic and familiar space, develops from the sky to the earth with hundreds of hanging vases where the Mediterranean spices of Italian cuisine are cultivated: a ‘heart’ which like a tree brings nourishment to the light of the sky, a sensorial heart in which the identity of the host nation may be recognized”.

The Products of the Cardo
“The products that define Italy’s presence on the Cardo are characterised by a high degree of visual and physical permeability, and by a strong architectonic image that recalls the presence of a ‘shady wood’ that mixes with the fruit trees and the arbours that define the character of the adjacent Horti”.

Credits

COMPETITION: 2013

Architects
Mario Bellini Architects

Design Team
Mario Bellini, Maurizio Di Lauro, Raffaele Cipolletta

Project Team
Flavia Sandelewski
Elisabetta Griffero
Luo Jia Xu
Luca Bosetti
Alessandro Zufferli

Consultants
Favero e Milan S.p.a.
Ing. Sandro Favero
Ing. Federico Zaggia
Ing. Devid Iannicello

Prisma Engineering S.r.l.
Ing. Luciano Viero
Ing. Daniela Scarpa
Ing. Nicola Sacchetto

Gallery

EXPO 2015: “Feeding the Planet Energy for Life” – Photo gallery

Competition “ITALIA” pavilion for EXPO 2015 (© Mario Bellini Archive)

Competition “ITALIA” pavilion for EXPO 2015 (© Mario Bellini Archive)

Competition “ITALIA” pavilion for EXPO 2015 (© Mario Bellini Archive)

Competition “ITALIA” pavilion for EXPO 2015 (© Mario Bellini Archive)

Competition “ITALIA” pavilion for EXPO 2015 (© Mario Bellini Archive)

Competition “ITALIA” pavilion for EXPO 2015 (© Mario Bellini Archive)

Competition “ITALIA” pavilion for EXPO 2015 (© Mario Bellini Archive)

Competition “ITALIA” pavilion for EXPO 2015 (© Mario Bellini Archive)

Competition “ITALIA” pavilion for EXPO 2015 (© Mario Bellini Archive)

Competition “ITALIA” pavilion for EXPO 2015 (© Mario Bellini Archive)

Competition “ITALIA” pavilion for EXPO 2015 (© Mario Bellini Archive)

Competition “ITALIA” pavilion for EXPO 2015 (© Mario Bellini Archive)

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