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EXPO 2015 italian pavillon
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STATUS
Concept
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
$50M - 100M
The project for "Palazzo Italia” and the pavilions of the "Cardo" is based on the rediscovery of the "earth".
Earth is the element from which grow up the fruits that are the richness of our country.
Earth’s rediscovery means upgrading of this primary value as starting point of a new economy of sustainability and return to the "territory" and to his care. A territory that can be a new low-impact growth engine.
The relaunch of our country will include in the incoming years the discovery of the territory and economies that have grown in harmony with the landscape such as agriculture and this will mean enhancing our production model focused on biodiversity and diversification of farming while respecting the genius of the place and its tradition.
The contribution that Italy can lead to the theme of Expo 2015 - Feeding the Planet, Energy for life - is to promote the healthy development model and revive attention to the "earth ".
Our Palazzo Italia, which will be the representative institutional italian office for the Expo and will be afterwards transformed into a center of excellence and an incubator of ideas and creativity, is a “lamp” which stands on the Expo masterplan as raised by a plow, it stands as a manifesto of the rediscovery of the earth as a true raw material on which put our energies to feed the planet.
Earth and territory, biodiversity, virtuous cycles of production-consumption- disposal are for us the soul of the project.
IL PALAZZO ITALIA
A deep excavation marks the area of intervention as the building footprint which is raised from the ground level as an updown-clod.
A ramp leads to the lower level where there is a large square for events.
The whole building is raised from the ground and suspended on a single pylon placed in an asymmetric position, inside which are placed the accesses and the vertical connections.
The Palazzo Italia is our "land": the entire building is covered with transparent containers that host and show the lands of Italy. Every town in Italy, and the community will be expected to contribute with a symbolic amount of land to the construction of the building and to create a "pattern" of colors, diversity of accents and tones that our lands have all together.
The building shows the earth but also the biodiversity of which our country is a carrier. On the visitable garden roof will be planted a variety of farming and this will be the conclusion of a visit that makes the building accessible. At the base of the "Palace" like roots of a clod of earth will sprout interactive tools throught video images introducing the cycles of each farming planted on the roof garden and will explain directly the performance.
The building has a double value: first is the institutional home of the Italian authorities present at the Expo and vehicle of functions and official events; second is to represent Italy and its tradition.
For this reason in our project the building is half-open pavilion for visitors and half headquarters. This implies a good degree of integration of the "Palazzo" in the
national pavilions circuit by creating a narrative that engages visitors letting them know a side of Italy still unexplored.
The multitude of visitors will have free access to the covered square, the first floors of the building and the roof garden and will interact with multimedia content that become part of the building.
The tour of the building will have the flavor of a "rediscovery." In fact, sustainability is not a new strategy in human progress but rather a policy that comes from the past and dictated by the economics of traditional agriculture from which are generated italian best products doc and dop.
What's new in a sustainable economy that is emerging from the past is the new approach to the production cycle and the new concept of reuse and optimization of the products resulting after consumption. The building will be a performance also of this fundamental aspect of the cycle due to the functional use of biomass through an auxiliary implant for biomass energy production, which closes a virtuous cycle in which the products of the earth return to it, as if the human impact would not arise in opposition but would go along with life that nature regenerates continuously.
Linked to the concept of energy and of the life cycle, also the theme of water is foregrounded. The water is the source from which the building draws to feed, through a geothermal heat pump system with ground water, the plants of the "clod".
The first level of "Palazzo Italy" is a free plan for exhibitions. The second level is still home a space dedicated to exhibitions and music halls while the last two levels contain office spaces and institutional meeting rooms, and only the first two levels are accessible to the visitors of the Expo together with the roof-garden where will also be placed the restaurant.
Particular attention is given to the separation of the flows according to different use. Access to the building is from the largest covered square for major flows of visitors. This helps to provide protection for visitors which can stand for hours protected from adverse weather conditions.
Mobile stairs and elevators bring to the upper floors.
From the ground level another elevators group is reserved for institutional authorities as well as directly serving the restaurant on the rooftop terrace. Looking at the future conversion of the building into a center of excellence is a design objective to set it up as a vertical campus with complementary functions on different levels and a strong spatial continuity between them. To this purpose was designed a multi-height that cross all the levels, ending with a large skylight in the roof that brings natural light into the building and down to the covered square.
Palazzo Italia is conceived as a large compact block with a courtyard distributed in modular plates that make up the various levels.
The different functions are located on four floors and are composed in a modular logic that at the time of conversion will facilitate the internal redistricting repositioning internal vertical partitions according to the new functional program. The entire building was thought of as a series of suspended plates.
The roof garden is arranged on different levels in order to achieve a " natural landscape" variegated where different farming coexist together with a terrace, a restaurant, and a central space for visitors consists of a terraced steps from which you can observe "what is happening inside the building at the floors below" simply looking out the skylight.
