photography © Andrea Bosio

all images courtesy of Archilovers page of France Pavilion

France Pavilion takes place with its massive wooden structure at Expo Milano 2015 which will be running to 31st October 2015.The pavilion displays itself as a megastructure of new marketplace under the theme of Expo Milano 2015:''Feeding the Planet,Energy for Life''

A total building space of more than 2,000 square metres, including 1,100 square metres of conceptually designed sets.Represented by an inverted landscape, illustrating the French identity born from its territories, materialised in the Pavilion through a ceiling landscape that will feature a set design with ‘four pillar’ messages of France.A spectacular, dramatic work, featuring innovative graphics and a primary, elementary foundation:natural wood.

photography © Andrea Bosio

The symbolism of the France Pavilion:

-French know-how is embraced by a wooden structure, in its most advanced shape, standing free form, with invisible assemblages and complex constructed geometry,

-It represents a model of sustainability and economy, as it will be removable and capable of being reassembled and all the wood will be locally produced from the forests of the Jura mountains.

photography © Andrea Bosio

The France Pavilion has an adopted theme of “an open air market place” - remember that the global food challenge concerns, first of all, cities, since 80% of the population will be urban by 2050 - a large roof provides shade, while the pillars support the building and the exposition, providing room for its messages, and light and air that brings coolness in the heat of the summer!

Scenography that captures the power and essence of the architecture.The market hall exhibits a great, evocative power:originally a place for meeting to exchange goods between people from the countryside and the city, the market hall becomes a place of gathering the energy spiralling around the vital question: “How do we feed the planet?”

photography © Andrea Bosio

The France Pavilion embraces visitors and tells them a story...Visitors enter the space of the France Pavilion via a vast, lush garden and labyrinth - stimulated by intoxicating scents, vivid colours and extraordinary shapes - three exhibitions dedicated successively to grain crops and livestock, polyculture, and vegetable growing landscapes, which have been adapted to the theme.Located throughout the queuing area, this universe will express the diversity of landscapes shaped by agriculture.

photography © Giancarlo Tovo

At the bottom of the garden, the France Pavilion stands tall as a reclaimed land harbouring an inverted landscape and an extensive, protective and mysterious cave, all at once: the exposition.Upon entry, the initiatory path lays the foundation for raising global food issues. The first perception is the profusion of ideas, unbridled inventiveness, abundance, constructive optimism…

photography © Giancarlo Tovo

photography © XTU architects

photography © XTU architects

photography © XTU architects

photography © XTU architects

photography © XTU architects

photography © XTU architects

photography © XTU architects

photography © XTU architects

photography © XTU architects

> via Archilovers page of France Pavilion,france-milan-2015.fr/en/