City Life Magazine 12 | Page 49

CITY LIFE MAGAZINE Gastronomic Restaurant on roof are faced on a terraced area, where is possible to stay tasting specialties and to relax looking at the artificial lake full of plants and flowers, typical of France rural landscape. The cascade greening is one of the building theme, it invades wooden structure voids, both in façade and inside the vaults; the inner scenography is composed by many elements, in apparent contrast with each other but harmonized by colors, mass and message. The impressive vault roof is divided in different sections, each with its own topic sustaining gastronomic and culinary French variety. Another important element to show is about project plants, they are strictly organized following the Expo Guide Lines, which imposed to the architects to provide the lowest energy consumption, waste recycling and depuration. That’s will be the first Expo totally sustainable and reusable, without excessive waste and careful about CO2 impact mitigation. A policy followed by France using LED sources and a transparent and breathable membrane covering whole the pavilion, to avoid excessive heat loss. An assembly, disassembly, reassembly and sustainable architecture, those are themes involved in every Expo Milano 2015 pavilions. At the end of the event, only memories and the Italian Pavilion remains as memento of the most important event in early XXI century. 49