Milan Expo 2015
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The conceptual master plan for the Milan World Exposition 2015 resulted from the teamwork of five architects: Jacques Herzog, Mark Rylander, Ricky Burdett, Stefano Boeri, and William McDonough. Working with the theme “feeding the planet, energy for life”, the exposition will be a planetary botanical garden that will “feed Milan literally, spiritually and intellectually.” The architects created the framework for the exposition and organized an orthogonal bridge that contains an agrofood park and is surrounded by water ways.
More about the new concept after the break.
The idea for this planetary botanical garden is based on the Ancient Roman urban plans that included twin axes (the cardo and the decumanus) with a central forum. The two axis create a grid of spaces where some will be developed by the exposition, and other spaces will be give to individual countries to design.
In the new plan, the first axis includes a 1.4 kilometres long boulevard where visitors can walk or bicycle, and a second axis that will reflect the geometries of the surrounding farmlands. In place of a forum, a large planetary table will allow people to rest, while looking at the pavilion and sampling the food produced and offered by the different countries represented.
The five architects also rethought the water ways “to focus attention and resources on the reclamation and redevelopment of public and municipal farmsteads.” The network of canals that run through the countryside will extend the living energy of the expo site to areas beyond its immediate boundaries.
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credits:
conceptual master plan – feeding the planet, energy for life
by herzog & de meuron, jacques herzog
london school of ecomics, ricky burdett
stefano boeri architetti, stefano boeri
william mcdonough + partners, william mcdonough
WOW!! Thanks for those architects. Very beautiful. Invest in the garden is sucha great thing for this world :)
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is the scale of things a bit off?
To bad the world is going to end in 2012
Hope there is not too much wind in Milan… I like the simplicity of the canopy by the way, but the master plan could be even better without the water pond which isolate the exhibition site from the surrounding… And why does it need to be a “planetary” table and a “planetary” botanical garden ?
“feeding the planet, energy for life”
beautiful theme that can result in many opportunities
nice but
where is Ligresti?
so similar to the mexican chinampas that were built so many years ago that i´m shocked!!!
well developed idea
hope it does not rain in milan.
Totally love this idea and project, once again H&dM showing their life altering skills through great applied design.
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We have been in Presentation Meeting of Masterplan, have a look at the event review:
http://www.expoholic.it/expo-2015-spa/presentato-il-masterplan-lexpo-si-avvicina
They do not even find land to build expo Center. I don’t think Milano is not capeable to Host 2015 Expo.Not enough time to build it.Good Luck to them..
what a beautiful world.good luck…
11:54 PM Sep 9th
Reading: "Milan Expo 2015 | ArchDaily" (http://twitthis.com/r5526j)
6:54 AM Sep 10th
Reading: "http://www.archdaily.com/34772/milan-expo-2015/" (http://twitthis.com/r5526j)
1:28 AM Mar 11th
とても自然 Milan Expo 2015 | ArchDaily http://t.co/AcqRZem via @archdaily
4:45 AM Mar 11th
RT @junjitanigawa: そうだよね、これからはこうだよ。Milan Expo 2015のはなし。http://j.mp/fPccJw
10:07 AM Jul 6th
>> bet kaut ko starp romiešu pilsētu un botānisko dārzu, ko pārsedz vienādas auduma nojumes – http://t.co/t6u2UJh, http://t.co/YnLDcBi