Expo Milano 2015: German Pavilion

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Germany wants to present at Expo Milano 2015 with the Pavilion “Fields of Ideas“. It’s a pavilion which covers 5,000 square meters and is one of the largest of the site. The design and implementation is entrusted to the working group formed by the companies Arge Milla & Partner, Schmidhuber and Nüssli Deutschland. The cultural program of the Pavilion will be developed instead dall’agenzia Voss + Fischer. The German Pavilion at Milano  Expo 2015 wants to have a leading role by touching very important issues. Germany looks like a landscape alive and full of ideas generated by a new and respectful towards nature.

The structure has an open architecture that invites all visitors to be a part of the structure and to interact with it. The Pavilion has a surface slightly uphill where are translated into architecture the German landscape of fields and meadows. In fact, in this area we have been installed by “The Growth of Ideas” that rise up, leading to the plateau landscape. The visitor starts walking along the ramp to a pleasant journey sensory characterized by glimpses of great effect also generated by the play of light and shadow caused by the covering of leaves textiles. The other possibility is set out in the internal path where the visitor comes into contact with innovative ideas that Germany proposes the theme of Expo Milano 2015, then tackles the major challenges you will face in the future to feed the entire planet.

It was decided to use different local wood to give a more traditionalist feature to the Pavilion, giving a

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characteristic note. The landscape of fields and meadows turns into a wooden roof walkable where wood is intended to indicate the feeling that Germany wanted to express in this project towards materials with low environmental impact that are characterized by a balanced budget of CO2. The facade of the pavilion uses a horizontal lamellar structure . Contrast element is represented by the steel structures of  shell membrane in the form of plant that protrude upward. Steel has allowed good ease of construction, while the innovative ways are the future model of nature.