Earth is the element from which grow up the fruits that are the richness of our country.
Earth’s rediscovery means upgrading of this primary value as starting point of a new economy of sustainability and return to the "territory" and to his care. A territory that can be a new low-impact growth engine.
The relaunch of our country will include in the incoming years the discovery of the territory and economies that have grown in harmony with the landscape such as agriculture and this will mean enhancing our production model focused on biodiversity and diversification of farming while respecting the genius of the place and its tradition.
The contribution that Italy can lead to the theme of Expo 2015 - Feeding the Planet, Energy for life - is to promote the healthy development model and revive attention to the "earth ".
Our Palazzo Italia, which will be the representative institutional italian office for the Expo and will be afterwards transformed into a center of excellence and an incubator of ideas and creativity, is a “lamp” which stands on the Expo masterplan as raised by a plow, it stands as a manifesto of the rediscovery of the earth as a true raw material on which put our energies to feed the planet.
Earth and territory, biodiversity, virtuous cycles of production-consumption- disposal are for us the soul of the project.
IL PALAZZO ITALIA
A deep excavation marks the area of intervention as the building footprint which is raised from the ground level as an updown-clod.
A ramp leads to the lower level where there is a large square for events.
The whole building is raised from the ground and suspended on a single pylon placed in an asymmetric position, inside which are placed the accesses and the vertical connections.
The Palazzo Italia is our "land": the entire building is covered with transparent containers that host and show the lands of Italy. Every town in Italy, and the community will be expected to contribute with a symbolic amount of land to the construction of the building and to create a "pattern" of colors, diversity of accents and tones that our lands have all together.
The building shows the earth but also the biodiversity of which our country is a carrier. On the visitable garden roof will be planted a variety of farming and this will be the conclusion of a visit that makes the building accessible. At the base of the "Palace" like roots of a clod of earth will sprout interactive tools throught video images introducing the cycles of each farming planted on the roof garden and will explain directly the performance.
The building has a double value: first is the institutional home of the Italian authorities present at the Expo and vehicle of functions and official events; second is to represent Italy and its tradition.
For this reason in our project the building is half-open pavilion for visitors and half headquarters. This implies a good degree of integration of the "Palazzo" in the
national pavilions circuit by creating a narrative that engages visitors letting them know a side of Italy still unexplored.
The multitude of visitors will have free access to the covered square, the first floors of the building and the roof garden and will interact with multimedia content that become part of the building.
The tour of the building will have the flavor of a "rediscovery." In fact, sustainability is not a new strategy in human progress but rather a policy that comes from the past and dictated by the economics of traditional agriculture from which are generated italian best products doc and dop.
What's new in a sustainable economy that is emerging from the past is the new approach to the production cycle and the new concept of reuse and optimization of the products resulting after consumption. The building will be a performance also of this fundamental aspect of the cycle due to the functional use of biomass through an auxiliary implant for biomass energy production, which closes a virtuous cycle in which the products of the earth return to it, as if the human impact would not arise in opposition but would go along with life that nature regenerates continuously.
Linked to the concept of energy and of the life cycle, also the theme of water is foregrounded. The water is the source from which the building draws to feed, through a geothermal heat pump system with ground water, the plants of the "clod".
The first level of "Palazzo Italy" is a free plan for exhibitions. The second level is still home a space dedicated to exhibitions and music halls while the last two levels contain office spaces and institutional meeting rooms, and only the first two levels are accessible to the visitors of the Expo together with the roof-garden where will also be placed the restaurant.
Particular attention is given to the separation of the flows according to different use. Access to the building is from the largest covered square for major flows of visitors. This helps to provide protection for visitors which can stand for hours protected from adverse weather conditions.
Mobile stairs and elevators bring to the upper floors.
From the ground level another elevators group is reserved for institutional authorities as well as directly serving the restaurant on the rooftop terrace. Looking at the future conversion of the building into a center of excellence is a design objective to set it up as a vertical campus with complementary functions on different levels and a strong spatial continuity between them. To this purpose was designed a multi-height that cross all the levels, ending with a large skylight in the roof that brings natural light into the building and down to the covered square.
Palazzo Italia is conceived as a large compact block with a courtyard distributed in modular plates that make up the various levels.
The different functions are located on four floors and are composed in a modular logic that at the time of conversion will facilitate the internal redistricting repositioning internal vertical partitions according to the new functional program. The entire building was thought of as a series of suspended plates.
The roof garden is arranged on different levels in order to achieve a " natural landscape" variegated where different farming coexist together with a terrace, a restaurant, and a central space for visitors consists of a terraced steps from which you can observe "what is happening inside the building at the floors below" simply looking out the skylight.
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