Project Description
Reflective cladding creates the visual of water amid patches of rice in this cluster, which is devoted to the global production of the grain. The site is peppered with mobile equipment, the designers say, that can serve as seating, displays, and other surfaces while also referencing the rice sheaves that populate the fields during a harvest.
FROM MILAN EXPO 2015:
The Cluster will appear like a rice field out of scale in which it will
be possible to recognize the textures of the fields but also the colours, the aromas
and shades that accompany the growth of rice and the passing of time. The
Cluster will hide a further "informative passage" composed of data
and curiosities ready to be unveiled and discovered by visitors step after
step. Water, the recurring theme of rice fields and symbolic conjunction
between sky and earth, here will become a filter creating uniformity while hiding
the lack of homogeneity, a weak “cover” of an informative landscape
disseminated among the streets of the Cluster. Behind the Pavilions, the
landscape will become artificial: the coloured cement ground will keep the
agricultural texture, while “cristalizing” the chromatic scansion. Also the
mobile equipment scattered in the Cluster will formally call to mind the
typical sheaves that populate rice fields; at the same time, they will
determine a hybrid use of the space becoming tables, kitchens, exhibition
modules, but also creative laboratories never seen before involving visitors.
The Universities that collaborated
with the Politecnico di Milano in designing the concept are the Tongji
University of Shanghai (China) and the National University of Civil Engineering
of Hanoi (Vietnam).
Countries belonging to this cluster:
– Bangladesh
– Cambodia
– Laos
– Myanmar
– Sierra Leone