International Conference | Bari- Lecce, Italy Session V- VI
THE PAVILLIONS OF EXPO 2015 IN MILAN, AS A PRIVILEGED OBSERVATORY ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION IN ALL LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD
Alberto La Tegola1
1 Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Italy, alberto. lategola @ unisalento. it
Abstract
The organization of EXPO 2015 in the city of Milan has prompted massive organizational efforts to set up a new fair district in one of the largest Italian cities. The urban layout of the metropolitan city has been redesigned in a part thereof to connect the exhibition grounds to the network of infrastructures of Milan city. The urban design of the headquarters of the world expo will accommodate all participating nations event in two different ways. One of these allows you to self build a pavilion on the areas provided by EXPO 2015. In particular, as part of the tools that regulate participation in the Event, the Special Regulations envisage the acceptance of a series of environmental commitments, including the adoption of measures for the prevention of pollution and proper management of any environmental impacts associated with the construction and setting up of the pavilions and exhibition structures. The provisions contained in the Special Regulations are accompanied by a series of environmental criteria added by Expo 2015 such as the Guidelines for the construction and dismantling of self-built pavilions for the Official Participants. Expo 2015 has also drawn up two Specific guidelines aimed at stimulating and promoting the active involvement of Participants in achieving the objective of Sustainability of the Exposition: the Guidelines Green Procurement and Guidelines Sustainable Solutions. The guidelines for the adoption of sustainable solutions in the design, construction, dismantling and reuse of structures to be built for the event were a mandatory and necessary manual for all the designers of the pavilions for different countries. Through this paper you can see how the concepts of sustainability and recyclability have been interpreted in the language of forty designers from different countries, all animated, at the same time, for the challenge of representing their countries through their state of the art of architecture technology, of their national culture.
Keywords
Holistic concept of sustainability in architecture, Expo 2015, eco-sustainable materials and building technologies, eco-sustainable concept.
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