ITALIAN PAVILION EXPO 2010 Shanghai

COMPETITION

The pavilion wants to reassume in its primary and absolute architectonic the Italian cultural tradition It is represented in the geometrical form of a rectangular parallelepiped lightly laid on a basin of “black” water, which recalls the great modern season of Italian architecture. The walls of this primary container, like its cover, are completely covered in slabs of shiny and opal white glass, a unique national product .The project also envisages on the four sides an outside “skin” built from a light metallic structure which will hold hundreds of wind energy micro generators.