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It feels like someway the lack of time for designing and the necessity to improve a way to make to
construction fast and easy to dismount made some designers forget the principal theme of Expo
2015. Data showed the massive use of artificial and heavyweight materials, while the opposite was
required.
The introduction of a new way of thinking and designing worrying about eco-sustainability is a
revolution and, as a revolution, it needs a radical change in the approach to design itself.
The nations spoke of sustainable constructions in a common language but this language
must grow up and reach a new awareness and sensibleness to the topics it discuss about. This
EXPO 2015 should have been a great chance to start speaking in this aware and sensible language, but actually it looks just like a lost opportunity to fully explore this theme, although at the
same time probably Expo has successfully transmit to the public of non-experts the concept of
Sustainable Architecture.

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SANSOM M. and AVERY N., Reuse and recycling rates of UK steel demolition arisings. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, Volume 167, Issue 3, 2014.
LEY J., An environmental and material flow analysis of the UK steel construction sector, DEng thesis submitted to the
University of Wales, 2003
Figure 1: Palazzo Italia, expo2015.org , 2015
Figure 2: Detail of Japan façade, expo2015.org , 2015
Figure 3: Vietnam pavilion, expo2015.org , 2015
Figure 4: USA and Israel pavilions, expo2015.org , 2015
Figure 5: Thailand pavilion, expo2015.org , 2015
Figure 6: Qatar pavilion, expo2015.org , 2015
Figure 7: Argentina pavilion, expo2015.org , 2015
Figure 8: End of life scenarios, steelconstruction.info , 2015

The pavilions of Expo 2015 in Milan

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