ITALIAN PAVILION EXPO 2015 BY NEMESI

The winning project of the International Design Competition of the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2015 is extremely ambitious and it definitely lives up to represent the Country.

It will interpret the contemporary Italian culture, including both the Italian Palace (about 12 thousand sq.m.) and the other pavilions located along the Cardo, which will host a variety of exhibitions and institutions activities: an avenue that stretches for 325 meters.

The Pavilion will thus be the showcase of Italy, a true flagship store of the Italian excellences. But it will also be a place where visitors can experience the emotions and the magic of a journey through our beautiful Country, with its lifestyle worldwide recognizable.

Nemesis &Partners Srl in Rome, Proger SpA of Pescara and BMS Progetti Srl of Milan wanted the architecture design of the Italian Pavilion to be represented as a community gathered together around a square: the emptiness houses the symbolic centerpiece of the exhibition space and gives shape to the volumes of architecture.

The volumetric articulation of the project of Palazzo Italia is based on four main blocks, arranged around an empty central square (connected by bridge-elements), hosting the main functions: Exhibition Area, Auditorium, Offices and Meeting Rooms.

The project develops the idea of ​​an architectural body as much as possible energy independent, to guarantee the maximum balance between production and consumption of energy.

Louis Godart, Direc­tor for the Con­ser­va­tion of Artis­tic Her­itage of the Ital­ian Pres­i­dent, has described the project for the Ital­ian pavil­ion at Expo 2015 as “An ode to joy, a tree of life, a uni­ver­sal cul­tural sym­bol.”

From project to Expo 2015” exhi­bi­tion at the Quiri­nal Palace, which launched on 7th Novem­ber and will remain open until 15th Jan­u­ary 2014. The build­ing, which expected to be fin­ished by March 2014, is to cost  €44 mil­lion, plus a €14 mil­lion, enor­mously strik­ing, tree-like roof.